LaRissa Rogers’ practice combines aspects of personal memory and history to forefront the capaciousness of blackness shaped by the experience of diasporas. Research and material become the entry point of broader social political interrogations, often asking the question, who and what survives?
Robin Garcia is a Chicana born and raised in Los Angeles from a working-class family of organizers and artists. She completed her doctorate in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University with a focus on Africana Studies, Media Studies, Latin American Studies and Globalization and Culture.
Maria Villanueva is a multimedia artist and educator whose work focuses on the relationship between the human and natural ecologies within the urban environment. Her artworks range in media from digital technology, drawing and painting, to site-specific sculpture installations. Maria earned a bachelor's degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design, and MFA from the University of North Texas.
Rolando Vargas is a media artist and scholar working with installation and digital media. He has a BFA in Fine arts from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, received a Fulbright grant for his MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts at the University of Maryland, and has a Ph.D. in Film and Digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Tatiana Flores is a scholar of the visual culture of the hemispheric Americas, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx art. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30! (Yale University Press, 2013). Committed to public-facing work, she has been active as an independent curator for over two decades.
PhD Stanford University, 2015
Mona Kasra is an Iranian American new media artist, interdisciplinary scholar, and Associate Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia. Her practice-based research questions, critiques, and experiments with the affordances of media technologies within artistic forms and in a variety of improvisational framings.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2016
MFA UT-Austin 2014
Aunspaugh Fellow UVA 2008
BA University of Virginia 2008
Currently the Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the University of Virginia, Jackson Taylor was born and raised in rural Kentucky on a large intergenerational cattle and tobacco farm. He holds a BFA in 2D Studio Art from the University of Louisville and received his MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from the University of Iowa in 2021. He is a master of lithography and monotype processes, which he uses to generate multifaceted prints and drawings about growing up in the American South.
