Curatorial Intensive New Orleans 2015

Saisha Grayson is the curator of time-based media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Charles Campbell is a Jamaican born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator.

Brandon Alvendia, an artist, curator, and educator, actively promotes artist-run initiatives across North America, fostering community-driven exhibitions, events, and publications.

Paulina Ascencio Fuentes is a researcher and curator, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at New York University (NYU).

Katherine Cohn is a curator and producer finishing an M.A. degree in Columbia University’s Modern Critical and Curatorial Studies program.

Marcela Correa has recently received two MA degrees in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London and in The History and Business of Art and Collecting from the Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts/Warwick University in Paris and London, and has worked in several European galleries.

Ryan N. Dennis is the Senior Curator and Director of Public Initiatives at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH). 

Lauren Schell Dickens is senior curator at the San José Museum of Art.

Katherine Gressel is a NYC-based independent curator, artist and writer focused on public/site-specific art.

Melissa Messina curated solo exhibitions for such artists as Nick Cave, Whitfield Lovell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Shinique Smith, and the photography exhibition Room In My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces, among others as the former Senior Curator at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Felicia Mings is a curator at The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University.

Yesomi Umolu is Director of Curatorial Affairs and Public Practice for the Serpentine Galleries.

Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive & Artistic Director.

María del Carmen Carrión is Project Manager for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Franklin Sirmans is the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Valerie Cassel Oliver is Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA).

Trained as a curator and art historian, Claire Tancons practices curating as an expanded creative field and experiments with the political aesthetics of walking, marching, second lining, masquerading and parading in participatory processional performances.

Elvira Dyangani Ose is the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). 

Tumelo Mosaka is an independent curator, and currently the Mellon Project Director and Curator in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, New York.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist who works primarily through the expanded moving image.

Andrea Andersson is Chief Curator of the Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.