Description
Roxana Velásquez is the Maruja Baldwin Executive Director and CEO at the San Diego Museum of Art. Since taking over the role in 2010, Roxana has used passion and commitment to art for all to share, invite, and inspire our region. She chooses beauty and wants each San Diegan to feel pride over the richness of our cultures and the art residing in our communities, museums, and archives.
In this episode of Stop & Talk, Roxana discusses the delicate balance between the past and future in Balboa Park, how art is both a duty and a right of all citizens, and much more.
Hosted by Grant Oliphant
Produced by Crystal Page & Adam Greenfield
Engineered by Adam Greenfield
Recorded in the Voice of San Diego Studio
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