Friday, November 14, 2025

Welcome Reception and Check in at the Loeb Art Center

5:00–7:00 p.m.

Join the Loeb Student Advisory Committee for refreshments and tours of the galleries by the
Loeb’s Student Guides; meet members of the Loeb staff and mingle with fellow participants.

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Breakfast at The Heartwood at Vassar Conference Room (Elm)

9:00–10:00 a.m.

Introductions, Accomplishments, and Goals

10:00–11:00 a.m.

Groups share a program they have been working on, and challenges they have encountered.

Morning Keynote Presentation by Miki Garcia, Director, ASU Art Museum

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Talk title and description TBA

Miki’s Bio

Lunch

12:00–1:00 p.m.

Breakout Groups - Session 1

1:00–2:00 p.m.

Break

2:00–2:30 p.m.

From Galleries to the Grid: Museum Storytelling on Social Media by Karen Vidangos

2:30–3:30 p.m.

A presentation on how museums translate their missions into digital storytelling. Drawing from projects like the Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future, the Met Gala, and the Latinx Art Collective, the session explores how social media can educate, entertain, and build community while amplifying voices often left out of institutional narratives. Attendees will gain insight into creating people-first stories that resonate across platforms and last beyond the algorithm.

Karens’s Bio

Breakout groups - Session 2

3:30–5:00 p.m.

Dinner

6:00–8:00 p.m.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Brunch

9:00–11:00 a.m.

Closing Remarks and feedback

Optional guided tour of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Keynote Presenters

Miki Garcia

Miki was appointed Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum in December 2017 where she oversees a 48,000 square foot museum facility designed by Antoine-Predock, that charges no admission. The Museum boasts 15,000 objects and presents a slate of world-class exhibitions, programs and publications that center art and artists in the service of social good and community wellbeing. She was previously the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara from 2005-2017. Prior to this, she worked at the Public Art Fund, N.Y. from 2001 to 2004. From 1999 to 2001 Garcia was a Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and has also worked at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin and the San Antonio Museum of Art.

In 2022, she was named one of the 48 Most Intriguing Women of Arizona and participated in ASU’s Women in Philanthropy. Originally from the border town of Brownsville, Texas, Garcia holds a BA from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY and a MA from the University of Texas at Austin. She speaks English, Italian and Spanish, and is passionately committed to the transformation of art museums to be more equitable and civically accountable.

Karen Vidangos

Karen is the founder of the Latinx Art Collective, the first nationwide directory dedicated exclusively to Latinx artists across the United States. Known online as Latina in Museums, she uses digital platforms to elevate and explore underrepresented perspectives in the arts.

As a social media specialist, she has led high-profile initiatives including the National Portrait Gallery’s Obama Portraits Tour and the 2019 American Portrait Gala, and spearheaded the Smithsonian’s institution-wide initiative Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past. She holds a B.A. in Art History from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Museum Studies from George Washington University.

She is currently the Senior Manager of Social Media at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Student Advisory Committee