Personal
and Social
Well-Being
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Local
We nurture homegrown Art as a framework for activating change. Art can inspire people and revitalize communities to greater trust, satisfaction, and prosperity through connectedness to their community, place, and purpose.
Learn more about our projects: Draw Together, XYZ Atlas, REST Fest, The Theorists, Urban Echo, and Austin Brazilian Zouk and Lambada.
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NATional
Fisterra is a nexus of citizen/artists. We collaborate with people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
As a cultural partner for creativity and engagement, Fisterra Projects teams with experts and community organizations across the States to inspire change.
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Global
Fisterra's name derives from the edge of the known world. To that end, we are caring, polymath people with a range of artistic, scientific, technical, and societal interests working together on innovative projects that benefit society.
Our projects, artist residencies, performance and workshop tours provide opportunities for our global network to connect more deeply to each other, and the environment.
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Fisterra was founded by visual artist and entrepreneur, Jennifer Chenoweth. Austin Way featured Chenoweth’s project the XYZ Atlas on the cover of their “Art of the City” issue in 2016. Using community input to map the emotional experiences of residents of Austin, Chenoweth created a mixed-media installation called the “XYZ Atlas: the Hedonic Map of Austin”, which culminated in an exhibition at the high point of collective experience, Zilker Park in May of 2016. The Downtown Austin Alliance commissioned XYZ Atlas: Congress Avenue in 2017. Jennifer presented the XYZ Atlas at TEDMED 2017. In 2019, Chenoweth appointed collaborator Amy Morrow as Artistic Director in 2019 and then Executive Director of Fisterra December 2020.
our Vision
Fisterra promotes personal and social well-being on a community, national, and global scale through the arts, aided by science and technology. We are caring, polymath people with a range of interests working together on innovative projects that benefit society.
arT / science / Tech
Fisterra creates discourse between artists, physicists, psychologists, multi-media artists, and database architects. Previous Executive Director and founding board member, Dr. Vanston is an internationally recognized authority on technology forecasting for the communications industry. He has conducted and managed future-looking studies for communications and other high-tech industries for over thirty years. With his expertise, we collaborate with lauded artists such as Jason Akira Somma (Rolex Grant Award) and Zoe Scofield (Guggenheim Fellow).
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our Team
Founder & Treasurer
Jennifer Chenoweth makes contemporary art in any material that fits the idea, from drawings to large sculpture to interactive collaborative projects. Her recent collaborative project the XYZ Atlas reached a wide audience and culminated in a TEDMED talk released in 2018. She now curates the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel in Austin, Texas
to consider the purpose of our lives in the
context of a historical cemetery.
Jennifer
Executive Director
Amy Morrow is a master teacher, choreographer, and festival producer. She established The Theorists, a nexus of artist citizens who collaborate internationally to produce homegrown art. She manages projects for Draw Together, XYZ Atlas, REST Fest, and has produced 80+ movement workshops world-wide.
Amy
Draw Together, Urban Echo, and REST Fest Co-Director, Denver Gonzales, is an artist, community leader, engineer, visionary, and journalist. He serves on the board of organizations and councils supporting Austin's unhoused neighbors, leads Draw Together at Camp Esperanza, and was an artist in residency at the ESB-Mexican American Cultural Center, George Washington Carver Museum, and Doughtery
Arts Center
Denver
Board Member
Lloyd Weatherspoon is a rehabilitation specialist for Austin Travis County Integral Care, who specializes in working with clients from a vulnerable population, concerning: homelessness with mental health disorders, U.S. Military Veterans and also high functioning clients, who have severe or mild mental health illnesses.
Lloyd
Interim Treasurer
Wei Dai lives in Seattle, WA and works as a Sr. Customer Success Manager at Amazon. He also serves on the board of Grooving for Good. He graduated with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business and has an extensive social dance history in Texas, New York, California, and now Seattle.
Wei
Advisory Board
Marta Stefaniuk is a skilled Brand Strategist and Producer that specializes in digital marketing, experiential events and integrated media. Her strong capacity for entrepreneurial thinking, and years as a Creative Director, enable her to find innovative solutions to conquer, smooth out or jump over any obstacles her clients present.
Marta
Board Member
Mina Estrada is a ruminator MFA of dance and
has served as faculty at Temple University,
Old Dominion University, Christopher Newport University, and Drexel University. She served as Director of Artist Resources at the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and is currently directing Regina Klenjoski Dance Company producing concerts of great storytellers and
generous muses with Mother Nature.
Mina
Board Chair
Cindy Brio is the founder of Esandalo Comedy Project, collaborator with Latino Comedy Project, On and Off the State, and artist in residency at the ESB-Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, TX. She has expertise in Programs, Operations & Product Management; Marketing/ Communications, Process Improvement, Client Mgmt & Production. As a passionate storyteller, she dynamically
coaches creative projects.
Cindy
ABZL Project Director
As the lead organizer of Brazilian Zouk and hip hop dance events, Osei Bonsu brings a unique blend of artistic sensibility and technical proficiency to our team. His Ghanaian heritage, combined with his global experiences, including volunteer work with the UN World Food Programme in Ghana, focuses on cultural heritage and sustainably equitable exchanges.
Osei
Project Director
Gigi Ho is a Brazilian Zouk teacher and professional performer, certified by Renata Peçanha, a premiere dança de salão in Rio de Janeiro, and by Bruno Galhardo, one of the most famous Brazilian Zouk teachers in the world. She has been active in the dance scene as an organizer for over a decade.
Gigi
Kizomba Project Director
Austin NeoKizomba, led by Charles Ogar, is dedicated to celebrating and preserving the cultural heritage of Kizomba, Urban Kiz, and Neo Kiz. Through the annual Neo Kizomba Festival and community programs, the project promotes the rich cultural roots and contemporary expressions of these dance forms.
Charles
Ricardo
Board Member
Ricardo Guerrero is a digital and social media specialist who helped Dell reach its Spanish language customer base through online marketing. Ricardo helps Fisterra with digital strategy, communications and innovation.
Collaborator
Inter-disciplinary visual artist Jason Akira Somma is an internationally lauded heretic renowned for "defying categorization" (Rolex Arts) & merges new technology, science, performance, & kinesthetic into new, autonomous media & Aesthetic Singularity
Jason
Angela
Treasurer
Angela Hollingsworth brings over 20 years of expertise in financial management, strategic planning, and cultural advocacy. With an MBA focused on agile workforce design and extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, she ensures fiscal transparency and strategic financial oversight.
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