Texas Vignette Board of Directors

Jessica Brit Ingle, President

Jessica is a curator, writer, and art entrepreneur focusing on Texas art. She has worked nearly fifteen years in various arenas throughout the Texas art scene, including major museums, galleries, and private collections. As such, she has a keen understanding of Texas art institutions and their collections and can draw upon a strong network of art professionals throughout the state.

Jessica also has a background in registration and art advising, services which she renders through her business, Ingle Art Consultancy, LLC. She has established archival policies and procedures for multiple public and private collections and is fluent in art acquisition, preparation, and the art market.

Jessica obtained a dual Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Business Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, 2009, and her Master’s degree in Art History from the University of North Texas, 2012. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, specializing in American art, with a particular emphasis on Texas art, photography, and feminism. She has presented at major institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, and has curated exhibitions in institutional, university, corporate, and gallery spaces. She is currently working on a dissertation that surveys Texas women photographers, with the goal of publishing her research as part of a four-book series.

Vanessa Hadox, Vice President

Vanessa Hadox is an arts administrator with nearly 15 years of experience in fundraising and communications. She is currently serving as Director of Development, Institutional Giving at the Nasher Sculpture Center.  

Prior to moving to Dallas in 2021, Vanessa fundriased for several arts organizations in New York, including BRIC Arts | Media, Public Art Fund, and Groundswell Community Mural Project.

She has guest lectured at the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, Temp to Perm public art conference, the Van Alen Institute, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals conference. She has led public art tours for the U.S. State Department and the Municipal Art Society.

She is a frequent panelist and proposal evaluator, most recently for the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Vanessa co-founded the NYU Museum Studies Alumni Association in 2014, served as an adviser in the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Emerging Leaders Program from 2018 to 2020, and participated in the Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy Program at the Communities Foundation of Texas in 2023.

Vanessa holds an MA in Museum Studies from NYU and a BA in History from the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Oak Cliff with her husband, cat, and two dogs.

Madeleine Fitzgerald, Treasurer

Madeleine Fitzgerald is an art museum educator in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In the fall of 2018, she became the Manager of Public Programs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

A Texas native, Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Trinity University in San Antonio in 2009, where she also completed a two-year internship with the Registrar department at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Madeleine earned her Master’s degree in Art History with an Art Museum Education certificate from the University of North Texas in 2013. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century art with a focus on post-war American art. While attending graduate school, she was the Treasurer of UNT's Art History Society. Following graduate school, Madeleine was the 2013-2014 McDermott Graduate Student Intern for Public Programming at the Dallas Museum of Art before becoming the Education Coordinator for Programming at the DMA from 2014-2018.

Ester Harrison, Development Chair

Ester Ippolito Harrison is an art historian and social impact leader with over a decade of experience both in the nonprofit sector and in art, museum, and culture institutions. She has a passion for cultural history, research, and problem-solving to develop innovative programs that increase public interest in and community support for historical and cultural assets.

She is an Adjunct Arts & Humanities Professor at Dallas College. Additionally, she is a Meadows Doctoral Fellow in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in Art History at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. Her focus is on the intersection of public art and communities in Latin America.  

Ester spent several years working in Europe at various cultural institutions including The Oskar Schlemmer Theatre Estate, the Canterbury City Council Museum, and Berlin Art Link. She has also held roles with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art, National Park Service, Craighead Green Gallery and the Texas Women's Caucus for Art.

Ester holds an MPhil. in Art History from the University of Kent at Canterbury and BA in Art History with concentrations in Italian and Printmaking from the University of Dallas. She has served as a panelist for several conferences, including presenting symposiums of her research. She is very involved in her community, and serves as an Associate Member of Lakewood Service League. She lives in East Dallas with her husband Matt, daughter Luci, son Theo and their dog Charlie.

Danielle Naylor, Art Fair Director

Danielle Naylor currently works as the Administrative Assistant in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at UTA, where she acts as the liaison for the faculty, manages the department’s budget, and assists with course scheduling. With a passion for building connections between people and art, Naylor is an experienced educator in both museum and gallery settings, teaching young children to adults. For the past 10 years, she has worked throughout the US creating educational and interpretive material and managing education departments in addition to teaching. In October 2017, she assisted in the opening of The Museum of Street Culture. Naylor received her MA in Art Education, with a focus on Museum Education, in 2016 from the University of North Texas. She received a BA in Art History from UNT in 2013.

Angela Gonzalez Hall, Secretary

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Mari Ramirez, Communications Chair

Mari Ramirez received both her BBA’s in International Business Spanish and Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. However, there has always been a love for the arts. In the Fall of 2017, she began her journey into the art world at the Nasher Sculpture Center as an External Affairs Intern. Upon graduation, her extended internship led to her accepting a position on the Development team as the Gift Processor, which then turned into shy of two years of being the Manager of Advancement Operations.

Mari spent the last year abroad in Spain as a teaching assistant for the community of Madrid. Having the chance to return abroad, she realized that there is still room for growth in the city of Dallas. She recently accepted a position at the Dallas Museum of Art as the Manager of Advancement Services and Donor Research and looks forward to extending her knowledge in database management.

Mari is thrilled to be welcomed back onto the board and hopes to help continue growing the community of Texas based women artists through social media. She is thankful for the creative outlet and the opportunity to be surrounded by a group of amazing and empowering women.

Mandy Engleman, Co-Graphic Design Chair

Mandy Engleman is a graphic designer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the design field, primarily in art and science museums. She has created and managed the in-house design teams at the Dallas Museum of Art and Perot Museum of Nature and Science. She’s currently partner/co-owner of Boldface Studio, a certified woman-owned small business specializing in museum and nonprofit graphic and environmental design. For the past fifteen years she has also taught college courses specializing in graphic design, typography, and portfolio development and currently teaches for the VisCom department at the TAMUC Dallas campus and SMU.

 Mandy has a BFA in design communications from Texas A&M University—Commerce and has a wide range of experience in brand development, print, publications, exhibition and environmental design, and creative/art direction. She is lover of all things typographic, colorful, and mid-century and is a softie for dogs and nephews. She lives in Plano with her dog Jojo.

Becca Winti, Co-Graphic Design Chair

Becca Winti is a graphic designer with nearly 20 years of experience. She worked for the Dallas Museum of Art in-house design team for over twelve years and served as Director of Creative Services for three years. For the past nine years Becca has co-owned Boldface Studio, a design studio specializing in museum and nonprofit design and has worked with clients such as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Kimbell Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art, Meadows Museum at SMU, Two x Two for AIDS and Art, and The Warehouse.

 Becca has a BFA in design communications from Texas Tech University and has a wide range of experience in brand development, print, publications, exhibition and environmental design, and creative/art direction. Becca is an avid gardener and lives in Plano with her husband JT, son Everett, and dogs Crosby and Luna.

Erika Jaeggli, Programming Chair

Erika Jaeggli received her BA in art history from Columbia University, MA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program, and MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas. Her work has been shown in Texas, California, Maryland, Arkansas and Missouri. Jaeggli’s work has been featured in Studio Visit Magazine and New American Paintings. She has been artist-in-residence at the Dallas Arboretum. Jaeggli received a TACA Pop-Up Grant for her on-site work at the Boedeker Building, a historical 100-year old former ice cream factory in Dallas, TX. Additionally, she was a 2021 recipient of the The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art. Currently, Jaeggli teaches at University of North Texas and University of Texas at Dallas. She has a studio in the Tin District of Dallas, TX.

Advisory Council

Texas Vignette’s daily operations are carried out by its all-volunteer Board of Directors and committee members. The Advisory Council supports the Board of Directors by providing guidance, advocacy, and connections to needed resources.

Current Advisory Council Members

Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
Laura Elcock, Philanthropist, Community Arts Advocate, and Director of the Laura and Walter Elcock Family Foundation
Susan Ernst, Philanthropist and Community Arts Advocate
Lauren James, Assistant Director of Development at the Crow Museum of Asian Art
Anne Lenhart, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum
Vicki Meek, Artist, Curator, and Community Activist
Darryl Ratcliff, Co-Founder at Gossypion Investments
Jeremy Strick, Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center
Emma Vernon, Director of Marketing and Development at The Cedars Union
Ken Villalovos, Publisher at Arts and Culture Texas magazine