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Education
M.A. Master of Art History (in progress)
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Concentration: Art of the Americas
Research Interests: Route 66, American Landscapes & Architecture, Critical Cartographies, Collective Memory
Advising committee: Marcella Ernest, Ph.D. (chair); Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D; Kevin Mulhearn, Ph.D.
Expected Graduation: December 2024
B.A. Bachelor in History of Art and Visual Culture, 2022
The University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Concentration: Curation, Heritage, and Museums
Thesis: Fanning Flames: Incendiary Documentary and the California Wildfires;
Advisor: Kyle Parry, Ph.D.
Awards and Honors
Graduate Pictorial Research Fellow, The Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, 2023-2024 (Current).
Sole archivist of CSWR's Jane Bernard and Polly Brown Route 66 pictorial and oral history collection, with extensive experience in digitization of delicate photographic materials (original slides), prints, and obsolete audio formats (cassette tapes).
Clare Wedding Scholarship, Curatorial Internship, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of California - Santa Cruz, 2021-2022.
Twice-recipient of the Clare-Wedding Scholarship, supporting my employment as a gallery assistant and student curator at the Sesnon Gallery.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Assistant, Professor Justine Andrews, The University of New Mexico
Spring 2024
Introduction to Art History; responsible for grading and record keeping of 40 students
Graduate Assistant, Professor Aaron Fry, The University of New Mexico
Fall 2023
Introduction to Art History; responsible for grading and record keeping of 40 students
Graduate Assistant, Professor Beth Norwood, The University of New Mexico
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
Introduction to Art History; responsible for grading and record keeping of 40 students
Publications
Book review of "Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors", Hemispheres: Visual Culture of the Americas, vol. 15, Fall 2023. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hemisphere/vol15/iss1/8/
“A Thousand Miles from All the City Lights”: Twice-Behaved Movement and Embodied Memories in 'I remember that big ass tree'. (November 2023) Catalog: Don't Let the Lyric Get in the Way of the Groove [artist: Marlene Tafoya; UNM MFA Thesis Exhibition], Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Connective Tissue” (May 2023) Catalog: Connective Tissue: Environment, Ecology, Body [UNM MFA Graduate Arts Association Juried Exhibition, curator: Christian Waguespack], Sanitary Tortilla Factory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“10x10: 10 Women 10 Prints” (March 2022) Exhibition text: 10x10: 10 Women 10 Prints [artists: Juana Alicia, Kim Anno, Claudia Bernardi, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Yolanda Lopez, Ruth Morgan, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems], Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California.
Selected poems in Chinquapin Literary Magazine, UC Santa Cruz (volumes 41, 42, and 43), 2020-2022
Professional Presentations
Home in the Archive: Cruising the Jane Bernard & Polly Brown Route 66 Pictorial Collection, Center for Southwest Research Student Symposium, April 9 2024, University of New Mexico.
"Sacred Spaces, Sacred Architecture: Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan" Guest presentations for Dr. Justine Andrews, ARTH2100 "History of Art I", April 5 and 10 2024, University of New Mexico.
"Zines in Praxis: An Indigenous Feminist Art History Approach to Collective Knowledge-making", American Indian Studies Association Conference, February 1 2024, University of New Mexico.
“Constructing Yosemite: Colonial Placemaking through 19th-Century Landscape Photography”, UNM Art History Graduate Symposium, September 7 2023, University of New Mexico.
Forthcoming presentations:
College Arts Association, February 2025, Hilton Midtown, Manhattan, NYC.