Genevieve Coutroubis

Executive Artistic Director, CFEVA

genevieve@cfeva.org

Genevieve Coutroubis is Executive Artistic Director at The Center For Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA). Genevieve has a long professional career in the non-profit sector working for organizations such as Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago and The Environmental Careers Organization in Boston. She joined CFEVA’s staff in 2001 as the Director of Programming.  In this capacity, Genevieve headed the Career Development Program (now the Visual Artist Fellowship) and has mounted hundreds of exhibitions throughout the region. In 2004, Genevieve established CFEVA’s Regional Community Arts Program (RCAP)—a vehicle to bring substantial social practice and career development opportunities to Philadelphia’s visual artists. In May 2018 Genevieve accepted the role of Executive Artistic Director and President of CFEVA and currently co-directs the organization.

In addition to her role at CFEVA, Gen is a practicing documentary photographer and ethnographer who has exhibited extensively locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work also appears in numerous national and international collections, including SEI’s West Collection. She received her Bachelors of Science in Photojournalism from Boston University and a Masters of Science in Anthropology from the University of PA.