DARYL ELAINE STENVOLL-WELLS, FOUNDER
Daryl Elaine Stenvoll-Wells is an artist, educator, and community arts activist with over 20 years of professional experience in grassroots arts organising. A native Angeleno, she started her public art career designing public art through city-funded programs in underserved communities. She has worked with inner city audiences through periods teaching art in East L.A., Washington, D.C. and the South Bronx, New York.
In 2014 she founded Art Responders, a community for artists to share creative responses to police brutality, in November of 2014. Beginning with the first AR exhibition, VIRAL: 25 Years from Rodney King (2016— retitled ‘Cops, Color and Casualties’), she has conceived and curated programming for Art Responders in the US and UK, including the event series ANTIVIRAL and COLORISM:The Spectrum of Internalised Bias. She currently resides in London and Oslo.
Julia Zeuli
Julia Zeuli has over 20-years’ experience in program design, popular education, and youth leadership development. Her career has prioritized working on issues related to equity and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and socio-economic disparities.
Julia grew up in San Francisco, is the daughter of immigrant parents, and is a native Spanish speaker. Her passion for lifting the voices of oppressed communities, particularly youth of color, come from her deep family roots in social justice and activism.
Julia joined Art Responders in 2015 and facilitates intersectional partnership development with U.S. organizations, school districts, government agencies, and community coalitions to implement grassroots initiatives.
In her spare time, she is developing a Spanish language podcast of culturally relevant children’s stories, gardening, and designing protest signs with her 12-year-old son.
Elena Mencarelli
In 2017 Art Responders welcomed Elena Mencarelli to the organization as Regional Project Manager for Europe. Elena is an art critic and curator who graduated with a Master Degree in Visual Arts from the University of Bologna.
Ms. Mencarelli's curation experience began with exhibitions in 2014 in Melbourne, first for the Make Your Mark Art Collective and then as freelancer. Between 2014 and 2017 she has organized and curated projects in Italy, Australia and San Francisco. Literature, Philosophy and History are important elements of her curatorial activity, enriching her work with an intense conceptual component.
Through her engagement with Art Responders Elena hopes to sustain and promote cultural projects focused on reshaping society through the creative, interactive and upending-subversive approach. She strongly believes in art's power to drive communities toward constructive change.