Thea Quiray Tagle, PhD
A Filipinx femme curator, writer, and transdisciplinary scholar whose research broadly investigates photography, socially engaged art and site-specific performance; visual cultures of violence and waste; and relationality across the Pacific. Across her various research and creative projects, a question that drives Thea’s work is: how can socially engaged art and performance move us, collectively and individually, to work towards more just and livable futures that are anti-capitalist, feminist, and queer? How can art and performance model practices of right relation with other humans and non-human life, that might impact how we choose to live in the day-to-day? Her writing has been published in outlets including American Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Hyperallergic, and BOMB Magazine. Her most recent curatorial project is as co-curator of New York Now: Home, the inaugural contemporary photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York, which runs from March 10-August 27, 2023. Dr. Quiray Tagle is the Associate Curator of the Bell Gallery and Brown Arts Institute (BAI) at Brown University. theaquiraytagle.com
Sarah Montross
Sarah Montross is Chief Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum/The Trustees, where she has organized numerous exhibitions and outdoor commissions. Recent projects include Jeffrey Gibson: INFINITE INDIGENOUS QUEER LOVE, Visionary New England, and outdoor installations with Wardell Milan, Letha Wilson, Leeza Meksin, among others. Research projects have focused on the intersections of art and the scientific imagination including topics of science fiction and space travel; spiritualism and animism of New England, and television and psychedelia.
Ngoc-Tran Vu
Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a 1.5-generation Vietnamese-American multimedia artist and organizer whose socially engaged practice draws from her experience and expertise as a cultural strategist, educator, and lightworker. Tran threads her social practice through photography, painting, sculpture and audio so that her art can resonate and engage audiences with intentionality. Her work evokes discourse of familial ties, memories, and rituals amongst themes of social justice and intersectionality. Tran works across borders and is grounded in Boston's Dorchester community. www.tranvuarts.com | @TranVuArts
Laurie Rojas
Laurie Rojas is an independent art critic, journalist and lecturer who recently relocated to Miami from Berlin. Her writing is featured in major international publications such as Artbasel.com, The Art Newspaper, Artnet.com, Art.sy, BMW Art Guide, Sotheby’s Magazine, Financial Times, and many more. She is the former senior editor of Spike art magazine and the former Berlin correspondent for The Art Newspaper. In 2016, she founded the new criticism publication, Caesura, a non-academic publication dedicated to art, music, poetry, and criticism. Her essay, “Gothic: the Return of the Repressed” will appear in a forthcoming book by Manchester University Press, Cases of Citations: On Literature in Art. She is currently consulting on programs and grants for Locust Projects.