Visual Arts

Caroline Woolard is the W.W. Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement and a founding co-organizer of Art.coop. She is the co-author of two major reports: Solidarity Not Charity (Grantmakers in the Arts, 2021) and Spirits and Logistics (Center for Cultural Innovation, 2022) and three books:...

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective.

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Christian L. Frock is a writer, curator, educator, and scholar with more than twenty years professional experience in the cultural sector. Her work and research focus on the intersection of the arts and humanities, politics, and public life. Her projects center the arts and humanities in social progress and systemic change. Frock’s work bridges museums, private enterprise, civic institutions, nonprofits, grassroots organizations, public space, placemaking/keeping, education, philanthropy, and legacy.

Her books include Rex Ray (2020), Eureka at Thirty Years (2017), Public Works:...

Julia Bryan-Wilson's research interests include feminist and queer theory, theories of artistic labor, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of four books: Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009, named a best book of the year by the New York Times and Artforum); Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (with Glenn Adamson,...