Walter Kitundu is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on sculpture and sound installation, public art and teaching. He builds extraordinary musical instruments and mechanical devices, while researching and documenting the natural world. Kitundu became a MacArthur Fellow in 2008.
Kitundu is a visiting professor in the Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, adjunct Professor at Sierra Nevada College, and recently taught in Northwestern University’s Department of Art Theory and Practice.
Robin Sukhadia brings over 20 years of international community organizing, corporate leadership, program development, music performance, and teaching experience to his project management and fundraising areas of expertise. He currently serves as the Major Gifts Officer at the Colburn School in Los Angeles where he oversees a $10 million endowment fundraising campaign to double scholarships for the school's neediest students.
Prior to his work at the Colburn School, Robin served as the Director of Development and Communications for artworxLA, a 25 year old arts education non-profit serving continuation high school youth. During his tenure, he implemented a fundraising strategy that helped raise over $3 million through foundations, corporations, individuals, and government agencies. Robin earned an MFA in World Music from the California Institute of the Arts. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.