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 »
Kate Moomaw-Taylor is the Senior Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum, where she has attended to the needs of modern and contemporary objects, outdoor sculpture, and time-based media since 2011. In her work, she seeks to take a holistic and practical approach that centers people and relationships to provide the… Read more »
Eddy Colloton is media conservator and consultant working with art museums to preserve time-based media artworks since 2011. Colloton received his MA degree from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University in May 2016. Colloton has previously worked as Project Conservator of Time-Based Media for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Assistant Conservator at the Denver Art… Read more »
Jennifer Hickey is the Paintings Conservator for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A specialist in the study and treatment of 20th and 21st century paintings, she has previously held positions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the National Gallery of Art, among others. Jennifer’s research has focused… 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 »
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 »
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 Boston-based contemporary art curator and cultural leader working to expose her hometown’s histories and collaboratively reimagine its futures through an equity and empowerment lens. She has organized more than 50 exhibitions for museum, academic, and citywide venues. Her recent curatorial projects have focused on Boston’s Black Feminisms, Exquisite Corpse… 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 »
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 »