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About Us
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What is SPACES?
SPACES—Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments—is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) public benefit organization that was incorporated in 1978 for the purposes of identifying, documenting, and advocating for the preservation of large-scale art environments. Founding Director Seymour Rosen conceived of SPACES as a national (and, later, an international) organization; currently operating out of offices in northern California, it boasts an archives of approximately 25,000 photographs as well as numerous books, articles, audio and video tapes/DVDs, and artists documents.
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Jo Farb Hernandez – Executive Director
Jo Farb Hernandez, a 30+-year veteran of the art world, is Director of the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery in the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University and Director of the SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments) archives. She earlier served as Director of the Monterey Museum of Art (1985-93), and concurrently as President of the statewide California Association of Museums (1991-92). She has also taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1999-2000), directed the Triton Museum of Art (1978-85), and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Dallas Museum of Art (1975-76). She is a member of the International Editorial Board for Raw Vision magazine, the Executive Board of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and the International Advisory Board for the Fred Smith art environment. She has served on the Advisory Board for the Fund for Folk Culture, and has been a panelist for the California Arts Council and the U.S. Information Agency. Since 1994 Hernandez has also pursued selected curatorial projects on a freelance basis through Curatorial and Museum Management Services, her consulting firm for nonprofit arts organizations.
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Seymour Rosen – Founding Director
“There is something out there.”
With these words Seymour Rosen, Founding Director of the nonprofit organization SPACES, helped to introduce the world to the aesthetic genre of art environments —a genre that now has become broadly recognized, respected, and the subject of numerous exhibitions, films, articles, and books. In many ways Rosen was a most unlikely candidate either for parenting the institutionalization of a genre or for amassing and archiving the tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and ephemera associated with it. Nevertheless, he pursued legitimizing, preserving, documenting, and protecting these arts for some fifty years, until his untimely death in September, 2006 at the age of 71.
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