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 is an operations strategist and social impact leader with an entrepreneurial background and over 14 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, with over 10 years in art, museum, and culture institutions. She has a passion for cultural history, research, problem-solving, and developing innovative programs while leveraging technology and innovation to drive engagement. Ester thrives at researching to find creative solutions that build public interest in cultural assets.

She currently serves as the Director of Impact Partnerships for United to Learn, an education nonprofit in Dallas that partners with Dallas ISD public schools. In her role, Ester serves as the relationship manager to a portfolio of corporate, faith-based, and non-profit organizational partners. She is the founder and director of The Roaming Ramekins, a boutique business management consultancy offering organizations guidance in development, marketing, and operations.

During her six years at the Nasher Sculpture Center, she managed both the General Membership and Visitor Services programs within the Development Department. While there, she discovered her keen interest in development and community engagement. She held various roles for cultural institutions in Europe, including as Assistant Registrar for the Oskar Schlemmer Theatre Estate, archive assistant for the Canterbury City Council Museum and Gallery Sector, gallery invigilator at the Sidney Cooper Gallery, and writer/editor for the international publication: Berlin Art Link.

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 lives in East Dallas with her husband Matt, daughter Luci, son Theo and their dog Charlie.

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.

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.

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.

Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, light based work, music and immersive public art installations. She is especially interested in works that create a visual and musical dialogue to encourage artistic collaboration between herself and the community. Her light based work is part of the art collection at UTSW, Clements University Hospital, Dallas, TX and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum in Dallas, TX. Her films have screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Austin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival and KERA Public television-Frame of Mind. She has exhibited with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Soluna Festival, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Biennial and Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX.

As a Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Cedars Union commission recipient she premiered her work titled Negotiating Dialogues in 2021, she is a TACA 2019 New Works Fund Grant recipient, a Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Arts Activate Grant 2019 recipient, a former Cedars Union Artist Residency recipient and a Virginia Commission for the Arts, Project Grant New Works recipient.

She is a founding member of Texas Vignette having served five years as Vice President and now as Creative Director. She received her Associates Degree in Audio Engineering and Electronics at Ridgewater College, Hutchison, MN and her BFA in Jazz Studies and guitar performance from the University of North Texas.