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Rhea Boyden is the Irish-born daughter of American parents. After years of studying and working all over the United States and Berlin, Germany, she now lives in Dublin where she reviews, art, music and literature. She was a contributer to Slow Travel Berlin, an arts and culture magazine in Berlin and helped author a Berlin guidebook with the magazine. She has been published in the Irish Times as well as various anthologies. She reviews music in Dublin for PHEVER: TV-Radio and spends a lot of time in art museums pondering life.

Rhea Boyden

PR specialist. Alexandra Israel graduated from [Bates College](/org/bates-college) in 2010. A museum aficionado since her introduction to Jean Dominque Ingres' portraits as a small child, she enjoys spending her free time at museums and finding off-the-beaten-track gallery shows. Israel has been working in PR for over seven years, primarily within book publishing and in the art world. She has held positions at Penguin Book Group, Aperture Foundation, and Third Eye among others.

Alexandra Israel

Lifelong auction house junkie. A student at the Bard Graduate Center, Muir focuses on both nineteenth-century American material culture and contemporary American design in her studies. Working at Wright Auction as a research assistant, she had the chance to write and research for both the Irving Harper and Four Seasons sales. She has written and published on topics spanning everything from the early American use of Chinese export porcelain to the quasi-religious imagery in the contemporary films of Matthew Barney. Her secret love continues to be single-owner auction sales, her favorite being the fabulous Bunny Mellon sale.

Elizabeth Muir

Art professional with Chicago-based art non-profit Project&. Moreira-Brown studied Art History at [The Ohio State University](/org/the-ohio-state-university) receiving a B.A in History of Art with an emphasis on Post-Modern and African-American art history. Previously, she has held positions in gallery administration at Fredrich Petzel Gallery, 67 Gallery, Joseph editions and has worked at Kim Heirston Art Advisory and The Wexner Center for The Arts. She is interested in the postmodern race relations and narrative change. 

Caira Moreira - Brown

New York-based curator and writer. Vizcarrondo-Laboy works as the Curatorial Assistant and Project Manager at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York. She holds a B.A. in Art History from the [University of Florida](/org/university-of-florida), and an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center. 

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

Ethiopian-American interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis in performance and installation art that implicate the audience. Other titles she bears that also inform her art practice are mother, educator, and birthworker. Recurring themes present in Makonnen's work are identity, migration, colorism, womanhood, ritual, and kinship. In the last few years her work has centered around creative responses to the forced migratory patterns inflicted on the African Diaspora.

Tsedaye Makonnen

Independent curator and writer. Originally from Shanghai, Lux Yuting Bai received her bachelor’s degree in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She worked at several art institutions in Asia, including Ben Brown Fine Arts and Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation. Now she is pursuing her masters as a Curatorial Fellow at School of Visual Arts in New York. She studies contemporary art theory, writes reviews, and makes exhibitions.

Lux Yuting Bai

Curator and writer based in Berlin. Having worked for 6 years at The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, she moved to Sweden in 2011 to undertake an MA in curating contemporary art at [Stockholm University](/org/stockholm-university). In 2015, she formed part of CuratorLab at Konstfack Stockholm where she investigated the folklore and local history of her hometown in Kildare, Ireland. She is also initiator and curator of Couchsurfers Paradise, a series of exhibitions unfolding in the homes of strangers. Additional recent projects have included Ritual Play, Verkstad Konsthall, Norrköping, and Faraway Longings, Irish Embassy Berlin. During the 2017 exhibition season, she will act as director of Dada Post, a project space in Berlin.

Sheena Malone

Alexandra Bregman has written for [The Wall Street Journal](/org/the-wall-street-journal), Architectural Digest, The Art Newspaper, and the Asian Art Newspaper among others. She began her career with internships at Christie's and Gagosian gallery 10 years ago, later traveling to India and France for work and ghostwriting for a global CEO. Bregman spent time at Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, and completed degrees at [Smith College](/org/smith-college) and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Alexandra Bregman

Editor-in-Chief and Principal PR/Digital & Curatorial Services, [Cultbytes](/org/cultbytes) Building on her experience as an art critic and digital strategist, Anna Mikaela founded [Cultbytes](/org/cultbytes) to promote interdisciplinary and non-hierarchical cultural criticism. By attracting the leading emerging museum professionals, artists, and art-critics to cover topics close to their heart her aim is to inspire cultural consumption in the public. As the Principal of PR/Digital & Curatorial Services, Anna Mikaela leverages her knowledge, network, and team to find new ways to innovate communications and curatorial practices to benefit her clients. She has held curatorial positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bard Graduate Center, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She holds dual MA degrees, in Design History, Material Culture, and Decorative Arts from Bard Graduate Center and in Art History from [Stockholm University](/org/stockholm-university). She undertook her undergraduate studies at [Stockholm University](/org/stockholm-university), Paris-Sorbonne IV, and [London School of Economics and Political Science](/org/london-school-of-economics-and-political-science). l igram l twitter l contact l



Anna Mikaela Ekstrand

Curator and educator based in New York via Bogotá. She co-founded Espacio Odeon, a contemporary arts center housed in an abandoned landmark movie theater located in the city center of Bogotá. She has worked in public programs and curatorial teams at MoMA, MoMA PS1, and No Longer Empty in New York. Steiner undertook her M.A. studies in Visual Art Administration at [New York University](/org/nyu).

Kristina Lindemann

Annabel Keenan is New York-based writer specializing in contemporary art and sustainability. Her work has been published in The Art Newspaper, Brooklyn Rail, [Hyperallergic](/org/hyperallergic), and Artillery Magazine among others. She has held positions at the Broad Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum, the American Academy in Rome, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Italian from [Emory University](/org/emory-university) and an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center.

Annabel Keenan

Art consultant with New York-based consulting firm Samuels Creative and social media specialist. Blumberg studied Art History in undergrad at the [University of Virginia](/org/university-of-virginia) and holds an MA from FIT’s “Art Market: Principles” graduate program. Blumberg is also the founder of @Artstagram__, an art Instagram that covers modern and contemporary art exhibitions and events in NYC and beyond. She enjoys seeing art constantly in both a personal and professional capacity, and can be counted on to overshare life updates in the form of pictures captioned with dad jokes on her various social platforms.

Nina Blumberg

Juliana Steiner

Museum professional, arts advocate, and freelance fundraiser. She has held a position in collections management at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Wos is pursuing an M.A. at Bard Graduate Center and has aa M.A. in Art History from University of St. Andrews. Her research is focused on textiles.

Carson Wos

Mengna Da is a freelance writer, amateur artist, and sleepwalker 24/7 based in Brooklyn. Her interests involve surveillance, moving image, female body online, and politics behind what is (constructed to be) seen. With a day job as project manager/archivist at Xu Bing Studio, she also leads docent tours at New Museum. She received art historical training from [Vassar College](/org/vassar-college) and the University of Chicago

Mengna Da

Freelance writer, avid instagrammer, and artist-when-there-is-time based in New York. She is currently pursuing a MA in art history and curatorial studies at [Columbia University](/org/columbia-university). She is interested in the intersection between the performing human body, digital landscapes, and opticality.

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