Robinson Holloway

CEO ARTS 14C

Robinson Holloway is the Founder and CEO of ARTS 14C.

She created Art Fair 14C as an initiative of the Jersey City Arts Council in 2018 while serving as founding Chair of the Jersey City Arts Council Board of Directors.

Holloway serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the London-based global organization Association of Women Art Dealers.

She is also involved in her community, serving on the Board of Directors of the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce as well as co-chair of the HudsonGives Steering Committee.  She is also the Vice President for Communications for the Village Neighborhood Association.

Her focus on the arts came after a long career in sports journalism, focusing on PGA Tour coverage for Sports Illustrated, ABC Sports, ESPN and Golf Channel. She continues to work in television one day a year, writing the script for ABC’s coverage of the Rose Parade.

You can contact her at [email protected] or (1) 917-859-4947

Gretchen Von Koenig

Deputy Director ARTS 14C

Von Koenig is a Ph.D. Student in Design History. She holds her MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and is an adjunct professor of design history at Parsons School of Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Kean University.

She was a curator and grant writer for the Apple Tree House in the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Jersey City and has worked as a design writer and editor for Metropolis Magazine, Cooper Hewitt, and Plot(s) Journal of Design Studies. She has presented original scholarship and chaired sessions at the annual conferences of Design History Society, College Arts Association, and The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, and been featured in the NYTimes.

Von Koenig is on a leave of absence in 2025

Sophie Couche

Deputy Director ARTS 14C

Couche is a program and artist manager with 10+ years of experience in the global arts and culture space. From international art shows in Paris and Sydney to cult-classic food institutions in New York, she has helped produce a variety of events by working with a diverse group of artists and patrons throughout her career.

Couche holds a BA in Middle Eastern Arts and French from Monash University, Australia.

Diana Burroughs

Executive Director Project 14C

Born and raised in Boston, Diana graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin. After spending two years in Egypt, where she taught in a private elementary school and successfully competed in the equestrian world (she won best dressage rider in Egypt), she returned to New York. There she worked at the American- Arab Association for Commerce and Industry. Diana returned to school and got her MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies (China’s relations with the Arab world) at Princeton.

She was the receipient of a Domestic Fullbright for four years while at Princeton. She worked for a number of years in the art world, where she was president of Jason McCoy Inc., a contemporary art gallery. In the mid-90s she left the art world and became involved in education, first as co-founder and executive director of PENCIL, then as Manhattan Deputy to the Chancellor of the Board of Education, and finally as the co- founder and executive director of TeachersCount. She returned to the art world to work with the Robert Miller Gallery (two years), and Marlborough Gallery (eight years) before returning to the Jason McCoy Gallery. Diana is the mother of three children.

Sittra Omer

Director of Development

Sittra Omer joined ARTS 14C in January 2025 after working in fundraising and major gifts at Hip Hop General Health and most recently the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Emily Yourman

Communications Manager

Emily Yourman joined ARTS 14C in January 2025. She graduated from Kenyon College in 2024, Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with a BA in English and Spanish. She trained in journalism at the School at the New York Times with honors and worked as an editorial associate at the Kenyon Review.

Celesté Marchbanks

Operations MANAGER

Celesté Marchbanks joined ARTS 14C in December 2024 as part-time Operations Manager.

In addition, they are an Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University School of Business Administration teaching strategy and marketing classes.

In the past Marchbanks has served as the Secretary of the Board of Directors for BreakIT (Breaking Institutional Trauma), a non-profit entrepreneurial incubator that serves both the LGBTQ+ community as well as those who have been negatively impacted by the justice system.