JD Beltran, Interim Director of Cultural Affairs

Beltran is a conceptual artist, filmmaker and writer. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Kitchen in New York, the MIT Media Lab, the Singapore DigitalMediafest, Cité des Ondes Vidéo et Art Électronique in Montreal, ProArte in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in both the 2006 and 2008 ZeroOne San Jose New Media Biennials. She has been commissioned for public art projects in San Francisco, San Jose, Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Russia. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe, as well as in Art in America, ArtNews, the New Art Examiner, and Art Papers. She writes columns on art and culture for both SFGate.com and the Huffington Post, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Beltran is also on the faculty of the San Francisco Art Institute, where she is Director of the school’s City Studio arts education program for underserved youth.