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GUEST SPEAKERS
Each month at the Riverside Art Alliance meetings, we have a different speaker on an interesting topic.
Our featured artists and their area of art:
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​September 19, 2024
Riverside Art Museum
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Denise Kraemer, Artist/Educator
Denise Kraemer of Riverside is a native of the Inland Empire. Even before she discovered printmaking, Denise found herself drawn to artists like, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Kathi Kowitz, and Alfonso Mucha. This fascination with their style of work lured her to take her first printmaking class. Like these artists her work tends to be organic in style. Kraemer will tell you that printmaking perfectly unites her analytical left brain and her creative right brain allowing her to process, alter, and develop ideals satisfying her inquisitive nature. Each print lends itself to a finite progression of discovery, which is the driving force of her work.
She served as the Education Curator at the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California for 3 years, where she organizes the adult education programs, monthly lecture series and member critiques. A founding member of RIP, Riverside Independent Printmakers, Kraemer curated the printmaking exhibition Pressed at the Riverside Art Museum and has worked with the museum's "Monothon" workshop and exhibition for 4 years. Kraemer received her BA in Art from California Baptist University and her MA in Art/printmaking at California State University San Bernardino.
This year, she had a solo exhibition at Riverside Art Musuem, has three group shows this summer and worked with the Arts Connection and Mil Tree in Joshua Tree, Ca, teaches an ongoing printmaking workshop at Division 9 gallery weekly, and teaching printmaking at Riverside Community College and California State University at San Bernardino.
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​October 17, 2024
The Cheech
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Margery Haupt
Margie Haupt is Deputy Director – Arts & Cultural Affairs for the City of Riverside’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department. In her current position she has oversight of the City’s arts, public art program, granting program for Arts & Culture Grants and Public Art Grants; the Fox Foundation; the Fox Performing Arts Center and the Fox Entertainment Plaza; The Cheech; Riverside Municipal Auditorium; liaison and representative to and for the arts community; develop, design and implement innovative approaches to deliver events and programs, as well as oversight of special events and sponsorship programs.
Margie Haupt started with the City in January of 2006. In her previous positions, she oversaw event and film permits, City Sponsorship program, and all City events including grand openings, the Fox Foundation’s Inaugural Gala, Downtown Farmer’s Market and the City’s signature event The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa Festival of Lights.
Margie’s experience with local non-profit organizations has helped her establish and maintain relationships among various civic and arts organizations.
Margie’s experience in leading and training started with her non-profit work and continues both for government and industry conferences and trainings. ​
​November 21, 2024
Riverside Art Museum
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Rico Alderette
Riverside native and former union ironworker, Rico Alderette and his wife co-founded MADE.Shop in 2015 and Magnolia Center Marketplace in 2016. Magnolia Center Marketplace has grown to become Riverside’s largest outdoor market providing a direct link to small businesses, new entrepreneurs and the community.​
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​January 16, 2025
The Cheech
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Drew Oberjuerge, Executive Director of RAM
Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Drew Oberjuerge has served as the Executive
Director of the Riverside Art Museum since 2012. A strong proponent of collaboration and community partnerships, she has led with the RAM Board and staff the transformation of the 67-year-old organization to strengthen the sustainability of core programs (collections, exhibitions, art education programs, preservation of the museum’s historic Julia Morgan building, etc.) while embracing new art practices and establishing an award-winning, affordable-housing artist-in-residency, as well as The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum (affectionately known as The Cheech). Under her tenure, the Riverside Art Museum has been recognized with awards from the California Association of Museums, Riverside County Probation Department, the City of Riverside, and the Riverside Downtown Partnership.
Prior to joining the Riverside Art Museum, she served as the Founding Director of the Art Works Gallery in downtown Riverside, a center dedicated to wellness and recovery through the arts. Prior to that she worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy where she was a Dean's Merit Scholar.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature and in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a recipient of a 2019 61st Assembly District Woman of Distinction Award and a 2016 Riverside Arts Academy Leadership Award. She is a member of the Inland Empire Regional Leadership Academy Class of 2018 and Leadership Riverside Class of 2015.
She and her husband Oui have a daughter named Oona who loves art as much as her
parents. ​