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 »
Kelly McHugh recently became 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… Read more »
Michelle Barger is the Head of Conservation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where she oversees conservators with expertise in paintings, paper, objects, photography and electronic media. Developing models of care for contemporary art is of particular interest to her – especially when integrating the role of living artists. Unorthodox approaches to art… Read more »
Joelle Wickens is the Associate 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 Associate Director, her responsibilities focus on curriculum oversight and support of student and faculty learning and teaching. Recent efforts… Read more »
Jen Mergel is a nationally respected contemporary art curator and cultural leader focused on experiential installations that reframe historic, cultural and spatial contexts. She has organized over 50 exhibitions in museum, academic and public spaces at Harvard, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the ICA Boston, the MFA Boston, and most recently for Boston’s Emerald… Read more »
Sonia Almeida is an artist working in Boston and a Fine Arts Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. A through-line in her practice is the artist’s investigation into the ways that language is learned, shared, and adapted through processes of fragmentation and multiplicity. The duality of meaning, communication on the verge of breakdown, resuscitated through context, and the… Read more »
Narayan Khandekar is the Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and the Director of the Center for Technical Studies of Modern Art 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… Read more »
Tory Fair‘s iterative sculptures, drawings, and photographs often feature heaps, layers, and multiplicities that blur the finite and infinite, as loss of singularity becomes an accumulation of trajectories. For three decades, she has explored how the literalness of materials may be transformed to highlight the gap between the tangible and intangible, between physical perception and potential… Read more »
Sam Redman is a Professor in the Department of History, at the University of Massachusetts. He specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. with a focus on cultural, intellectual, and social history. Redman is the author of three books and numerous shorter essays. His books include Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in… Read more »
Gwynne Ryan in an Independent Conservator. Prior to this role, she was the Chief Conservator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, where her responsibilities span the conservation of the outdoor sculpture garden, contemporary sculpture and installations, and time-based media. She received her Masters of Science Degree in Art Conservation from the… Read more »
Jonathan Allen is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, collage, video, and performance. He often collaborates with poets and choreographers and regularly curates art exhibitions at a community center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Allen has exhibited extensively in New York, in both private galleries and non-profit art spaces, and has been awarded residencies at the… Read more »
Christie Mitchell is a cultural worker and contemporary art curator. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, an organization dedicated to providing arts and music resources, exhibitions, art classes, and year-round public programs to the San Diego community. Previously, she worked as an independent curator, and in the curatorial… Read more »