Board & Staff
Janie Askew
Janie Askew is an artist, educator, curator, and joined the Redux team late September 2011. She received a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Georgia and a BFA in Printmaking from East Carolina University. Janie’s past experiences range from instructing studio art courses at the University of Georgia to curating various art exhibitions, including a contemporary drawing show at the MOCA Expansion Gallery in Atlanta. She is passionate about Redux’s mission and is excited to enter this era of tremendous growth. As a practicing artist and current instructor at Redux, she is knowledgeable of the diverse needs surrounding Redux’s studio and educational programming.
As the Executive Director at Redux, Janie is responsible for maintaining, overseeing and developing all programming. This includes curating exhibitions, artist in residence programming, planning film screenings, lectures, classes, workshops and other educational outreach.
When not at Redux, Janie enjoys taking her Chihuahua backpacking and continuing her artistic practice. Janie has been featured in Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design: a publication ran out of New York, NY. Janie’s recent exhibitions include: the Bradley International Print Exhibition, in Peoria, IL, at Kleio Projects, New York, NY, MOCA GA Expansion Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN, Wellington B. Gallery, Greenville, NC, and the Rainbow Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY. She is included in the special collections at Yale University, New Haven, CT and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Stephanie J. Coakley
Prior to joining Redux Contemporary Art Center, Stephanie worked as the Director of Education and Community Partnerships with the Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona, a position she held between June 2004 and June 2011. Before her desert adventure, she worked with the Gibbes Museum of Art for nearly five years as the Education Assistant and later as the Programs Manager.
As Director of Education and Community Partnerships, she co-founded the Museum School for the Visual Arts, a unique high school located on the grounds of the art museum, expanded programs and studio art classes and workshops, and initiated several community partnerships including working with the University of Arizona, Tucson Unified School District, Tucson Medical Center, and Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind. Stephanie’s work in Tucson also included managing a 20,000 sq. foot Education Center, including a darkroom, art library, printmaking studio, ceramics and sculpture facility, and 5 studio art classrooms.
In Tucson, in addition to developing art programs for all ages in conjunction with 12 – 18 exhibitions a year, Stephanie raised funds necessary to maintain the department’s ambitious commitments, including receiving a $50,000 grant from MetLife Foundation and $50,000 grant from the Hearst Foundations. Throughout Stephanie’s time in Tucson, she secured substantial support from individuals and family foundations. Stephanie has also served as a Board member with Dinnerware Art Space and a grant panelist for the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Between 2005 and 2011, Stephanie served as a regional representative Board member with the American Association of Museum’s Education Committee.
Stephanie graduated from the University of Connecticut earning a B.A. degree in Art History and English. At Redux Stephanie will oversee all grantwriting and fundraising projects, membership, marketing, facilities operations, finance/bookkeeping, and the summer art camp.
Josh Silverman
Josh Silverman works as a wealth management advisor and as a DJ, and has been a patron of the arts for as long as he can remember. He is a graduate of the Williams College masters program in the History of Art, and has had a diverse career working with entrepreneurs and the creative class. His interests also include cooking, local economic initiatives, and Soul music from 1960-1979.
Samuel S. Logan lll, AIA
Mr. Logan was born in Charleston, SC and grew up in Philadelphia. Since receiving his BA in English Literature from Cornell in 1966 and a Master of Architecture in 1970 from University of Pennsylvania, he has practiced architecture for the past 40 years in Charleston. He has served on the Board of Architectural Review for 9 years, and presently serves on the board of the National Trust property, Drayton Hall. He also is a photographer who has had 8 solo exhibitions and a book of his images published. To learn more about Mr. Logan, please visit www.loganfoto.com.
Ashley Guinnin
Ashley Gunnin is a College of Charleston graduate with a degree in Business and Marketing. She previously worked for Fishbait Marketing and the BB&T Charleston Wine + Food Festival and was Special Events Manager for the South Carolina Aquarium for nearly seven years. For the past 18 months she was the general manager of Lowndes Grove for Patrick Properties.
Megan Aline Lange
Megan Aline Lange received her BFA from the University of New Hampshire. She complemented the humanistic study of literature and art with the practical skills of business administration while attending the Universidad de los Andes in Venezuela, Regent’s College in London. In 2003, Megan and her husband Robert Lange moved to South Carolina to open Robert Lange Studios, better known as RLS. To learn more about Megan, please visit www.robertlangestudios.com.
Stacy Huggins
Stacy Huggins is the marketing director and writer for Art Mag. Previously she was gallery director at Charleston Renaissance Gallery and Carolina Galleries. Stacy studied art history and dance at the College of Charleston. She found her passion for visual art and the gallery world while studying Gallery Fundamentals at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. In addition to serving on the Redux board, Stacy is on the Spoleto SCENE steering committee and the American Heart Association Heart Ball auction committee.
Celia Gibson
Celia was born and raised in the southeast. She received her BA from Emory University in English and Art History. Her master’s studies at University College London focus on visual art in modern and postmodern British literature. Over the last five years in London, Celia worked in arts publishing at the Tate and the Royal Academy of Art. In 2010, she moved back to the states to join Moran Woodworked Furniture as a partner.
Geoff Richardson
Geoff Richardson is a Charleston native, co-owner of Lava Salon & founder of the chART (Charleston ART) Outdoor Initiative & Gallery, both located in Avondale, West Ashley. His endeavors within Charleston’s art community over the years include as a former director/actor/producer of Short Plays On The Side (SPOTS) and Improv performer at Theatre 99, as well as presenter, host and committee member for the creative based Pecha Kucha events. His favorite saying is “you know what we could do….” According to his filter, er wife, Noel – “Only 1 out of every 98 new ideas a week will ever see the light of day.”
