Our STAFF
OUR FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Subashini Ganesan-Forbes (She/Her)
Subashini is a curator, arts administrator, choreographer, Chair of the Oregon Arts Commission, and former Creative Laureate of Portland (2018 – June 2021). Her contemporary works include deep collaborations with acclaimed artists and arts organizations including Mike Barber (Founder, Ten Tiny Dances), Michelle Fujii (UNIT SOUZOU), Sabina Haque, Amna Mawaz Khan (Pakistan/Germany), Anita Menon, DJ Anjali, Middlebury College, University of Oregon, Portland Opera, Third Angle New Music, PICA, APANO, and Portland Center Stage.
Subashini founded New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) in 2012. Through residencies, artist conversations, and performance seasons, this vibrant performing arts venue celebrates bold new works created by multicultural independent performing artists.
In 2021, Ganesan-Forbes stewarded “Community Healing Through Art,” an arts-focused, community-informed project designed to leverage the power of arts and culture to support grieving and healing throughout Portland’s diverse communities. Currently she is an integral member of the Our Creative Future Steering Committee that is co-creating goals and strategies for a regional arts and culture plan and as Community Advisory Committee member of the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. Subashini Ganesan is a board member of the Portland Parks Foundation and the James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation.
Some links:-
https://anthology.allclassical.org/artists/subashini-ganesan-forbes/
https://www.orartswatch.org/subashini-ganesan-forbes-joins-oregon-arts-commission/
https://www.portland.gov/omf/news/2022/2/23/community-healing-through-art-final-report
https://www.orartswatch.org/subashini-ganesan-last-official-project/
https://www.opb.org/news/article/emergency-funding-covid-19-arts-equity-oregon/
https://www.orartswatch.org/dance-preview-everything-and-nothing/
https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-creative-laureate-subashini-ganesan-interview/
http://www.asianreporter.com/stories/local/2018/09-suba.htm
http://www.orartswatch.org/new-expressive-works-boundary-pushing/
Subashini Ganesan-Forbes
OUR PROGRAMS MANAGER
Danielle Ross (She/Her)
Danielle Ross is a choreographer, performer, and scholar. Her latest work, Lineage (Solo) investigates how the ghostly traces of past people and dance practices show up in her moving body. Her work has been supported by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, PICA, N.E.W., Velocity Dance Center, and Pivot Arts. Invested in interdisciplinary collaboration, Ross co-founded the performance series Pure Surface with poet Stacey Tran, was on the board of the Creative Music Guild, and currently runs the multidisciplinary series Public Nature with JP Jenkins. She is currently collaborating with Linda Austin and Allie Hankins on Austin’s work In Preparation for Disappearances to Come, which will premiere in 2025 at PICA.
Danielle Ross