OUR GENEROUS & TRUSTED ADVISORS:
Domhnaill Hernon, Global Director E.A.T
Nokia Bell Labs
Peter E. Raymond, Founder The New Bureau
Regine Basha, Curator and Cultural Producer
Marnie Benny, Curator and Producer
Mark Shaw, Photographer, Storyteller & Filmmaker
Dr. Alan Blackwell, Director of the Crucible Network for Research in Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge
Tom Gerkens, Former Manufacturing Design Engineer for Apple & Microsoft
Jan Hanvik, Fulbright Senior Scholar & Outreach Consultant, New York State Council of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts
Robert J. Szczerba, Ph.D., CEO X Tech Ventures, Senior Fellow Emeritus Lockheed Martin
Stout Thomas and Johnson, Stout Thomas and Johnson Law Firm
CONSULTANT
Laura Schwamb is a visual artist and former executive who’s held and built a solid reputation as a forward-thinking, people-driven executive in art, design, and technology. Celebrating liminal spaces; Project61 was the pre-COVID company she founded that was directed towards pairing artists with industry to problem solve on company projects, providing monetary compensation as well as valuable knowledge exchange.
“Her current work is focused on an artist’s place and sustainability in society. She is an artist advocate who excels in the art of transforming how industry and artists can work together to problem-solve toward a more humane society. She is a master of color and craft using video and drawing to create portraits and conversations as a catalyst for positive social change around her subject of the power of interdisciplinary collaborations.
She invites and inspires us to view the world as magical and filled with wonder. Through her work at Project61, we experience our universe with a new expansive and compelling perspective”.
Former projects she was responsible for building and running:
Erthecode; Partner/CCO, Human Condition Labs; Partner/CCO; Artist in Research program and creative agency: 3 years
MLNM; Co-founder/CCO; Magdalena New Mexico Art & Science residency program: 1.5 years
Tom Ford Beauty: Executive Director Global Design: 5.5 years