Lili Bernard BIO
Lili Bernard is a Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based visual artist and actor. Primarily a painter, she has exhibited her artwork in numerous galleries and institutions. Her artwork explores her Afro-Indigenous Caribbean ancestry in a quest to examine issues of racism and feminism, past and present. As an actress Lili, has performed extensively in theatre and TV, and has been a member of SAG/AFTRA since 1987. An arts activist, independent curator, and blogger for the Huffington Post, Lili is the founder and organizer of the movement , BAILA (Black Artists in Los Angeles). She is currently a graduate student at Otis College of Art and Design, in the Public Practice Program, under the tutelage of Suzanne Lacy. Lili is married to civil rights attorney, Franklin L. Ferguson, Jr., and gave birth to six children in a ten year span: Rafael, Isaiah, Elias, Uriel, Joshua and Zion.
Rachel Epp Buller BIO
Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist art historian printmaker mama of three whose art and scholarship often speak to these intersections. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, and Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding. She exhibits her prints and artist books widely and she frequently works as an independent curator. She has discovered a passion for fostering community engagement and interdisciplinary connections with the arts, most recently encouraged by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her current artwork, begun during a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin, concerns family, memory, and the role of place. She is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College, a board member of the National Women's Caucus for Art, and a regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project.
Rachel Epp Buller BIO
Rachel Epp Buller is a feminist art historian printmaker mama of three whose art and scholarship often speak to these intersections. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering, Mothering Mennonite, and Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding. She exhibits her prints and artist books widely and she frequently works as an independent curator. She has discovered a passion for fostering community engagement and interdisciplinary connections with the arts, most recently encouraged by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her current artwork, begun during a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin, concerns family, memory, and the role of place. She is Assistant Professor of Visual Arts and Design at Bethel College, a board member of the National Women's Caucus for Art, and a regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project.
Maria Elena Buszek BIO
Maria Elena Buszek, is a scholar, critic, curator, and associate professor of art history at the University of Colorado, Denver, where she teaches courses on Modern and contemporary art. Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press Books, 2006) and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art(Duke University Press Books, 2011). She has also contributed writing to the exhibition catalogue In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, and has published articles in Art Journal and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. Buszek has been a regular contributor to the popular feminist magazine BUST since 1999, and, with Kirsty Robertson, recently edited a special issue of Utopian Studies on the subject of “craftivism.” Her current book project explores the ties between contemporary activist art and popular music.
Micol Hebron BIO
Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA. She is also an independent curator, writer, and community organizer. Hebron has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. She is the founder of the LA Art Girls; the co-founder of the Fontbron Academy; and former co-founder of the artist collective The Elizabeths. Her work frequently explores the artist’s relationship to art-making, art history, modernism and feminism. Currently she is collaborating with 350 artists from around the world on the “Gallery Tally Poster Project” to create graphical visualizations of data regarding gender inequity in the art world. In 2012, Hebron was awarded a mid-career California Community Fellowship. She is represented by Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles. www.micolhebron.com www.jancargallery.com
Niku Kashef BIO
Niku Kashef is an artist and educator living and working in Los Angeles. She works with various media exploring ideas of home, place and biography through the lens of where the real meets the uncanny. Her process stems from collection and collaboration, dealing with subjects of collective memory, dislocation, identity, urban environment and motherhood. Niku has exhibited and taught nationally and internationally, most recently at the London College of Communications in the UK and the Shandong Normal University in China. She is active on local and national committees for the arts including with the College Art Association’s Services for Artists Committee, the Julius Schulman Institute and as a Director for the National Women's Caucus for Art and Director and past-President of the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art. With an MFA in Visual Communication she is a Lecturer of Art at California State University, Northridge and a Participating Adjunct at Woodbury University. She is currently working on studies and installations surrounding the LA freeway system and a series of photographic narratives in her new role as parent. www.nikukashef.com
Jennie Klein BIO
Jennie Klein is an associate professor of art history and critical theory at Ohio University School of Art. She writes on performance, feminist art and art history, and queer art and theory. She is the co-editor, with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2011) and the co-editor, with Deirdre Heddon, of Histories and Practices of Live Art (Palgrave, 2012). Along with Myrel Chernick, she curated TFAP@CAA: The Day of Panels: The M Word, 2014.
Jamie McMurry BIO
Jamie McMurry has been an active organizer, educator and artist in the fields of performance, installation, video and conceptual art for more than 20 years. He has presented more than 100 original live art works in more than 20 different countries. He has curated and produced the work of more than 200 different artists working in time based fields through exhibits and festivals that have taken place in Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, New York, Santiago, Chile and Glasgow, Scotland. He has conducted workshops all over the world and held visiting artist faculty positions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His most recent live performance works took place at the University of Hildesheim in Germany, the Miami International Performance Art Festival, near death performance art experience at Boston Center for the Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland.
