Chrisstina Hamilton

Chrisstina Hamilton produces the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series and the Roman Witt Visiting Artist Program, representing the Stamps School throughout the University, and to the community at large. The programs bring to the school a broad spectrum of nationally and internationally regarded artists, designers and entrepreneurs, to engage students, faculty, staff, and the larger University and Ann Arbor communities. The visitors engage in a variety of activities including delivering public talks, performances, working with students, participating in panel discussions, and generating and presenting creative works. She has expanded the Penny Stamps Series to reach beyond the theater with an accompanying digital streaming program accessible to audiences everywhere through partnerships with Detroit PBS, PBS Books, and WNET’s All Arts.

Prior to joining the Stamps School in 2005, Hamilton was the Executive Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the premiere showcase for experimental film since 1963. She started at the festival in 1999 as Managing Assistant Director and assumed the role of executive director in 2002. She initiated the festivals foray into new media and expanded the festival program to highlight exhibitions of installation work, performance art, and moving image salons. During her tenure with the AAFF she also worked as Associate Producer for GLTV/Metrocom International on the Emmy award winning public television documentary “The Sprawling of America”.

Hamilton has served as a member of the Programming Committee for Dlectricity – Detroit’s Nighttime Exhibition of Art & Light, the Programming Committee for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Advisory Board of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Washtenaw County Cultural Leaders Forum, and as a grant reviewer and artist consultant for the Creative Capital Foundation. She is currently a member of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Board of Directors.