Future Tenant Staff 2010-2011
Due to our affiliation with Carnegie Mellon University, Future Tenant's staff rotates every year. Each spring, two new directors are hired for the following academic year, and each fall, six new Associate Directors are hired.
2010-2011 Co-Directors
Orvokki studied art, design, and textile technology at North Carolina State University. She's lived in New York City, Helsinki, Chapel Hill, and now Pittsburgh. She managed a gallery in Helsinki called Myymälä2, planned the visuals for a non-profit world music festival, taught pre-school art, works as a visual artist, and maintains a recycled sketchbook business on the side.
Laura Zorch
Laura graduated from Westminster College in 2006, with a degree in Public Relations and Fine Art, and a minor in awesome. For the next several years, Laura worked her magic as the marketing and development assistant at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. A majority of her experience is in event coordination - her crowning achievement was convincing The Westmoreland that setting up a fake ice rink on Museum grounds = a great idea (she was right, f.y.i.). Laura hopes she is able to use all of her crazy ideas to help the arts.
Director of Marketing
Corwin graduated from Oberlin College, where she took full advantage of her Liberal Arts degree to study the visual and performing arts (and graduated with Honors in History and a minor in English). She has lived and studied throughout the United States, as well as in England, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Among other things, Corwin has worked as Editor-in-Chief of a free-press magazine, founded a theatrical production company, and most recently was Social Media Assistant and blogger at the Center for Arts Management and Technology. Corwin is a freelance designer and a former actor.
Associate Director of Production & Technology
Patrick was born in Washington, DC to a Czech emigre mother and a father from Florida. Quickly he was brought home to the confines of the Maryland suburbs where he spent his adolescence playing electric and classical guitar and dreaming about one day becoming the fifth member of Metallica. Fleeing the burbs to the exotic center of Iowa, he went to Grinnell College where he majoried in Art History, ran cross country and track, and started up his very own punk rock band. College allowed him to work in Prague for two summers. After theorizing about the subversive meaning of ambiguity in his thesis on Arte Povera, he left for Italy where he lived the glorious life of an English teacher and learned how to drink wine. For whatever reason, he decided that the good life was not good enough an dhe decided to go into debt for graduate school, where he is seeking a double degree in Arts Management at Carnegie Mellon and Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts at the University of Bologna.