Jim Nikas
Educator, producer, and screenwriter Jim Nikas is founder and Director of the privately held Posada Art Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacies of Mexican artists José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, mainly in the United States but internationally as practicable. Since 2003, Nikas has loaned and curated works from the Foundation’s collection at dozens of venues, including: Stanford University, East Los Angeles College, Museum of Latin American Art, The Mexican Museum, the International Print Center, Mexican Consulates, and the San Francisco Art Institute, to name a few. Beginning in 2019, the Posada Art Foundation formed a joint venture between the Catalina Island Museum and Landau Traveling Exhibitions, establishing an ongoing touring exhibition of Posada’s works. Nikas has lectured in the US and in Mexico on various aspects of the art, from Day of the Dead to the influence of José Guadalupe Posada on today's social-movement imagery. Together with film director Victor Mancilla, Nikas co-produced the first major English-language documentary film about José Guadalupe Posada, Searching for Posada—ART and Revolutions (2014) and is co-screenwriter for the documentary The Needle and the Thread (in post-production by Eravision Films) about the life of Franciscan nun María de Jesús de Ágreda. Nikas is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Documentary Film Institute Board at San Francisco State University and served on the board of directors of the Coro Hispano de San Francisco. He divides his time between San Francisco, CA and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
