BOARD CHAIR & PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Tracy Midulla is the Founder and Director of Tempus Projects. She serves on the Steering Committee of Artspace Tampa Initiative, a group of leaders and artists who have engaged Artspace Projects, Inc., the nation's leading nonprofit developer of affordable live/work space for artists and arts organizations, to help build an Artspace facility in Tampa. Tracy is a former faculty professor at Hillsborough Community College, where she managed the student art gallery MAZE, and has taught at the University of Tampa and St. Petersburg College. She received a BFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from the Atlanta College of Art and an MFA from Florida State University.

VICE CHAIR

Ann-Eliza Musoke Taylor is an attorney with the Yates Law Firm in Tampa, Florida, where she specializes in trusts and estates. Ann-Eliza is a former Co-Chair of the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, in addition to serving as Co-Founder and Board Member of Philanthropic Young Tampa Bay and Board Member of the arts group Experimental Skeleton. Her professional and community affiliations include the following organizations: Hillsborough County Bar Association, Hillsborough County Young Lawyers Division, The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association. She received her J.D. from Stetson University College of Law and a B.A. from the University of South Florida.

SECRETARY

Tammy Harman-Siebel has been an arts advocate for much of her life, volunteering at the Tampa Museum of Art while in college, and then working for the Arts Council of Hillsborough County as an Administrative Assistant and later as Arts-In-Education Coordinator. She enjoys logistics management, and has both volunteered time and been employed by nonprofits that have used her talents in events organization. She received a BA in Religious Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration with an emphasis on Non-Profit Management at USF. Tammy is currently working as a Certified Vision Therapist where she works with children and adults to help them rebuild their visual systems. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, biking, kayaking, live music, and spending time with her husband Kevin, their two cats and two dogs, family, and friends.

BOARD MEMBER

Ian Foe is a multimedia specialist, splitting most of his time between photography and videography. Focused on documentary work, Foe is photographing much of the development across Florida from a helicopter or small plane. When not in the air, he is documenting events and exhibitions in galleries across the Tampa Bay area. For more than a decade, he worked as a preparator for the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, and he has continued to work on contract installations for institutions and individuals throughout Tampa. Foe received his BA in Media Production and Documentary from Flagler College.

BOARD MEMBER

Noel Smith is a visual arts curator, literary translator, and retired arts administrator. She spent 27 years at USF Institute for Research in Art, starting as a graduate assistant at Graphicstudio and ending as Deputy Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, with roles encompassing artist collaborations and exhibition curation, outreach and education, grant writing, publications and marketing, and administration. As Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art for the Institute, her primary area of research has been contemporary Cuban and Caribbean art. A translator of many literary and critical texts, Smith’s translation of Tampa: Impressions of an Emigrant by Wenceslao Gálvez, written in 1897 in Ybor City, was published in 2020 by University Press of Florida. Noel has a BA in Humanities from St. Leo University and an MA in Art History from USF. 

BOARD MEMBER

For almost three decades, Sean O’Brien has been involved in the Florida music scene. He's held every job imaginable, including runner, stage manager, tour booker, tour manager, festival booker, promoter, record producer, and more. He is the Co-Founder of Brokenmold Entertainment, Antiwarpt Music Festival, Plan B Block Party, Gasparilla Music Festival, Bronze Age Buttons, Reel Deal Thursdays, and many other music-based experiences. With his company, Mnemosyne Presents, Sean looks to create special, one-of-a-kind events that people remember for the rest of their lives, focusing not only on music, but also food, art, drama, and anything else that inspires and ignites the human mind.

BOARD MEMBER

Amanda Poss is the Gallery Director for Hillsborough Community College (HCC), managing three unique spaces across the Dale Mabry and Ybor City campuses. In addition to curating and programming, in her role as Gallery Director Poss also oversees grants, public art initiatives, and the college's growing permanent art collection. She received her MA in Art History from the University of South Florida in 2015, specializing in modern and contemporary art, and a BA from the University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2011. 

BOARD MEMBER

Kevin Tydlaska-Dziedzic has spent most of his life discovering ways to make a significant impact in the world. As a former foster child, a child of a failed adoption, and a proud member of the LGBTQ community, Kevin draws from life experience to help propel those around him, volunteering for organizations that fight for equality and focus on lifting up the underserved. He received his BFA from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design and is Co-Founder and CEO of BKN Creative, a creative and marketing agency based in Ybor City. Kevin’s goal is to continuously be a leader that pushes boundaries with love. He was awarded the 2020 TBBJ Business of Pride award, Top 10 Under 40 for Tampa Magazine, and a 2021 Stevie Award for Marketing Entrepreneur of the Year.

BOARD MEMBER

Julia Kushner was born in Chicago, Illinois, to immigrant parents from the USSR, who nurtured her love for the arts through visits to museums, galleries, and theater shows. She earned a BFA in oil painting from the American Academy of Art in Chicago and established a dynamic career as a gallerist in Chicago, New York, and Miami. Julia later expanded her expertise into art consulting for public art and hospitality, deepening her understanding of art's transformative value across diverse markets. She is the founder of hARTfully curated, a luxury art consulting and advisory firm specializing in fine art acquisitions, curation, sales, and collection management for private and public spaces. In 2023, Julia relocated to Tampa with her husband, Elias, their two children, Isaac and Eva, and their cockapoo, Oscar. When not crafting art proposals or shuttling the kids to ninja and gymnastics classes, she's attending gallery openings, art fairs, and events, and dancing to house beats.