The RedLine Team
Left to right: Andre Carbonell, Jane Sook Burke (back), Michelle Batalla (front), Robin Gallite, Leigh Kargol, Shaunie Berry, Tya Alisa Anthony, Omar Baca Cota.
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Left to right: Andre Carbonell, Jane Sook Burke (back), Michelle Batalla (front), Robin Gallite, Leigh Kargol, Shaunie Berry, Tya Alisa Anthony, Omar Baca Cota.
Tya Alisa Anthony is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and cultural leader with over 20 years of experience advancing inclusion, identity, and impact-driven change in the arts.
Her senior leadership spans directing education and community initiatives, advising cultural institutions, and shaping equity practices at local, state, and national levels.
Anthony has served as a curator, juror, and advisor for museums, state arts agencies, and municipal offices. Recognized as a RedLine Artist-in-Residence Alumni and BFA Valedictorian (summa cum laude) from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, she merges her creative practice with her commitment to systemic change.
She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Leon Gallery and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.
Jane Sook Burke (she/her) is currently the Art Director & Chief Curator at RedLine, where she oversees the artist-in residence program, exhibitions, and regranting.
Burke has over two decades of experience in non-profit arts administration, gained from positions primarily held in encyclopedic and contemporary art museums including: the Honolulu Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
Burke’s wide ranging curatorial projects stem from her sociological research interest in the cross-cultural construction of identity through material and visual culture. She has concurrently worked as an independent curator, adjunct professor, juror, and advisor for galleries, residencies, universities, and government agencies.
Burke received a bachelor’s degree in studio art with an emphasis on painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder and obtained an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Asian art history and Mandarin from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Jada K. Faulk is an experienced finance and operations leader with over 20 years of expertise in accounting, business development, and team management.
Currently serving as the Director of Finance & Human Resources at RedLine, she brings a strong background in streamlining financial processes, optimizing workflows, and fostering collaborative environments where creativity and efficiency thrive.
Jada was fortunate to take a hiatus from business management to focus on her own art practice, running a small stained glass shop within a thriving artist community. There, she combined artistic vision with business strategy, deepening her understanding of creative entrepreneurship. This experience reinforced her passion for supporting artists and creative communities through strong financial and operational foundations.
Dedicated to building sustainable financial structures, Jada works to empower artists and organizations to thrive.
Shaunie is an artist, educator and integrative health advocate. In her free time she enjoys creating mixed media art and portraits, being outside, trying new breweries and spending time with loved ones.
She has worked with many diverse organizations and especially enjoys working with LGBTQIA+ populations and youth. Before coming to RedLine, Shaunie was a Physical Education teacher at a charter school for several years.
With BFA and a Masters in Public Health- Community Health Education, she is interested in using art as a means to support mental health and well being.
She believes that the experience of creating can be truly enlightening and lead to positive health outcomes and life outlook. It’s only right to share these gifts for the betterment of communities. “Art healing, art is medicine, art is protest, art is self care.”
Leigh is a Colorado native who studied Art History at the University of Kansas. She has spent many years volunteering in various arts and literacy non-profits in Colorado, as well as in New York and Chicago.
As the Art Programs Manager, she collaborates with the Arts Director to ensure program engagement and success—including the Artist-in-residency program, exhibitions, and more.
She believes that through many mediums art can transform communities and prompt social change.
For questions about Art Programming, email: lkargol@redlineart.org
Andre Carbonell, B.K.A Hakeem Furious, is an international performance artist/writer, facilitating artist, and community organizer. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, he’s developing his talents in the Rocky Mountains.
He graduated from a Southern performing arts high school as a theater major, and developed a knack for words as he got involved with the spoken word community established at Florida A&M University, an HBCU that cultivated his understanding, appreciation, and preservation of black culture and resilience.
Currently, he travels the country performing poetry & comedy, curating shows, and fundraising as development coordinator at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
Patty McCrystal is a fiction writer and marketing maven who grew up in Colorado. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Regis University.
Before RedLine, she was the Content Director at BKMedia Group for over 5 years. She’s worked for tribal communities from South Dakota to the Oregon coast, on everything from public health initiatives to grant proposals to assisting in the construction of a training annex for a Lakota-owned solar energy enterprise.
Outside of her role at RedLine, Patty is a writing instructor for the Frames Prison Program through Brink Literacy Project. The goal of the Frames is to increase literacy rates, reduce recidivism, and use storytelling to empower incarcerated persons within the US prison system.
Michelle is a Colorado native who serves as the Operations Manager at RedLine Contemporary Art Center. She supports the care and management of RedLine’s facilities, ensuring the space feels accessible, safe, and welcoming for all who enter.
With a background in customer service and event coordination, Michelle brings a people-centered approach to her work. Guided by kindness and respect, she works to ensure a welcoming and supportive experience for all visitors to RedLine.
In addition to managing building operations, Michelle also serves as RedLine’s Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager—a role she takes great pride in. She enjoys working closely with volunteers and supporting them as they build meaningful connections and community with RedLine.
Michelle earned her degree in Ethnic Studies with a minor in History from the University of Colorado Denver. Through her studies and lived experience, she developed a strong belief in social justice, equity, and community care. She is driven by a belief in equity and social justice, and in creating spaces that uphold dignity, access, and belonging for all.
Omar is an arts professional and community volunteer from Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He brings a rigorous background in visitor experience and volunteer engagement to his role at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.
Prior to joining RedLine, Omar worked at the Clyfford Still Museum, and has contributed to the arts community through extensive volunteer service. He is a Secondary School Tour Docent at the Denver Art Museum, where he also serves as the 2025–2026 Volunteer Lead.
Focused on building meaningful relationships with individuals and communities, Omar is inspired by the way creativity supports personal and collective transformation every day at RedLine.
Tiffany is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of perception, spirituality, and healing.
Through an intuitive and experimental approach, she transforms materials such as clay, steel, and papier-mâché into evocative forms that bridge concept and process.
Each work becomes a meditation on transformation—an exploration of how the tactile and the metaphysical meet.
Tiffany’s practice reflects a deep commitment to creating spaces for connection, reflection, and restoration, where art becomes both a personal and communal act of healing.
Robin is an educator, youth advocate, and nonprofit leader with a passion for fashion and a quasi-Buddhist sensibility.
Before joining the RedLine team in 2011, she spent five years teaching middle school math and visual arts in Aurora Public Schools, as well as one year teaching in Monterrey, Mexico.
Robin holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology, with a focus on mental health in schools, and believes that artists can be powerful agents for social change through education and community engagement.
Over her 13 years at RedLine, Robin has been privileged to work at the intersection of art and social justice, challenging conventional ways of teaching, thinking, making art, and being in the world.