Fernando Masterson (he/him) is an arts marketing professional based out of NYC. He currently serves as New York City Center’s Director of Marketing and most recently served as Ars Nova’s Marketing Director where he oversaw press, sales, ticketing, and marketing operations for all Ars Nova off-broadway productions and one-night presentations. He has dedicated his career to managing marketing campaigns and communications strategies for producing, presenting, and service-oriented performing arts institutions across the country, including The Drama League, The Public Theater, The Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and more. In addition to teaching an arts marketing course at Baruch College, in his free time he enjoys attending live performances, indoor rock climbing, and ranking Broadway’s best and worst house red wines.
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Michelle Lynn is a canadian pianist and singer who performs widely across Europe, is Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, and is co-founder of The Fearless Artist Mastermind. Her zone of genius is getting to the root of the real problems and asking hard questions in a kind way. Michelle is full of enthusiasm and optimism, and believes that artists deserve to earn a good income and should never be their own ceilings. She currently holds positions as Lecturer for Music Entrepreneurship at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam. She graduated from the Université de Montréal with a Master’s and Artist Diploma in piano performance.
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Raquel Costa is a Portuguese award-winning artist, author and illustrator. She has a degree in Fine Arts – Sculpture and a Master’s in Art Education and she has illustrated more than twenty children’s books. In 2024, she debuted into full authorship with the picture book “25 Mulheres”. This book´s illustrations won a Merit Award at the 11th Hiii Illustration International Competition and were juried into the Society of Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibit and Book. This work was also shortlisted as Finalist for the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2025. In 2021, the book “Noa”, written Susana Cardoso Ferreira, was selected for the prestigious White Ravens catalog, by the Munich International Youth Library, shortlisted for the Bologna International Children's Book Fair Illustration Competition and the 7th Hiii Illustration International Competition, and winner of the Bissaya Barreto Children’s Books Award in 2022. Raquel is also co-founder of Little Black Spot Creative Studio, with multidisciplinary work ranging from editorial illustration, concept art and design, to branding and advertising. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and abroad, and runs illustration workshops for both children and adults. She’s currently an invited assistant professor at IPCA College School of Design (Portugal) and is an educator at Adobe in the field of Digital Illustration.
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