Anthony Marcellini (he/him)
PASC Founder and Program Manager
Anthony is an educator, curator, writer, and artist. He has produced exhibitions, lectures, public cultural events, and projects, with a focus on social practice, public art, and disabilities, in cultural venues across the world. From 2004-2007 he was Curatorial Assistant at Art in General, NY. From 2018 to 2020, he was the Programs and Exhibitions Manager of the Friendship Circle Soul Studio. In 2021 Marcellini launched PASC the first progressive art studio in Detroit, and Wayne County MI. Marcellini is also one of the founding members of PASA, an advocacy organization for progressive art studio programs across the US. Marcellini received his MFA in 2009 from California College of the Arts with a concentration in Social Practice.
Evan Mazellan (he/him)
PASC Lead Art Advisor
Evan is an artist who currently works in Metro Detroit, MI. He holds a residency at Buffalo Prescott in Detroit, MI. Upcoming projects include Untitled Art Fair in Miami, FL. with Buffalo Prescott and a two-person exhibition at Diener Gallery in Boston, MA, in December 2026. He earned his MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, in 2024. Evanmazellan.com
Amber B. Nax (she/her)
PASC Gallery Assistant
Amber is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator from Detroit, MI. She earned her B.F.A. from Wayne State University with a focus on Black American and African history, contemporary art, and folklore. Inspired by the way archives reveal the past, validate the present, and inform the future, Amber strives to create connections across these temporal spaces. Through her work, she combines Black studies and art as a bridge to explore and deepen our understanding of shared experiences. Recent projects include curation with PASC, Adler & Adler (Southside Community Art Center, Chicago, 2024), and the ICI Forum Research Fellowship (Chicago, 2024). Amber has been a Gallery Assistant for PASC since 2024; ambernax.art
Kelly Bonifas
Gallery Assistant at PASC Southgate Gallery
Kelly has been the Gallery Assistant at PASC Southgate Gallery since 2022 and also works at the STEP Thrift Store in Southgate. She enjoys artworks that use both traditional and unconventional materials. In her spare time, Kelly creates pop culture-inspired jewelry and watercolor paintings. She especially likes animal imagery and bright colors, which often represent the changing of seasons for her.
Ben Haddix
PASC Art Advisor
Ben is a graduate of the Evergreen State College in Washington, where he studied art and education. Through his work, Ben has maintained a commitment to accessible and inclusive spaces that hold potential for communally generated structures for learning and sharing. This is a commitment that is also reflected in his art practice – short plays and video works that value participation, amateurism, and the process of learning. He lives in Hamtramck with his two cats, Pia and Temple, and many musical instruments. Ben has been an art advisor at PASC since early 2024.
Chloé Hajjar
PASC Art Advisor
Chloé is a Detroit-based artist, storyteller, and dancer whose practice explores the intersections of ancient craftsmanship and contemporary technologies. Her work has been featured at Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI (2026); Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI (2025); The Kresge Foundation, Detroit, MI (2025); Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025), Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC (2024) and in the exhibition Women Artists of the Arab Diaspora, Detroit Historical Museum, (2026). Hajjar earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. Chloé has been an Art Advisor at the PASC since 2022; chloehajjar.com
Eleni Zaharopoulos
PASC Art Advisor
Eleni is an interdisciplinary space creature that was raised in Queens by Greeks. She draws inspiration through collaboration and dialogue, often creating relational work shaped by community, family, and lived experience. She is a three-time recipient of the Queens Art Fund’s New Work Grant (2017, 2019, 2021) and has completed residencies at ARoS Museum, the Wassaic Project, Flux Factory, and York College (CUNY). She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from Brooklyn College, and is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater’s Professional Training Program. She lives in Detroit and has worked as an Art Advisor for PASC since 2023.
Kristi Ternes
PASC Art Advisor
Kristi is a graduate of both the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and "YouTube University", which has launched her into 20+ years of teaching puppet and mask-making, costume and set design, fine arts classes to elders, and co-directing collaborative community outdoor puppet pageants. Her artistic highlights include showing her films at the Walker Art Museum, as a part of Women in the Director’s Chair; participating in the Independent Studio Program at Parsons New School for Design; being a videographer of, and traveling with, the French punk band Dure Mere throughout Europe, and having her 20 person collaboratively created theater show Iron Mermaiden highlighted in an article in American Theatre Magazine, noted as “a fever dream worth experiencing.” Kristi has been an art advisor at PASC since 2023.
Renee Willoughby
PASC Art Advisor
Renee is an interdisciplinary artist creating both individually and collaboratively in Detroit. She has been a resident video jockey for many club/queer events in Detroit, including Femmedom and Siren. She frequently works with local performance ensemble's The Hinterlands and A Host of People. Renee is an art advisor at the Progressive Art Studio Collective, a Wayne County studio collective supporting artists with disabilities, and a Caretaker for local art environment Hamtramck Disneyland.
Emilee Bergum
STEP Skills Trainer - PASC Southgate Studio
Emilee has worked as a STEP Skills Trainer since 2018 and has been part of the PASC program since 2022. A self-taught artist since childhood, she has become an important part of the PASC Southgate studio program. In her role as a Skills Trainer, Emilee incorporates life skills into the artmaking process, supporting artists as they develop both creative practices and everyday independence. Artists in the studio program describe her as a friendly and kind person.
Todd Stevens
STEP Skills Trainer - PASC Westland Studio
Todd is a skills trainer/job coach who brings nearly twenty years of experience supporting adults with disabilities at Services to Enhance Potential (STEP) in the areas of work skills, community integration, advocacy, and, most recently, art production within the Progressive Art Studio Collective. Lacking formal art training, Todd relies on his prior experience assisting artists and creators with professional methods of finishing and presenting their artwork, producing architectural renderings, and handling unique and valuable print materials, documents, and oversized works. Todd studied the English language and Education at Eastern Michigan University. He is a lover of the arts, especially music and abstract media. He brings a fresh perspective to the approaches and processes of the PASC program and is continuously inspired by the invigorating enthusiasm and visions of the members he supports.
TomMarla Day
STEP Skills Trainer - PASC Detroit Studio
TomMarla has been a STEP Skills Trainer for nearly 20 years and is a dedicated disability advocate. In the studio, she maintains high energy and encourages participants to broaden their artistic practice by experimenting with materials and trying new techniques. As a trainer, TomMarla integrates life skills into the art-making process, supporting artists in developing both creative practices and everyday independence. A lover of music, she often incorporates music breaks and karaoke time into the art program.