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.

David received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute of Art in 1975, then spent a year traveling in Europe to visit many of the art museums and relevant sights in numerous European countries. In addition, he interned and studied with American sculptor Jonathan Shahn in Rome. David returned to the US for an intensive German language course and was then accepted to Graduate Studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, (West) Germany, in 1977. He received his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts in 1982. After his return to the US, David started teaching sculpture at the Putney School in VT, and general art courses later on at a college in Gardner, MA. Raising a family, renovating houses, and earning a living, did not allow for much time to pursue his art.    

After a move to North Carolina, David started sculpting and exhibiting in solo and group shows again in 2013. Since his move to Arizona in 2017, he continues to expand his catalog of work, now also focusing on painting. He has been exhibiting  in group shows in Nevada and at the Kingman Center of the Arts since 2018.