Staff

President

A graduate of Harvard and Stanford Universities, Laura is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Laura launched her film career in France, where she worked for eight years as an editor on French feature films before returning to the US to make her own documentaries. A prevailing interest in non-mainstream communities has guided her creative trajectory throughout the years. She co-directed Secret People (2000), a chronicle of the past and present of leprosy in America, which was broadcast nationally on PBS' Independent Lens series and won a silver medal at the SXSW Film Festival. In 2010, she co-directed Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm, which won the Grand Festival Award in Documentary at the Berkeley Film Festival in 2011. Since 2012, Laura has worked for the Center, focusing on expanding diversity and inclusion, and ensuring the long-term future of the program. In addition to Bogliasco, Laura is devoted to her family, ashtanga yoga, hiking, and sea swimming.

Director of the Bogliasco Study Center

Ivana Folle has worked at the Bogliasco Center since it opened in 1996: first as Associate Director, and beginning in 2010 as the Senior Residential Director and Vice President. She owned and operated the Galleria San Bernardo in Genoa from 1993 to 2008 and occasionally was the Artistic Director for the Galleria Ghiglione in the years to follow. Thanks to her many years of experience in the Genoa art world, Ivana maintains important connections to the local cultural environment and beyond. Ivana holds a degree in Visual Arts at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti in Genoa. She has not pursued a career as an artist, but in her free time she likes to paint and draw en plein air, perhaps after a long walk in nature.

Human Resources Manager

Valeria has worked in the administrative and management office of the Bogliasco Center since 2009. She is married to Luigi Crovetto, with whom she shares - in addition to the workplace - a passion for creativity. They have two children and a granddaughter, who is the focus of their family life. Before Bogliasco, for many years she worked in a construction engineering and interior design firm. She enjoys graphic design and informal collage, to which she dedicates herself in her spare time. Valeria and Luigi live in Sori, a small town near Bogliasco, with their dog Kiba.

Program Director

Originally from France, Arielle Moreau has been living in New York since 2010. She holds a BA degree in art history from the University Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble, France and a State Diploma as an Interpretive Cultural Guide from the University of Lyon. Prior to New York, she resided in Italy for several years and worked there and in France as a tour guide and Trip Specialist for the American active travel company Backroads. She then worked for various cultural institutions in France and came to New York to assist a curator in running an experimental, contemporary art space before embarking on her journey with Bogliasco. As the Program Director, she brings her organizational skills, her Italian experience, and her sensibility to the arts and humanities to oversee the Bogliasco Fellowship program.

Program Manager

Ray is a cultural steward, arts administrator, and visual artist. A proud New York native, Ray has been able to live around the world, notably in Rio and Berlin, before returning to New York to join the Bogliasco Center. Ray has a long history of supporting artists, most recently through managing the BOFFO residency program and performance art festival. Before residency management, Ray held social science research positions at Bloomberg Philanthropies and Wesleyan University. Ray enjoys urban farming, painting, and sewing in their free time.

Development Associate

Emily Kiacz has been living in New York since 2011. She is a painter and arts administrator. She received her MFA in painting from Boston University and her BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Kiacz has exhibited her work in many New York galleries, including Cuevas Tilleard Projects, Morgan Lehman Gallery, and White Columns. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, Tilleard Projects Residency, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, among others. She brings her experience as a practicing artist to her development role at Bogliasco.