Monica Jovanovich-Kelley has been the Managing Director of the haudenschildGarage since 2006 and is a PhD candidate in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Her research in early 20th century art and architecture focuses on urbanism, gender, and the corporate sponsorship of public space in the Americas.

Monica teaches modern art, contemporary art and American art at San Diego State University, Point Loma Nazarene University and the Design Institute of San Diego. She has also worked with the San Diego Museum of Art lecturing on American landscape painter, Asher B. Durand (2008). She was involved with the San Diego Museum of Art exhibition Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the SDMA Collection (2006) and has lectured for the Latin American Arts Committee of San Diego, California (2006). Monica has presented at the annual Art Deco Conference in Los Angeles (2007, Latin American Art Deco) and published in the annual journal, The Sophisticate (2007). In 2009 she was a guest lecturer at the Timken Museum, San Diego about early 19th century American genre painting.