Curatorial Intensive New Orleans 2016

Rachel Adams is the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Katherine Finerty is an independent curator, writer, and art historian focusing in socially engaged practices and contemporary translocal and African art.

As a recent Detroit Mayoral candidate and founder and director of AFROTOPIA, LaFleur implements Afrofuturist strategies to empower Black bodies and oppressed communities through frameworks such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, and universal basic income.

Lynnette is a Program Officer at Builders Initiative, managing a philanthropic portfolio of artist-run organizations, creative entrepreneurship accelerators, and pay equity initiatives for cultural workers in the Chicagoland region.

Charlie Tatum is a writer and arts worker based in New Orleans, LA.

Larry Ossei-Mensah is a Ghanaian-American independent curator and cultural critic who has documented contemporary art happenings for various publications including Uptown and Whitewall Magazine.

Anthony Stepter works at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he is both the graduate program coordinator for Museum and Exhibition Studies and the coordinator of public programs and community engagement at Gallery 400.

Lucy Ainsworth is an emerging Australian curator.

Allison Glenn is Senior Curator at the Public Art Fund and Co-Curator of the Counterpublic Triennial 2023, St. Louis.

Arnaldo Rodríguez-Bague (They/Them) is a researching artist-curator from San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Ross Jordan is Curatorial Manager at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, IL.

Lydia Y. Nichols is a writer, curator, and ethnographer native to New Orleans.

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

María del Carmen Carrión is an independent curator and art critic from Quito, who received an MA from the Curatorial Practice Program at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco, and taught at Universidad Católica in Quito.

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

Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, an art museum founded in 1968 whose mission is to serve as the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally.

Jay Pather is a choreographer, curator and academic. Based in Cape Town, he is a Professor and directs the Institute for Creative Arts at UCT, curates Infecting the City Public Art Festival and the ICA Live Art Festival.

Cameron Shaw is a writer, editor, and Executive Director of Pelican Bomb, a nonprofit contemporary arts organization in New Orleans.

Gia M. Hamilton, cultural practitioner and entrepreneur, has worked at the heart of art, healing, food security and education to help build sustainable communities for the past 20 years.

Trevor Schoonmaker is Artistic Director of Prospect.4 New Orleans and Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, NC.