Texas Vignette Board of Directors
Jessica Brit Ingle, President
Jessica is a curator, writer, and art entrepreneur focusing on Texas art. She has worked nearly fifteen years in various arenas throughout the Texas art scene, including major museums, galleries, and private collections. As such, she has a keen understanding of Texas art institutions and their collections and can draw upon a strong network of art professionals throughout the state.
Jessica also has a background in registration and art advising, services which she renders through her business, Ingle Art Consultancy, LLC. She has established archival policies and procedures for multiple public and private collections and is fluent in art acquisition, preparation, and the art market.
Jessica obtained a dual Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Business Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, 2009, and her Master’s degree in Art History from the University of North Texas, 2012. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, specializing in American art, with a particular emphasis on Texas art, photography, and feminism. She has presented at major institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, and has curated exhibitions in institutional, university, corporate, and gallery spaces. She is currently working on a dissertation that surveys Texas women photographers, with the goal of publishing her research as part of a four-book series.
Vanessa Hadox, Vice President
Vanessa Hadox is an arts administrator with nearly 15 years of experience in fundraising and communications. She is currently serving as Director of Development, Institutional Giving at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Prior to moving to Dallas in 2021, Vanessa fundraiser for several arts organizations in New York, including BRIC Arts | Media, Public Art Fund, and Groundswell Community Mural Project.
She has guest lectured at the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, Temp to Perm public art conference, the Van Alen Institute, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals conference. She has led public art tours for the U.S. State Department and the Municipal Art Society.
She is a frequent panelist and proposal evaluator, most recently for the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Vanessa co-founded the NYU Museum Studies Alumni Association in 2014, served as an advisor in the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Emerging Leaders Program from 2018 to 2020, and participated in the Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy Program at the Communities Foundation of Texas in 2023.
Vanessa holds an MA in Museum Studies from NYU and a BA in History from the University of California, Irvine. She lives in Oak Cliff with her husband, cat, and two dogs.
Madeleine Fitzgerald, Treasurer
Madeleine Fitzgerald is an art museum educator in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In the fall of 2018, she became the Manager of Public Programs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
A Texas native, Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Trinity University in San Antonio in 2009, where she also completed a two-year internship with the Registrar department at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Madeleine earned her Master’s degree in Art History with an Art Museum Education certificate from the University of North Texas in 2013. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century art with a focus on post-war American art. While attending graduate school, she was the Treasurer of UNT's Art History Society. Following graduate school, Madeleine was the 2013-2014 McDermott Graduate Student Intern for Public Programming at the Dallas Museum of Art before becoming the Education Coordinator for Programming at the DMA from 2014-2018.
Ester Harrison, Development Chair
Ester Ippolito Harrison is an art historian and social impact leader with over a decade of experience both in the nonprofit sector and in art, museum, and culture institutions. She has a passion for cultural history, research, and problem-solving to develop innovative programs that increase public interest in and community support for historical and cultural assets.
She is an Adjunct Arts & Humanities Professor at Dallas College. Additionally, she is a Meadows Doctoral Fellow in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in Art History at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. Her focus is on the intersection of public art and communities in Latin America.
Ester spent several years working in Europe at various cultural institutions including The Oskar Schlemmer Theatre Estate, the Canterbury City Council Museum, and Berlin Art Link. She has also held roles with the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art, National Park Service, Craighead Green Gallery and the Texas Women's Caucus for Art.
Ester holds an MPhil. in Art History from the University of Kent at Canterbury and BA in Art History with concentrations in Italian and Printmaking from the University of Dallas. She has served as a panelist for several conferences, including presenting symposiums of her research. She is very involved in her community, and serves as an Associate Member of Lakewood Service League. She lives in East Dallas with her husband Matt, daughter Luci, son Theo and their dog Charlie.
Danielle Naylor, Art Fair Director
Danielle Naylor is an art museum educator, programmer, and administrator living and working in the DFW. She currently works as the Director of Operations at The Cedars Union, where she manages the organization’s daily operations and oversees its programs and artist-related communications. With a passion for building connections between people and art, Naylor is an experienced educator in both museum and gallery settings, teaching young children to adults. For over 10 years, she has worked throughout the US creating educational and interpretive material and managing education departments in addition to teaching. In October 2017, she assisted in the opening of The Museum of Street Culture. Naylor received her MA in Art Education, with a focus on Museum Education, in 2016 from the University of North Texas. She received a BA in Art History from UNT in 2013.
Angela Gonzalez Hall, Programming Chair
Angela Gonzalez Hall is a museum educator, executive administrator, and lecturer. She regularly trains museum educators and art teachers on inquiry-based teaching strategies. In 2017, she became the Paula and Jim Crown Director of Learning at Dallas Contemporary, a non-collecting museum located in Dallas, Texas. She oversaw the museum’s educational programs and community outreach and developed programming around the museum’s exhibitions to engage a broad range of audiences, from school-age children and teachers to artists and scholars until 2021. She led teams and programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2010-2017. Prior to her work at LACMA, Hall worked in museum education at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman OK, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center, Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Art History and French from the University of Oklahoma and an MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University.
Mari Ramirez, Communications Chair
Mari Ramirez currently works at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as Manager of Advancement Operations & Analytics, where she is adding to her seven years of database management experience. Previously, she has supervised and enhanced operations at the Nasher Sculpture Center and Dallas Museum of Art.
She received both her BBA’s in International Business Spanish and Marketing from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018. With a passion for art and the desire to connect with those inspired by art, she is thankful for the opportunity to communicate creatively and to be surrounded by a group of amazing and empowering women.
Mari rejoined the board in 2022, after returning from a side quest of teaching English for the community of Madrid. She enjoys playing soccer, documenting memories (via writing and photography) and dancing. You can find her daydreaming in Arlington – growing her garden and making her house a home.
Mandy Engleman, Co-Graphic Design Chair
Mandy Engleman is a graphic designer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the design field, primarily in art and science museums. She has created and managed the in-house design teams at the Dallas Museum of Art and Perot Museum of Nature and Science. She’s currently partner/co-owner of Boldface Studio, a certified woman-owned small business specializing in museum and nonprofit graphic and environmental design. For the past fifteen years she has also taught college courses specializing in graphic design, typography, and portfolio development and currently teaches for the VisCom department at the TAMUC Dallas campus and SMU.
Mandy has a BFA in design communications from Texas A&M University—Commerce and has a wide range of experience in brand development, print, publications, exhibition and environmental design, and creative/art direction. She is lover of all things typographic, colorful, and mid-century and is a softie for dogs and nephews. She lives in Plano with her dog Jojo.
Becca Winti, Co-Graphic Design Chair
Becca Winti is a graphic designer with nearly 20 years of experience. She worked for the Dallas Museum of Art in-house design team for over twelve years and served as Director of Creative Services for three years. For the past nine years Becca has co-owned Boldface Studio, a design studio specializing in museum and nonprofit design and has worked with clients such as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Kimbell Art Museum, San Antonio Museum of Art, Meadows Museum at SMU, Two x Two for AIDS and Art, and The Warehouse.
Becca has a BFA in design communications from Texas Tech University and has a wide range of experience in brand development, print, publications, exhibition and environmental design, and creative/art direction. Becca is an avid gardener and lives in Plano with her husband JT, son Everett, and dogs Crosby and Luna.
Advisory Council
Texas Vignette’s daily operations are carried out by its all-volunteer Board of Directors and committee members. The Advisory Council supports the Board of Directors by providing guidance, advocacy, and connections to needed resources.
Current Advisory Council Members
Katherine Brodbeck, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
Laura Elcock, Philanthropist, Community Arts Advocate, and Director of the Laura and Walter Elcock Family Foundation
Susan Ernst, Philanthropist and Community Arts Advocate
Erika Jaeggli, Artist and Educator
Lauren James, Assistant Director of Development at the Crow Museum of Asian Art
Anne Lenhart, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum
Vicki Meek, Artist, Curator, and Community Activist
Carmen Menza, Artist
Darryl Ratcliff, Co-Founder at Gossypion Investments
Jeremy Strick, Former Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center
Emma Vernon, Director of Marketing and Development at The Cedars Union
Ken Villalovos, Publisher at Arts and Culture Texas magazine