Leto Rankine is a long-time Detroit resident and passionate advocate for arts and culture. As Managing Director his strong ties to the city provide a broad network of people-based connections to serve the Foundation’s mission. From his time at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Rankine brings over a decade of hands-on institutional experience in project management, programming, fundraising, and relationship building with community partners, donors, artists, and other stakeholders. 

Outside of the institution, he was active in Detroit’s punk, hip hop, techno, skateboarding, and graffiti scenes from the early 90s with a background in creative writing, fatherhood, and alternative cultural economies.

Olivia Guterson is a Detroit-based transdisciplinary artist and mother who in her practice is thinking about brokenness, refusal, and fugitivity. She choreographs bones, shells, beads, soil, and colors into textures, gestures, rhythms, and offerings that challenge notions of her sense of becoming human as contained and fixed. Her practice is a way of communing with and honoring her Black and Jewish ancestors. In 2024, she received her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has been awarded the 2024 Beau Award, the 2023 Gilbert Fellowship, the 2022 Gilbert Fellowship, and the 2022 Emerging Artist Fellowship. She has held residencies at at McArthur Binion’s Modern Ancient Brown (Detroit, MI); Sibyls Shrine (Pittsburgh, PA); and El Sur (Mexico City).

Olivia is a founding member of ArtMamas Alliance and was the inaugural visual artist for Michigan State Governor Gretchen Whitmer's Juneteenth Proclamation in 2022.  Her work has been shown at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Arab American National Museum, EXPO Chicago, Louis Buhl Gallery, Prizm - Art Basel, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Jewish Artist Salon, Scarab Club, Janice Charach Gallery, and more. Her work can be found in many private collections, as well as public, including the Book Tower (Detroit,MI), the Shinola Hotel (Detroit, MI), and the Zekelman Holocaust Center (Farmington Hills, MI). She is a published author, muralist, and birth advocate.

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Shaina Kasztelan

Shaina Kasztelan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She was raised in a midwest suburb surrounded by rows of identical houses, ever-changing strip malls, and endless fast-food franchises, all of which have influenced the materials and formal signifiers used in her work. Operating between painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, Kasztelan creates psychedelic dreamscapes using kitsch commodities that shuffle between curated control and disheveled mess. Through humorous juxtapositions, her work criticizes the pleasure and disgust many of us feel simultaneously due to the excessive consumption of manufactured goods and media prevalent under late capitalism.

Kasztelan received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2012 and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2024. In addition to her formal education, the artist has worked as a muralist, built theater sets, worked as a prop maker, and spent years building floats for America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Her work has been exhibited at The Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities (Ann Arbor, MI). Notable murals include those painted for the NXNE Music Festival (Toronto, ON), Facultad de Artes y Diseño UNAM (Mexico City, MX), and as an assistant for the Glass City River Wall (Toledo, OH) currently the largest mural in the United States. 


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