Winter Bosanko is an educator, dance artist and somatic practitioner who received her Master's of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was awarded the Advanced Opportunity Program Fellowship. She was a company dancer for JDT for 7 seasons before becoming Company Manager in 2022. She is thrilled to be in her first year as a professor of dance at Florida State College at Jacksonville. 

As part of her research is grounded in community engagement, she created Winter Dance Projects, a project-based dance collective that creates and collaborates with other artists to bring art and dance to the community. Winter graduated with a BFA from Jacksonville University and made her way back to Jacksonville a few years later, where she most recently taught at LaVilla School of the Arts and was an adjunct faculty member at Florida School of the Arts. Winter, alongside Joshua Mora, created JDT's in-school outreach program, Creative Dance In Schools (CDIS) and has taught Pilates and dance at studios and schools throughout the Jacksonville community, including at Jacksonville Episcopal School, Ponte Vedra Ballet/Fusion Performing Arts Academy, and The Florida Ballet and was Cathedral Arts Project’s Dance Teaching Artist Fellow from 2020-2022.

Leach is a studio ceramic artist and educator; whose sculptures address the social norms and of contemporary society for women. Her work has been exhibited, lectured, and collected at national and international venues. Currently a Professor of Art, Leach serves as the Department Chair and Director of the MFA in Visual Arts at Jacksonville University and is passionate about study abroad and engaged learning at all levels. She specializes in ceramic sculpture with figurative elements, that utilizes wheel thrown vessels as metaphorical references. As well as functional wares that address similar elements and themes.

Leach’s artwork, which consider the human experience, has been exhibited during Rome Art Week in Rome, Italy, selected as one of only 20 international ceramic artists to exhibit in the Du Bol exhibition in Lille, France, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, and Boca Raton Art Museum. Leach has presented at regional and national conferences including SECAC and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, as well as, on the Mother/Artist Podcast series, the National Clay Week platform, and numerous universities and workshop venues. She was selected for an international artist residency at C.R.E.T.A. Rome in 2017 and her work has been featured in the Cummer Museum retail space. Most recently Leach was selected for an artist residency at the Skopelos Art Foundation in Skopelos, Greece. Leach’s work is in over 100 private collections, with acquisitions in Deloitte & Touche’, the Jacksonville Library, and University of North Florida: Art in the Library as one of the leading artists of Northeast Florida.

Studio owner and curator in Jacksonville, Leach holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of Georgia and a B.F.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Kim Kuta Dring, MS is the Director of Learning & Engagement at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, FL. She oversees the Museum’s educational programs, Docents, and community partnerships. After graduating with degrees in biology, Kim started her career in non-profit education at a nature center in Utah. In 2004 she transitioned to a children’s museum where she worked in education and exhibition development and moved to Florida in 2018 to join the Cummer team. During her time with the Museum, she has implemented new programs for adult learners, created hands-on interactives to complement the visual art on view, and spearheaded the strategic initiative Cummer in the Community. All reflect the Museum’s ongoing commitment to providing experiences that embody the values of quality, access, and fun.  

Dr. Marianne Rice, Lory Doolittle Endowed Vice President, Music Education and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives

Dr. Marianne Rice joined the Jacksonville Symphony in 2020 as Director of Music Education and Community Engagement and was promoted to the newly created and endowed position of VP, Music Education and DEI Initiatives in 2021. Dr. Rice supervises all music education programs and serves as key project director on all DEI initiatives including an organizational DEI assessment by an outside consultant, DEI training for board, staff and musicians, and participation in the League of American Orchestras’ Catalyst Fund Incubator program. Dr. Rice represented the Jacksonville Symphony during the 2023 League of American Orchestra Conference by serving as a guest speaker for the Pathways to Equitable and Inclusive session.

Dr. Rice worked at Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, served as Navy School Liaison Officer for Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and served as an education program advisor for Dr. Marlena Smalls and the Hallelujah Singers of Beaufort, South Carolina, and published Music Education Through Gullah: The Legacy of a Forgotten Genre. Dr. Rice holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, a Master of Music Education, and a Doctoral degree in Educational Leadership.

Over the past 20+ years Allison Galloway-Gonzalez has worked with creative non-profits, museums, universities, arts agencies, philanthropists, and artists serving communities through arts and culture. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Glasgow. At UCF she was the faculty director of a K-12 online literacy course for educators. In the early 2000’s, she was the Associate Director of the Austin Museum of Art, The Art School.