EYEBEAM: From the Rupture

Kara Gilmour is the Executive Director of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange a multigenerational arts organization placing education, performance, and artistic process at the intersection of arts and social justice. Kara has decades of experience in arts education, administration, community engagement, and fundraising, and a strong focus on equity building. She joined BAX from Gibney, a Downtown NYC arts organization, where she was the Senior Director of Community Action and Strategic Initiatives. Her work at Gibney focused on innovative partnerships with artists, survivors of intimate partner violence, and disabled dancers alongside, foundations, city agencies, community-based organizations, and collegial institutions. Previously, at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Kara founded the Education and Stewardship programs and spearheaded the Conservancy’s first Capital project, the Environmental Education Center. She has also worked with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Applied Research and Consulting, Education Development Center, Lincoln Center Institute, and Planned Parenthood. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University, was a 2016 New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow and a 2017 Advocate of New York City.