Ursula Davila-Villa is the co-founder of Davila-Villa & Stothart (DVS). DVS works alongside artists, their families and galleries to develop sustainable and actionable legacy strategies that prioritize the unique needs of the artist or estate, specifically aiming to support the artistic legacies of historically marginalized or unconventional artists. Her previous roles include being a Partner… Read more »
Robin Li is a historian and writer, working on a book project currently titled, “How We Remember & Other Stories.” Recently, Robin completed the first phase of an oral history project for the University of Washington Women’s Center documenting the lives and impact of Asian American women activists in Seattle over the last forty years. Prior to this, she… Read more »
Laura Phipps is the Director of the Gochman Family Collection, one of the most influential and largest collections of contemporary Native American art in the world. Through supporting artists and sharing their work, GFC aims to foster dialogue, encourage exchange, and contribute to a broader, more nuanced worldview of contemporary Indigenous creative expression. Previously, Phipps… Read more »
Eliza Naranjo Morse is a multi-disciplinary artist from Northern New Mexico. Her work spans painting and sculptural work, land-based practices and institutional engagement with collections and programming. Naranjo Morse has worked with major institutions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Museum of the American Indian, and the Museum of Contemporary Native… Read more »
Peter Oleksik is a Media Conservator who has been working at MoMA since 2011 to conserve the Museum’s vast collection of time-based media, leveraging his extensive knowledge of analog and digital artistic practices. Outside of MoMA, Oleksik regularly writes and lectures on topics within time-based media conservation and works with artists such as Fugazi, Sonic… Read more »
Joelle Wickens is the Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) and an Assistant Professor of Preventive Conservation in the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware. As WUDPAC Director, her responsibilities focus on curriculum oversight and support of student and faculty learning and teaching. Recent efforts in these… Read more »
Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including… Read more »
Marie Watt is an American artist whose work draws from history, biography, protofeminism, and Indigenous principles. She is concerned with the intersection of history, community and storytelling, and addresses how multi-generational and cross-disciplinary conversations create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe. Ms. Watt holds an MFA in Painting and… Read more »
Kelly McHugh is the Head of Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian. Prior she served as the Head of the Collections Care and Stewardship department and as an Objects Conservator in the NMAI Conservation department. She began working for the museum in 1996 at NMAI’s Research Branch facility in NY. Kelly focuses… Read more »
Daisy Nam is the director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco, which opened their new galleries on the expanded campus in Fall of 2024. Previously, she was at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space dedicated to supporting artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions, first as the curator in 2020 and then… Read more »
Dr. Rosanna Flouty is Director of NYU’s Museum Studies program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Clinical Associate Professor. She holds over twenty-five years of museum experience, including at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Art21, BMW Guggenheim Lab and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has also completed year-long… Read more »
Narayan Khandekar is the Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums, and Lecturer on the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Melbourne and a Post-graduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Courtauld Institute… Read more »