david therrien info to come...       Helen Hestenes, artist, curator and urban pioneer. Internationally, Helen has had exhibitions and installations, among others, in Mexico, Turkey, West Germany, France, The Netherlands and Spain. Her goal as a curator is to develop exhibitions on an international scale; as the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation USA/Mexico Exchange Grant in 1995, she curated a project of dramatic proportion that involved over twenty artists from Phoenix and Mexico City. Helen is perhaps best known in Phoenix, however, for her Icehouse and her efforts to revive the Jackson Street warehouse district. Since 1989 as a "barefoot developer", she has worked toward a revived downtown maintaining the virtues of community revival, artistic integrity and historical preservation in all that she does. The Icehouse has been the focus of her efforts. Under her creative directorship, this unique space has been used as a location for corporate parties, lectures, ground breaking art exhibitions, large-scale performance works and film and video shoots. Intimately involved with the community, Helen and the Icehouse have also supported numerous philanthropic causes most recently with Invisible Woman, an interactive ice sculpture exhibition for breast cancer patients, survivors and their families, and Mud Floors; Glass Ceilings, a collaborative dance project celebrating the survivors of domestic violence.