Collaborative Committee

Ashley Marshall is an Arts Administrator and arts advocate. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Leadership from Seattle University. Her work includes experience with Wa Na Wari, the 2020 exhibition Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis, and the Applied Arts Ecosystem Research Project (AERP).  She enjoys learning about the rich, expansive, and impactful arts and culture history in Washington State and is passionate about sharing that history with others. 

Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud is a curator, arts advocate, and historian of art and performance. She is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies at the School of Washington with an affiliate appointment in Art History. Her research and teaching engage performance studies, theater history, Black aesthetics, visual culture, aesthetic experimentation, race, feminist and queer of color critique, cultural policy, urbanism, and geography. An essayist, scholar, and arts journalist, her writing and interviews appear in Modern Drama, Performance Research, TDR: The Drama Review, Women & Performance, as well as in Art Forum, ASAP/J Online, Canadian Art Review, Common Reader, Howlround, Hyperallergic, LitHub, and the South Seattle Emerald, where she regularly writes articles centering BIPOC artists. She has curated Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis (2020, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle WA) and Northwest Black (2021, Nepantla Gallery, Seattle, WA). Committed to arts advocacy, she currently serves as a Governor Inslee appointed Washington State Arts Commissioner and Vice President of the Board of On the Boards.

Ricky Reyes is a Tacoma-born researcher, creative, oral historian and arts administrator. Trained in public policy at Seattle University and in oral history through Seattle’s Black Spatial Histories Institute, Ricky’s previous research, writing, art, and work center the ways we cultivate sustainable partnerships with diverse stakeholders, from municipal agencies to grassroots leaders, ensuring inclusive representation in gallery programming, public art, public events and policy advisory roles. 

Ricky’s work experience includes project management, community outreach, and program design at and in partnership with arts organizations such as the City of Tacoma’s Arts & Cultural Vitality Division, The Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle University, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Tacoma Division of Community and Economic Development (Arts & Cultural Vitality Division), Napster Streaming (Rhapsody), Wa Na Wari and Seattle Theatre Group. 

Questions? Contact Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Curator Victoria Miles at VMiles@TacomaArtMuseum.org.