RAiR Staff

Katelyn Krakauskas, Executive Director

Katelyn has worked for the foundation since 2013. She graduated from Brooks Institute with a BFA in photography and owns her own portrait photography business located in Roswell, NM. Katelyn stepped in as Interim Executive Director in the spring of 2020 and the board officially named her in December of that same year. Katelyn has become involved and adept in all aspects of operations relating to the Foundation. She is working on new fundraising efforts to improve the Foundation’s sustainability, and looks forward to continuing the philanthropic vision of Donald B. Anderson. When Katelyn’s not in the office she has her hands full with two small children.

Larry Bob Phillips, RAIR Program Director

Larry Bob Phillips (RAiR 2009-10) is very familiar with the region and the RAiR Program. He was born in Canyon, Texas; received his undergraduate degree at the Kansas City Art Institute where he studied drawing with Stephen Fleming; graduated with an MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2006, and spent 2010 as a Roswell Artist-in-Residence. Along the way he also opened an art gallery, taught drawing and art history, married photographer Tammy Zibners, exhibited extensively, painted numerous murals, and built and refurbished property in Albuquerque. He comes to RAiR from a position as Meow Wolf’s paint and pigment specialist.

Nancy Fleming, Anderson Museum Director

Nancy Fleming, BFA Kansas City Art Institute and certified NM Art Educator, has worked for the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation in many capacities for 30 years and is currently director of the Anderson Museum. She has an extensive history teaching art workshops and classes for all ages, and assisting with public art projects, non-profit art programs and practically anything art-related in Roswell. With experience in everything from graphics and collages to costumes and floats, Nancy’s creative energies have also helped shape the Miniatures and Curious Collections Museum in Roswell which she co-founded in 2015 – a place that makes use of her “collecting” tendencies and expands Roswell’s cultural offerings.

Tonee Harbert, Digital Media manager

Tonee Harbert (RAiR 2019-20) grew up in Oregon, received a degree in photojournalism from Ohio University and lived in Maine for many years. Harbert brings with him a background in photojournalism, documentary and commercial photography. He won a New England Emmy award for video production. Harbert co-authored with Carolyn Chute, a book entitled Elmer Walker: Hermit to Hero. This photography project was also featured on CBS Sunday Morning. He has worked as a printer in the lab at the Library of Congress, and was director of the Bakery Photographic Collective in Portland, Maine. Harbert's photographs have been published in many magazines and books and have been exhibited at several galleries and museums.