Contact
Address
MoHA is located at 3600 Lyons Rd. Austin, TX 78702
Inquiries
Interested in getting involved at MoHA? Here's a few places to start.
- Open Call
Join our newsletter for upcoming open calls. - Event Proposal
Propose programming or rent the space. - Educational
Fellowships, fiscal sponsorship and other educational opportunities. - Leadership
Apply to be a board or committee member at MoHA and its programs. - Residencies
MoHA offers residencies both online and IRL. - Studio Space
Inquiry for private or shared studio space.
info@themuseumofhumanachievement.com
Staff
Zac Traeger
Executive Director | zac@themuseumofhumanachievement.com | Office Hours Calendly
Zac Traeger is a composer and Executive Director of The Museum of Human Achievement. He has led the organization through 12 years of award-winning programming. MoHA was founded with $4k he saved from teaching piano with no loans or institutional support. In twelve years, MoHA has grown from an informal DIY collective to a 501(c)3 nonprofit grounded in equity, affordability, and accessibility. Zac is passionate about sharing knowledge and resources in support of long-term sustainability and has helped numerous arts, community and social justice organizations establish infrastructure and long-term strategies.
Zac has successfully written over $10m in funding applications including support from the National Endowment for the Arts, TX commission on the Arts, Rally Austin, Capital Impact Partners, People Fund, City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Department, United Way, Mid America Art Alliance, SBA’s Shuttered Venue Operator Grant and EIDL loans. Zac sits on multiple boards including UNESCO Media Arts board for the City of Austin, the Land Use and Code - Cultural Working Group, Urban Land Institute’s Cultural Advisory Board, Unlisted Projects, and the Live in America Festival Facilitator and Support Team.
Since founding MoHA in 2012, Zac oversees MoHA at large with a focus on sustainability and long term vision. Reach out to Zac about supporting MoHA through donations, grants, sponsorships, community partnerships, cool snacks or cats stuff.
Rachel Stuckey
Director of Digital Arts | rachel@themuseumofhumanachievement.com | Office Hours Calendly
Rachel Stuckey is an artist and the Director of Digital Arts at The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX, where she advocates for diverse voices in emerging media arts and indie games. In 2014 she founded the Welcome to my Homepage Digital Artist Residency. She has previously worked as Gallery Director at Women & Their Work, programmer for Experimental Response Cinema, and community organizer for Girls Who Code.
As an artist, she works with new media to explore enthusiasm, confusion, and mystical lore about computers and life online. Her work has shown at Small File Media Festival, Fusebox Festival, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Hyperreal Film Club, Drkmttr, Other Cinema, Film Forum, Echo Park Film Center, daswerk, Slovenski Filmski Center, and elsewhere. Forever a fan of media art residencies, Stuckey has spent time in creating and researching at Laboratory, Signal Culture, and Media Archaeology Lab. She earned an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from University of Colorado Boulder.
Rachel runs MoHA's Digital Arts Programs - net art, media arts residencies, and more. Email her about Welcome to my Homepage, CATS+, digital arts opportunities, digital equity, our Discord server, or anything tech and arts related.
Shannon Stott
Director of Community Abundance | shannon@themuseumofhumanachievement.com | Office Hours Calendly
Shannon Stott is inspired by the magic of communication and community. For over 20 years, as an educator, facilitator and improviser, she has responded to subtle clues that her partners give to communicate in these mediums. She used these unique listening and responding skills to foster relationships between the CDC and local University Educators in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as well as create educational programming on HIV and AIDS for the Tanzanian and American public. Her communication skills have been the foundation of her success in working for the U.S. Department of State, within the creative community of Texas and now as the Director of Community Abundance at the MoHA. Shannon considers effective communication a practice and is motivated to continue this practice to help strengthen the artist community that she is working for and is a part of.
Shannon’s your go-to for learning how to get started or even more involved with MoHA. Ask her about potlucks, studio space inquiries, volunteering, our Fiscal Sponsorship and Grant Writing Support programs, touring the space, community partnerships, or just say howdy, especially if you’re new to MoHA.
Jay Roff-Garcia
Programs and Events Manager | jay@themuseumofhumanachievement.com
Jay Roff-Garcia is an artist and the Programs and Events Manager at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas. Their art practice is transmedia based and functions to create experiential works that express shared personal narratives. Jay is the founder and director of Ruido/Noise, a bilingual organization dedicated to showcasing and supporting transmedia & time-based works through public programming, online releases, and artist support. Their work has shown with Austin Film Society, Big Medium, Co-Labs Projects, Fusebox Festival, Hyperreal Film Club, and Licuadora Alternativa. They earned their BFA at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jay facilitates the events process with organizers and supports MoHA’s programs, behind the scenes and on the ground. Contact them about event inquiries, use of the space for events, workshops, and build outs. They also lead Games Y’all with the Games Y’all Committee.
Tori Reynolds
Production and Facilities Manager | tori@themuseumofhumanachievement.com
Tori Reynolds is a multi-disciplinary artist with a primary focus on producing performance art & theatre. They are the Facilities/Production Manager for The Museum of Human Achievement, and have been Set Designer/ Lead Fabricator for a wide variety of projects. They co-produced/artistically directed ‘Roaming Gender’ - a touring documentary series, creating a platform for queer and trans people to share their stories and build community across the country. In their work, they center and prioritize queer artists and collaboration.
Tor’s our space and tools expert, fixing and building things all around MoHA. For questions, concerns, and head-scratchers about our facilities, studio repairs, general space and tool use, live event production, and volunteer projects, they're the person to contact.
Sarah Corpron
Grants and Development Manager | sarah@themuseumofhumanachievement.com
Sarah Corpron is an arts administration super-nerd and Grants and Development Manager at MoHA. She has worked within the arts sector for over 18 years, supporting multi-disciplinary and live, community-minded projects. When she isn’t researching and applying for grants, Sarah is also the Business Manager and co-owner of a family dental office in Austin, TX. Previously, Sarah was a Cultural Funding Specialist with the City of Austin where she guided artists and organizations through the process of government funding application and worked to redesign and relaunch new, racial equity-centered cultural funding programs. Prior to moving to Austin, TX, Sarah was the Director of Business Services at NYFA; overseeing operations for Fiscal Sponsorship, NYFA Coaching, and other programs. She was also the Programs Director at VAE in Raleigh, NC; managing programs for emerging artists and organizing the annual open-source creativity festival, SPARKcon. Sarah completed her Masters of Arts Administration through Goucher College. In addition to gardening and hiking, Sarah loves talking grants strategies and arts admin with anyone who is willing!
Sarah’s focus is grants and development at MoHA. If you have a lead on a grant or funding opportunity that might suit MoHA, send it her way.
Eriane Austria
Programs Administrator | eriane@themuseumofhumanachievement.com | Office Hours Calendly
Eriane Austria is a multidisciplinary creative and the Programs Administrator at the Museum of Human Achievement, where she draws on her interdisciplinary background in research, creative technologies, and art to support MoHA through backend operations. Previously, she has performed academic research in cognitive neuroscience at Dell Med; developed games as artist, programmer, designer, and/or producer; and took on several leadership roles in operations and outreach for a variety of student-led organizations. Overall, she is a polymath through and through with a love for art-making, exercise, science, and connecting with people through exploring the joys, unknowns, and lived experiences at the intersection of disciplines and identities. Eriane earned her Bachelor's degrees in Neuroscience and Arts & Entertainment Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin and wrote her Polymathic Scholars honors thesis on Digital Globalization and Intersectionality.
Eriane does backend management with data, communications, and programs support at MoHA. Email her about our newsletters, wiki, social media, press, or event documentation.
