The Briarcombe Institute
Current Campaigns
Artist Residency
The Artist Residency Program at The Briarcombe Institute is reopening. Join our mailing list to stay up to date on our latest announcements.
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The Resilience Project
The Resilience Project is an initiative of The Briarcombe Institute to foster new works that shine light on the experiences of women and their narratives. More information to come.
Latest News
TBI Team
Founder
Caterina Fake
Caterina is an investor at Yes VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund, the host of the #1 Tech Podcast Should This Exist? addressing the question of our times: how is technology impacting our humanity? Caterina works to create cultures of innovation, creativity and civility and believes we can all make the internet a kinder, more human place. She founded The Briarcombe Institute to support artists and cultural organizations working in fields such as music, visual art, film and video, writing and performance. Previously she served as Chairman of Etsy and was the co-founder of Flickr.
Board Member
Amanda Hughen
Amanda Hughen is a visual artist who lives and works in San Francisco. Hughen/Starkweather, her 20 year collaboration with artist Jennifer Starkweather, has shown internationally including commissions by SFMOMA, the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, Samuel Merritt University, among others. Their research-based work centers around water and investigates engineered landscapes impacted by climate change.
Program Director
Katarina La Poll
Katarina is a poet, performer, and teaching artist from the San Francisco Bay Area now residing in Brooklyn, New York. After working in communications and development at an environmental nonprofit and ghostwriting for a publishing company, Katarina joined The Briarcombe Institute to expand arts programming and manage the artist residency program. She also currently co-facilitates a generative writing workshop called Personal Histories.
