homeLA Announces Leadership Transition
Celebrating Chloë’s legacy, welcoming our new team, and looking ahead.
Chloë Flores and guests, Framing the Narrative, homeLA 2025
(Wolford House, Mount Washington) Image: Lena Daly
July 16, 2026
Dear homeLA community,
After seven years of brilliant and visionary leadership, Chloë Flores is stepping down as Executive Director and Curator of homeLA. We are excited for Chloë to embark on new opportunities and know that her commitment to artists, institutional care, and cultural equity will continue to shape Los Angeles arts and culture in meaningful ways.
Chloë’s impact on homeLA has been profound. Through her ambitious curatorial vision, she expanded homeLA into a leading platform for site-responsive performance, forging partnerships with museums, historic sites, architects, educators, and community organizations across Los Angeles. She strengthened the organization’s governance by cultivating an engaged advisory board, expanding institutional partnerships, and building the administrative infrastructure necessary for homeLA’s next chapter.Her leadership has expanded the organization’s role beyond the development and presentation of performance to building the conditions in which artists, institutions, and communities can engage performance in deeper and more equitable ways. Through Shared Practices, co-developed with Dorothy Dubrule, she has advanced equitable working practices for performance in visual art contexts and strengthened relationships between artists and institutions. Through inSITE, she has championed place-based learning that invites young people to engage critically and creatively with their city. And through The We in Me, she has fostered community-centered projects that explore belonging, housing, and social connection, demonstrating how performance can enrich civic life and public dialogue.
Since 2013, homeLA has expanded our collective understanding of home through performance, dialogue, education, and advocacy. We remain committed to the artists who have trusted us with their ideas, the hosts who have opened their spaces, and the partners, collaborators, and supporters who have sustained this work over the years. As we look ahead, we are energized by the possibilities before us and committed to ensuring that homeLA continues to be a vital platform for artists and the communities we serve. We are also grateful that Chloë Flores will remain involved as a dedicated member of homeLA’s advisory board, alongside Rebecca Bruno, Kimberly Meyer, taisha paggett, Mara McCarthy, Jia Yi Gu, Jenny Landers, and Nicole Robinson.
We are also incredibly excited to announce that Bernard Brown and Samantha Mohr have stepped in to steward homeLA as interim co-directors. Bernard and Samantha are two dance artists with long-standing roots in the organization and have been instrumental to homeLA’s growth over many years. In addition to performing with homeLA in its early years, Bernard has served on our advisory board since 2019, and Samantha has led our education program since 2020. Together, they bring institutional knowledge, a profound understanding of homeLA’s values, programs, and community, and a continued commitment to its mission. Bernard will lead the organization’s curatorial work, while Samantha will oversee executive leadership and operations. Andrew Mandinach, homeLA’s longest-serving team member, will continue as homeLA’s Social Media + Documentation Manager, shaping its public voice and preserving our archive. With projects on the horizon—including a new artistic program at the Thomas Mann House curated by Bernard Brown with artists Harmony Holiday and Briana Mims this November, our advocacy work on Shared Practices with ICA LA, the next iteration of inSITE in 2027, and several pending grant proposals—we are thrilled that homeLA will be guided by such thoughtful and capable leaders, who will lead the organization through this transition with the same creative and conceptual rigor that has defined its work.
“I have immense gratitude for Chloë as the director and curator of homeLA and as a person. Her singular vision and empowered action unfurled aspects of the project not yet imaginable. Like everyone else, I’m thrilled for her professional development as well as her partnership on the homeLA advisory board. While transitions naturally bring change, I have faith in the unmatched artistry, spirit and people anchoring this project. I am fully confident that homeLA's next phase will bring something purposeful, important, and beautiful.” - Rebecca Bruno, homeLA founder
“Leading homeLA has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. I am endlessly grateful to the artists, partners, hosts, audiences, staff, advisors, and board members who trusted this organization to imagine new possibilities together. The feminist, queer, and deeply de-colonial values that have shaped my work found a home here because of this extraordinary community, and I carry those lessons with me into everything that comes next.” - Chloë Flores
As we shape homeLA’s next phase, we are taking the time needed to make decisions that honor the artists, communities, partners, and supporters who have built this organization. In this moment of politically motivated attacks on the arts and increasing fiscal precarity for small organizations like ours, the homeLA advisory board is committed to stewarding this transition with care and intention. We remain committed to keeping art/dance/performance alive in Los Angeles and to strengthening homeLA’s roots because there has never been a more important time to support artists who challenge power, cultivate collective imagination, and insist that another future is possible.
With gratitude,
homeLA Advisory Board
