About Us — The Capa Space

The Capa Space - Board of Directors

ELISE GRAHAM is an artist and founder of Rodi Gallery. She holds a BFA from Cornell University 1978, and a MFA from Hunter College 1984. Rodi Gallery (2013-2020) was a mobile art gallery in the back of a retrofitted 12 -foot step van refashioned as a pristine exhibition space. It traveled throughout NYC and the Hudson Valley in search of new audiences for the work of emerging, established and undiscovered artists. Elise has a history of inventing new ways to bring art to audiences including a pop-up gallery and “Art in the Woods” exhibition. Elise has been co chair of the civic committee of The Garden Club of Yorktown for 10 years and an active member of the club for 30 years. Her most cherished volunteer work has been with Dorot Westchester where she was a ‘Friendly Visitor’ for homebound seniors for 10 years. Elise and her husband David have lived in Yorktown for 35 years. They have two grown children who graduated from Yorktown Schools.
TIMOTHY HARTUNG is a founding partner of Ennead Architects, a 150 person firm known for making transformative Architecture for institutions in the public realm, located in New York City. With extensive experience in the firms complex cultural, performing arts and educational projects he led the managment efforts on many of the firms award-winning projects including: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick Rose Public Space Redesign NY, NY; Stanford University, Bing Concert Hall Stanford, CA; Holland Performing Arts Center Omaha, NE; Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe, NM; Carnegie Hall Master Plan NY, NY; The Ed Sullivan Theater Adaptation NY, NY; Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall Washington, DC; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Renovation and Expansion NY, NY; Museum of the City of New York Renovation and Expansion; Old Custom House Renovation NY, NY; Abrons Art Center Renovation NY, NY; John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Master Plan Washington, DC; Westchester Community College Gateway Center Valhalla, NY; Arizona State University, Beus Center for Law and Society Phoenix AZ. Tim graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Architecture. In 2004, the School recognized him with the Department of Architecture Alumni Achievement Award. He is also active in the United States Institute of Theatre Technology and is a former Director-at-Large and Architecture Commissioner of the organization. Recipient of the 2013 USITT Distinguished Achievement Award, he was recognized for his expertise in the formal and technical challenges of theatres and performing arts centers. Tim is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He and his wife Holly Ross have lived in Yorktown for 37 years where they raised two children.
HENRY WELT Throughout his business and professional life, Henry, who is a practicing lawyer, has sought to integrate his love of art and admiration for creativity into how he makes his living. Henry has represented artists, art galleries as well as museums and art schools; he served as a member of the Board, a member of the Executive Committee, and as Vice Chairman of The Brooklyn Museum, a Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Harlem School for the Arts, Chair of the Board of the Drawing Society, and Editor of its magazine, Drawing. Since moving to Ossining, Henry has served as the first Chair of the Ossining Arts Project, (the Ossining Village Arts Committee), founding Board member of the Sing Sing History Museum, a Board member of Bethany Arts Community and is a supporter of the Westchester Collaborative Theater, Ossining Childrens Center, and a member of the Ossining Arts Council. Henry is committed to the notion that art and creativity are essential for people and communities to thrive. Together with his partner, Abby Lewis, he co-founded Ossining Innovates!, the first inclusive entrepreneurship initiative in New York State. OI! aims to empower people to design their own futures and build stronger, more caring communities, by providing entrepreneurship and critical thinking skills at no cost to participants. Henry and his wife, Nicki, live in Ossining together with their two dogs, Huck and Finn.
REBECCA SWAN is a retired social worker who received her degree from The Columbia University School of Social Work. Practiced social work for 20 years in central Harlem as a result of her determination to combat the statement of one of her professors, “Poor people receive poor services.” Rebecca is strongly committed to racial, social and economic justice professionally and personally. She is active in progressive politics and environmental causes. Rebecca is a gardener and a Quaker.
JOSE A. ALVARADO JR is a Puerto Rican photographer dedicated to documenting class inequality, civic engagement, and contemporary issues in Puerto Rico and New York City. He works primarily in long-form storytelling, using visual imagery as a bridge to help raise awareness of the struggles and hardships impacting individuals and communities immersed in positions where they feel trapped, violated, and unable to escape. Through his devotion to in-depth projects, his goal is to spread awareness, begin discussions between members of the communities affected and their audience, and to discover strategies to navigate these challenging elements in our societies. Jose, who grew up in Yorktown Heights NY, is a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology. He is currently based in Brooklyn and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in The Intercept, Financial Times, Reuters, The Atlantic, TIME, The New Yorker, Courier International, Redux Pictures, NPR, VICE, Vanity Fair, STERN, CNN, NBC, and CBS.
MICHELE KRAUSHAAR is a graphic designer with specialties in typography and visual marketing and has concentrated on assisting both companies and non-profit organizations. Michele has always been passionate about photography, fine art and design. She studied at Cornell University’s School of Art & Architecture and at Parsons School of Design where she earned a BFA degree in Graphic Design. In 2006 Michele along with a partner, founded Tzahal Shalom of Northern Westchester a registered 501c3. Over the past 15 years, Tzahal Shalom has become a well-established and well-known organization throughout Westchester County. Michele currently serves as Executive Director and Director of Marketing and Promotion. Michele and her husband Judah have been residents of Chappaqua since 1988 and have three grown children and 3 grandchildren.
ABIGAIL LEWIS is co-founder of Ossining Innovates! where she co-designs programs and curriculum, including the Inclusive Business Accelerator, and teaches. She has served as Executive Director, and Strategic Advisor to the Founder, of Bethany Arts Community. While at Bethany, Abby safely reopened and stewarded the organization through the Covid pandemic while creating new programs, expanding community collaboration and partnerships, and growing grant funding. She is a founding board member, and was the first treasurer, of the Sing Sing Prison Museum, and a board member of the Brieant Youth Alliance. Before her first “retirement,” she was an executive at IBM where she held a variety of strategy and operations roles. Early in her career she was an associate with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and worked at Greater Boston Elderly Legal Services and The NY Legal Aid Society. Abby has a J.D. from Fordham Law School. She and her husband David have lived in Croton and Ossining, where they raised their two children, for 34 years..
ALAN HAYWOOD is a photographer with over forty years professional experience. He holds a BFA in photography from Rhode Island School Of Design. Alan’s photography career started as a studio manager and photographer at Shearer Visuals doing corporate editorial photography for Fortune 500 hundred companies, such as IBM, General Foods and Philip Morris. He then opened his own studio and continued the same sort of work as well as studio promotional portraiture and still life photographs for advertising and marketing for over thirty years His teaching experience includes teaching photography at Educage, an alternative high school servicing Westchester County Public schools for at risk students and a teacher assistant at Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism. He also was an adjunct teacher for many years at Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford introducing elementary students to analog and digital photography. Alan was involved with mentoring students in photography with programs such as W.I.S.E and after school programs . He was the director of the photography program as well as a teacher at Northern Westchester Center For The Arts in Mount Kisco. He has been involved in exhibiting his personal photographs in solo and group shows in the Tri-State area for many years. He is a participating member of The Ossining Arts Council. He and his wife have lived in Ossining for forty three years where they raised their daughter.