TEAM
Pranay Reddy - Executive Director
Dominique Go - Systems Administrator
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Joyce Kohl - President
Joyce Kohl was a professor of fine art at Cal State Bakersfield beginning in 1997 and is now Emeritus. Kohl received her master’s in fine art at Cal-State University Fullerton. Grants and fellowships include a Fulbright African Regional Research Grant in Zimbabwe, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1986. Kohl has exhibited her art nationally and internationally. Her public art has included a sculpture for a Park n ’Ride in Washington State and a bronze sculpture for Equitable City Center on Wilshire in Los Angeles. She is currently working on the artwork for the Claremont Metro Station. Kohl has served as an LA Artcore board member for over 12 years.
Nicholette Kominos - Vice President
Nicholette Kominos is a sculptor who has regularly exhibited in galleries and alternative spaces nationally and internationally. Nicholette has worked in varied capacities within the nonprofit arts sector, including roles as a museum educator and curatorial assistant at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery from 1987 to 2005, and as an artist-educator with Friends of the Junior Art Center's Artists In Residence program from 1995 to 2005. She has run the office of her partner’s foundry and art fabrication business, coordinating with teams of artists using classical and contemporary casting techniques to complete artists’ sculptures and custom fabrication projects. Kominos studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, earning degrees in Psychology and Studio Art. She received a post-graduate degree in Classical Greek from Trinity Saint David College, University of Wales, Lampeter, U.K.
Alicia Doddy – Secretary
Alicia Doddy is an arts educator in the Downey Unified School District and has a cumulative service on Artcore’s board of over 14 years. Since rejoining in 2020, Doddy has led the special events fundraising committee and led the cataloging of Artcore’s Founder, Lydia Takeshita’s estate, donated to Artcore by the Takeshita family. Doddy has taught at an elementary level for the Downey Unified School District for over 20 years.
Krishna Malhotra
Krishna Malhotra has over forty years of experience as a practicing lawyer. Malhotra received his Master's in Law (LL.M) at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He is currently on the board of the Inglewood Photo Festival and is a published photographer, including Interpublique Photography Magazine and LensWork Magazine, and exhibits at Diana Berger Gallery and the Walt Girdner Gallery.
Young Ku Park
Young Ku Park is an artist and arts educator based in Santa Ana. Park is a graduate of Seoul National University and works with the Korean and Korean-American community as an arts mentor. Park leads Artcore’s organizing committee for special events.
SUPPORTERS
Kaman Foundation, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, LA County Arts Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition (LAVA), Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Creative Recovery LA Initiative, Jim Cox Jr. Foundation
