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Connie Mendoza is an artist and arts educator from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Business with a MA in Arts Management. At Self Help Graphics, Connie is an active member of the Barrio Mobile Art Studio (BMAS) cohort where she travels to neighborhoods across Southern California and connects through arts education in alternate public spaces. Her work was recently featured in “Seeing Chicanx: The Duron Family Collection” at the Monterey Museum of Art. As an ArtTable fellow, Connie is thrilled at the opportunity to fully delve into curatorial operations at ASU Art Museum.

Alison Siegel is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, researcher, and martial artist. They graduated in 2023 from Barnard College with a B.A. in Art History and Visual Art and significant coursework in Chemistry and Environmental Science. Alison works at the intersection of art, community, and environment. They are interested in the role of art nonprofits and artists in building connection, engagement, and understanding of urban social-ecological systems. Alison was a 2022 C2C Sustainability Leadership Fellow at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. They designed an educational model of carbon sequestration with the Columbia Climate School in 2021. In the fall of 2023, they held two internships at two Brooklyn-based art nonprofits. Alison served as Operations Intern at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), a residency program that supports the creative development of emerging and mid-career artists and curators. They developed educational curriculum for BioBAT Art Space (BBAT), an artist-led nonprofit exhibition space dedicated to BioArt.

Alison’s artwork explores ecological themes and natural materials. Their written and visual work has been published by Finishing Line Press, Quarto Magazine, Echoes Magazine, and the Barnard Bulletin. Their artwork has been exhibited at the McHarg Gallery at Barnard College, Postcrypt Gallery at Columbia University, Artvisim @ CUNY Summit for Peace & Justice at Macaulay Honors College, and Caffeine Underground.

Hanna Choi (she/her) is a Museum Professional based in New York. With a focus on art making within the context of resistance; she’s interested in work in and about diasporic communities and their socio-political intricacies. She is a recent graduate of New York University, earning her BA in art history with a minor in social and cultural analysis. Choi is currently a Visitor Experience Associate at the Rubin Museum of Art, and has previously worked as a Collections Management Intern at the Southampton History Museum.

She hopes to learn more about how cultural institutions continue to adapt to accommodate visitors of all kinds, as well as, facilitate meaningful exhibitions that highlight marginalized artists and their works.

Vega Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently an M.A. student at the Bard Graduate Center for the study of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Her research interests include textile and fashion history, with a particular focus on South Asian textile production and global trade in the early modern period. Prior to starting graduate school, she worked at various arts and humanities institutions based in Austin, Texas.

Paige Miller is an art historian and researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of words and images. Earning her MLitt at the University of St Andrews and studying under Dr Linda Goddard, she became interested in the complex relationships between artist’s letters, diaries, and other written materials, and their visual work. There are many insights and perspectives that can be found within artists’ writings. She views artist diaries as directly dialoguing with their artistic production. Paige is looking forward to joining the Carolee Schneemann Foundation and working with Carolee Schneemann’s diaries, opening up public access to this body of written work for the first time and being a part of the team sharing her story in a new light.

Christian “Chris” Adegbaju is from Clayton County, Georgia. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. She recently left law school to pivot back into writing and more artistic spaces. She is particularly passionate about personal stories and vignettes that center Black femme and queer experiences. When possible, she aims to share some of these moments of life through an intimate lens that documents our history at large. Chris is currently a coordinator at The Ke’nekt Cooperative and a part of the Inaugural Queer History Field Kit Initiative with Invisible Histories, where she, along with her research partner, is seeking to digitize and preserve the stories of gathering spots for Black Lesbian and WLW spaces in metro-Atlanta. In her spare time, she likes reading Zeba Blay, eating something with extra sauce, talking about absolutely nothing with her friends, and organizing something.

Gabrielle “Gabby” Vazquez is a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent whose creative work and research center indigenous politics, methods of identity reclamation, Latinx & Caribbean visual culture, and material culture & dress. She continually expands upon her fashion-as-art approach to design with intentions of bridging gaps between creative mediums and anthropological research. Vazquez holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons: The New School for Design where she began an ongoing project for her thesis entitled “The Awakening of Diasporic Memory through Taíno Visual Culture.’’ This interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of language, notions of materiality, and Spanish Caribbean history. Similar themes were explored while a Master’s Anthropology student at The New School between 2020-22. As a curator, Vazquez has spearheaded the development of two exhibitions memorializing the collaborative experimentations of “The EnClothed Collective” —a Parsons: School of Design collective of cross-disciplinary researchers, and served as a co-curator on “Uncovering the Laws of Perseverance” presented by ASMP. Additionally, Vazquez served as a curator and presenter for “Colorizing Latin America”—a cultural data research project that debuted in Trinidad & Tobago for the International Peace Research Association Conference (IPRA) in 2021.

Isabel Kuh is an artist-curator, cultural programmer, and researcher with a specialism in contemporary feminist, queer, and underrepresented visual culture and archives. Utilizing drawing, printmaking, and installation, she centers experimentation at the intersections of art, music, and fashion in both her art and curatorial practices. Kuh holds a B.A. with Honors in Art History, Studio Art, and Critical & Cultural Theory from Williams College, was a visiting student in Visual Cultures & Curation at Goldsmiths, and has a robust background within the cultural sector in art galleries, museums, residencies, and studios across the United States and Europe.

Kaitlyn Yates is a photographic artist, writer, and arts educator based in New York City. Born in California’s San Joaquin Valley, she was raised on both the west and east coasts. She relocated to New York City in 2012, where she earned her Bachelors of Arts at CUNY Hunter College. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Library and Information Science with a specialization in Archives at PennWest University.

Accessibility to the arts through public programming and community engagement is a central theme in Kaitlyn’s professional history. As Programs Manager at Washington Square Park Conservancy, she designed and implemented Washington Square Park’s first Teaching Artist Residency – inviting local artists to develop their practice into a public curriculum for a fair wage. Her dedication to public service is further reflected through her work creating impactful educational programs at libraries and museums. She is deeply grateful to have been invited to collaborate with the Archives team at the Easton Foundation in New York City to continue the preservation and research of Louise Bourgeois’ home and Erasmus Books.

As an artist, Kaitlyn works in analog processes including silver gelatin prints, polaroid emulsions, and cyanotypes. In her work, she seeks to define the meaning or emotive nature of an experience for those living within it, interconnectivity, and the intimacy a space can possess based on who has existed within it. She is largely inspired by the idea of the fugacious nature of existence, as well as her own intimate experience with grief and loss. Her work has been published nationally and internationally by Sonder Literature, Toho Journal, and Seeing Collective. Her most recent series PLACES I’VE BEEN WITH MY FATHER was featured in the April 2024 issue of Brooklyn-based

Ashley Pemberton (They/She) is a 22-year-old oil painter from Macon, Georgia. They graduated from Mercer University in 2023 with a BA in Journalism and a minor in Art. Their work focuses on celebrating Black queer joy. Utilizing materials like oil and sometimes acrylic paint, they make pieces examining their unique experience growing up as a West Indian lesbian in the rural south.