Curatorial Intensive New Orleans 2018

Esteban King Álvarez (México City, 1986) is researcher, art historian and curator.

Kimia Maleki (M.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago; B.A., University of the Arts, Tehran) is interested in historiography, archiving, and curatorial practice, especially as pertains to Iran.

Ilethia Sharp is a communications specialist, arts writer, and international curator from St. Louis, Missouri with curatorial projects that exhibit sculpture, installation, architecture, new media, and technology-art.

PJ Gubatina Policarpio is an educator, curator, programmer, writer, and community organizer.

Jennie Lamensdorf is a Partnerships & Communications Lead at Open Arts, Meta.

Jennifer Carty is the Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

Megan Koza Mitchell is Director of Operations for Prospect New Orleans and an independent scholar and critic.

Lucy Mensah is Visiting Assistant Professor of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago’s School of Art & Art History.

Mia Lopez is a curator, writer, and educator with over twelve years of experience in museums and non-profit art spaces.

Dr. fari nzinga is a writer, curator and educator, based in Louisville, KY.

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.

Dr. Andrea Phillips is BALTIC Professor and Director of BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

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

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist who works mainly with video, photography, text and installation.Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist and cultural organizer whose work resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies.

Dean Daderko (they/them) is the Ferring Foundation Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Katie Pfohl is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.