Board of directors
Ju - Julia Berrios
Ju a Hispanic American Artist based in Doral-Miami, Florida. She arrived to Miami, Florida when she was 7 years old. As a former special education teacher and a regional educational placement specialist, she worked with special needs and gifted children in Miami-Dade County Public Schools for about a decade. Nonetheless, the art world was always her passion. As a self-taught digital artist, she took every opportunity to travel extensively and learn about art history, modern art, postmodern art and contemporary art as well as post contemporary art.
In 2014 while homebound and bedridden due to Fibromyalgia (Fibromyalgia), ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and (Lyme) disease, she created voluminous collections of digital artworks. JU’s Out of Body Experience (Click) was a catalyst for these artistic creations. She has dedicated her digital artwork to our Divine Creator. Believing life is a Gift, she believes our creator allows us the opportunity to evolve and grow through life’s challenges and obstacles. However, her physical recovery improvement would not have been possible without the medical-care and treatment from Dr. Nancy Klimas and INIM (Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine) at NOVA Southeastern University, in South Florida.
Over and above in 2018 and 2022, she was a Glioblastoma (Glioblastoma) brain tumor and cancer survivor thanks to Dr. Ricardo J. Komotar, a world renowned brain neurosurgeon, University of Miami Health System. As a result, her digital art collections manifested even further to raise world health consciousness thru “COMPASSION in action” and SANARTE Foundation, a non-profit organization was born.
Randy Richardson
An attorney and award-winning journalist, Randy Richardson is a founding member and first president of the nonprofit Chicago Writers Association. He is the first male recipient of the National Federation of Press Women’s Communicator of Achievement Award and was named to NewCity’s Who Really Books in Chicago” list. His essays have been published in the anthologies Chicken Soup for Father and Son Soul, Humor for a Boomer’s Heart, The Big Book of Christmas Joy, Storytellers’True Stories About Love, and Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year, as well as in numerous print and online journals. He is the author of two novels: Cheeseland and Lost in the Ivy, and coauthor of Cubsessions: Famous Fans of Chicago’s North Side Baseball Team, all from Eckhartz Press.
Randy is a writer and a photographer second. Starting in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, he started taking pictures aat daybreak at various locations along Chicago’s North Shore. The images he captured on his iPhone are collectively called The Sun Still Rises.
In March 16, 2023, he has also authored a new amazing novel entitled “ Havana Hangover”. In ‘Havana Hangover’, the author combines love, greed, and heartbreak into a page-turning thriller. If the lure of Cuba calls you and you enjoy a first-rate amazing thriller, don’t miss ‘Havana Hangover.'”
Victor Careaga
Victor grew up in South Florida from the mid 70’s and earned a sports scholarship to the University of Portland in Oregon where he attained Scholar-Athlete recognition by the NCAA. He earned double degrees in business administration and marketing with honors. After that, he enrolled at the University of Florida College of Law where he graduated as a lawyer in 1986. He engaged in private practice for over 25 years and also became a certified judicial mediator.
As a co-founder of SANARTE, Victor shares in the foundation’s vision to act as a vehicle to raise funds in order to impact the health and quality of life of others. As a director, he oversees the day-to-day operations and further the Non-Profit Foundation’s mission. He has devoted a great deal of time, resources, and planning. He follows an inspiring vision of what the nonprofit seeks to accomplish while creating a successful organization.
Artistic Advisory Board
LAURENCE GARTEL
LAURENCE GARTEL, is known to the world as the “FATHER” of Digital Art for over 40-years. His career started working side by side with video guru Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York. He taught Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer in order to produce the album cover for Debbie Harry (Blondie). Growing up in New York City during the Punk Rock era he was friends with Stiv Bators, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone, Wendy 0. Williams, and exhibited his work with Robert Mapplethorpe. Creating Digital Art before the birth of the personal computer his work has been exhibited with the Museum of Modern Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, Guild Hall, Selby Gallery at Ringling School of Art, Norton Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art as well as included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, Bibliothque Nationale Paris and Victoria and Albert (V8A) Museum, London. Gartel received FotoMentor Lifetime Achievement Award from Palm Beach Photographic in 2009.
Gartel has traveled the world exhibiting and projecting his work in Australia, Spain, Ger-many, Italy, as well as going to India, creating a Bollywood Music/Video for Universal En-tertainment. He has been commissioned to produce artwork on Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as for corporations such as Coca Cola, Philip Morris, Walt Disney, Polaroid, Canon USA, Minolta, Olympus, Kodak, National Basketball Association, Gibson Guitars, Bang & Olufsen, Mobil Oil, Commerzbank, SWATCH, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sprint, Budweiser, Roche Pharmaceuticals, and known for the first Digital Advertisement: ABSOLUT GARTEL for Absolut Vodka. His Art can be seen at the Bright-line Rail Station, “Welcome to Miami installation, the Seminole Hard Rock Guitar Hotel on permanent display showcasing the Legends of Rock & Roll” and most recently at the Boynton Beach Amphitheatre commissioned for the Kinetic Biennal.
Gartel was the Official Artist of the 57th Annual Grammy Awards whose one of a kind Grammy Statue resides at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. He is the Artist of the Monaco international Film Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, NASA MMS Mission at Kennedy Space Center and the Feature of the 113th New York International Auto Show and Oslo Motor Show Norway. He has produced over 65 vehicles of which the Carnevale Chevy Art Car is his latest/greatest.
Visit the Artist Website: www.gartelmuseum.weebly.com