MEET THE TEAM
Board of Trustees
Staff
Abigail Del Rio
Business Manager
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x126
Email: Abby@artscleveland.org
Abby Del Rio’s feelings about arts and culture don’t fit the narrowly stereotypic outlook of a numbers-driven bean counter. “Life without the arts would be pretty boring,” she says, pointing out that there’s more to life than just one’s daily, prosaic routine. “I definitely appreciate [live theater],” she adds, and her amateur interest in drawing is serious enough that she’s taken classes to acquire some technique training.
Kristen Levy
Development Manager
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x122
Email: KLevy@artscleveland.org
Kristen Levy wasn’t born and raised in Cleveland, but she’s been here her entire adult life (excepting a four-year sojourn to Los Angeles), and she’s “definitely a Clevelander,” she states. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Kristen moved northeast in 2002 to attend Case Western Reserve University.
Meg Matko
Community Relations Manager
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x123
Email: Meg@artscleveland.org
Meg Matko’s interest in artists and in arts and culture is personal — she’s a visual artist herself. “I know what it is to go to art school and graduate not knowing how to survive as an artist,” she remembers. And trying to figure out how to make a semblance of a living wage while also staying committed to her artwork wasn’t easy: ...
Kristin Puch
Senior Researcher
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x124
Email: Kristin@artscleveland.org
Kristin Puch’s perspective on arts and culture is perhaps more numeric than aesthetic — as a researcher, she looks at arts and culture through the lens of data. “Data infuses all the work we do,” she says. “It’s a tool for understanding what’s going well [in the sector] and what the challenges are.”
LeAundra Richardson
Associate of Programs and Marketing
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x132
Email:
LeAundra Richardson discovered her love for music early — she began piano lessons at age six and was playing violin with her school orchestra by fifth grade. “I was just always talented at [music] and enjoyed it,” the Oberlin, Ohio, native says of her germinal attraction to and immersion in the arts.
Valerie Schumacher
Acting Managing Director
Phone: (216) 575-0331, x128
Email: Valerie@artscleveland.org
Valerie Schumacher feels a gravitational pull toward drawing. Not surprisingly, her major at Baldwin Wallace University was studio art and arts management. She’s also studied photography, including at Italy’s Umbra Institute, and has won awards for her work in that medium, but although she enjoys shooting pictures, she just isn’t as attracted to it as she is to process of “putting charcoal to paper."