Executive Director

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Kristina is an avid participant and consumer of the arts. She has over 30 years of experience as a pianist, both in performing and teaching. She loves to accompany other artists as well as solo. She is also experienced with hand bells, having played in a professional hand bell choir in the Las Vegas area. Kristina also has ten years of experience in community dance programs including tap, jazz, ballet and modern dance. She is the mother of five boys and hopes to bring more opportunities for art-based programs to the city so that her boys can share in her passion. 

Kristina has spent the last six years as executive director of Kingman Center for the Arts. During this time, she has been executive producer to over 26 live community theater productions. She is currently overseeing the renovation plans of a local historic theater into a performing arts venue. Other activities she is engaged in are Disney Musicals in Schools, a program that creates sustainable live theater programs in the city’s elementary schools, SOAR, Student Outreach and Art Renditions, an art-based, opioid education program and oversight of the KCA Gallery and the education space that is run by Kingman Center for the Arts.

Sidney Valdez is a dedicated and passionate artist who strives to create more art and theater opportunities for all in our community. Sidney has been involved with Kingman Center for the Arts for six years , and has directed or been directly involved in over 15 Beale Street Theater Productions. Sidney serves as our KCA Education Director, one of our Disney Musicals in Schools Teaching Artists, and an Artistic Director for Beale Street Theater. She also teaches several musical theater classes through our partnership with Wildflower Art Studio and Gallery both for kids and teens and invites all of our local youth to get involved in our thriving theater and arts community. 

Inessa is a multifaceted individual with a passion for organization and art. She graduated from Framingham State University in Massachusetts with A BA in Food Science. Although she deviated from it for a short time, the arts have been Inessa's passions from an early age - ranging from performances in plays, musicals, and choirs to book and video game illustration, and graphic design. Finding her way back to the arts in 2020, she now holds a passion and dedication for them that burns brighter than ever.

Carol has a lifelong appreciation for the arts. All the arts. She is currently a

photographer and digital artist with a unique eye. Her interest in photography

was piqued by a class given by a Canon representative at the Grand Canyon,

where she was living at the time. A few years later when she moved to Kingman,

she took a class through MCC and started learning how to shoot with manual

settings. She spent three summers traveling the United States and Canada in a

truck camper and believes that travel, whether it is close by or across the country,

is conducive to learning, to expression and enhances creativity. Carol has been

involved in the gallery and gift shop since 2018.

Teri is a dedicated charter member of KCA and an artist skilled in multiple mediums. It became apparent that art was a passion of hers when, as a child, she would set up an art stand while the neighborhood kids would sell lemonade. Art plays a significant role in Teri's life and she has shared her skills and talents with the gallery since its founding.