Brittany Ashley (she/they) is pursuing a Master鈥檚 in Art History at CU Boulder. Their research focuses on making art museums more accessible to those who find them alienating, uninviting, inaccessible, or blatantly discriminatory. They are also investigating an approach to art-making and institutional critique that has been called 鈥榤useumist art鈥�. It includes modern and contemporary art that comments upon museum culture or otherwise uses museum collections as medium for artworks...
Pilar Aurelio Mu帽oz is a PhD student and educator from the El Paso/Ju谩rez border. Through his research at CU Boulder, he applies a critical framework of decoloniality on Latin American and borderland literatures to help make visible and advance decolonial knowledges and cultural practices that can help cultivate and sustain imaginaries that are delinked, and thus, always othered from the colonial logics of oppression that have come to dominate Western...
Edem Dotse is an artist and practice-based scholar interested in the intersections between spirituality, cultural memory and mediated representation in contemporary society. Through an ever evolving set of approaches involving video and sound, his work attempts to interrogate and recontextualize African modes of thought and existence within an increasingly globalized media landscape. With a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Computer Science and an MFA in Film & Media Production from the University...
Having a passion for community engagement and working with youth, Nicholas Felder (he/him) is a Black queer artist, composer-vocalist, activist, and educator who creates art that inspires relational bonds between people in a given space. He builds community in artmaking, unlocking truths around self-identity, and creating a space for embodied expression. Nicholas has led arts programs and workshops with numerous organizations, such as El Sistema Colorado, Neutral Zone (Ann Arbor,...
Harveen Gill (she/her) is a Punjabi-American, first generation, interdisciplinary artist using film, movement, installation, spoken word and sound as an expression of exploring memory in the body, identity, and connection to land and south asian ancestry. Harveen holds a B.A. in Dance from San Jose State University, California with a distinction in choreography and performance. She is motivated by amplifying marginalized voices, creating accessible spaces for all movers, navigating connections...
Julia Shizuyo Popham (she/her) is a mixed-race, Asian American woman with roots in the coal mines of Rock Springs and Hanna, Wyoming. She is also a doctoral student in Critical Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU), where she explores art from the Amache WWII Incarceration Camp in southeastern Colorado. Julia is interested in how Amache鈥檚 art sheds light on how Japanese American artists navigated what it means...
