Fernando Maneca is a designer, curator, mentor, and arts administrator/marketer. For the past two decades, he has held leadership positions, consulting, and mentorship roles in various venerable NYC cultural institutions such as BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New Dance Alliance, Pentacle, Exploring The Arts, and New Yorkers for Culture & Arts, among others. In his former life as a performing artist, he created all manner of things, including performances for the stage, site-specific work in parks, bars, and empty office buildings, theatrical sets, costumes, soundscapes, music compositions, and video projections. He received an MFA in Dance Performance & Composition from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, a BA in Liberal Arts & Dance from Rhode Island College, and an AS in Architectural Drafting from Hall Institute. When he’s not at work, Fernando enjoys all things Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek, cooking for his family, and barebow archery.