Aaron Timlin, Chairperson/Founder, is an accomplished nonprofit management professional with over two decades experience in the field. He is the current Chair of PuppetART and President of the Chalfonte Foundation. Aaron held the positions of Executive Director for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit and the Detroit Artists Market, and is the founder and curator of detroit contemporary.  He is a graduate of the Kennedy Center’s arts management program and completed New Detroit’s two year nonprofit capacity-building program.  He has also held memberships and offices in several public and private organizations, including the Ferndale Arts & Culture Commission and the Forum for Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others.