Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Glenda Drew is a critical maker whose research is based at the intersections of visual culture and social change, with a particular emphasis on the working class. The content of her work is rooted in creating messaging with greater social implications, fostering innovation and encouraging behavior change. Her subjects include country musicians, waitresses, feminists and precarious workers. In addition, she has recently created a few projects that consider climate change through user...

Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and...

Apsara DiQuinzio is senior curator of contemporary art at the Nevada Museum of Art, where she oversees the contemporary program. Over the course of DiQuinzio’s twenty-year career as a curator, she has organized over fifty exhibitions of art, including solo exhibitions with leading contemporary artists such as Michael Armitage, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Arthur Jafa, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Otobong Nkanga, Christina Quarles, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, among many...

Jen de los Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her...