2020-2021

Edmonds is a Los Angeles-based painter, teaching artist, and public artist.

Wimbley combines her interest in science fiction, race theory, popular culture, and personal narrative to create stunning collaged artworks.

Rodriguez is known for his virtuosic work as a ceramic artist whose figurative pieces communicate a reverence for a shared humanity.

Bankston's graphic paintings and drawings of child-like characters explore adult themes of self-representation and belonging.

Chan is a Chinese-American, Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and educator who is the first artist-in-residence with the ACLU of Southern California.

Dr. Barber is a scholar, curator, and critic of 20th- and 21st-century visual art, new media, and performance who focuses on artists of the Black diaspora.

Janos, who identifies as an Afro-Hungarian Trans Womxn, explores a range of experimental new media in her work.

Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator, cultural organizer, and founder of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous based arts & culture collaborative.

Preciado is a Los Angeles-based independent curator and works as a program assistant at the Getty Foundation.

Romero challenges stereotypes of Native Americans and strives to “indigenize photography.”

Arceneaux-Sutton's research focuses on the discovery of Black people who have been omitted from the graphic design history canon. Hicks Corder's mission is to help creatives of color (particularly Black women) realize their voice has value in their work. Ewing is an innovator whose work reaches across all mediums with a specialty in story and digital.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer. Selwa Sweidan (LMU faculty) is a media artist and researcher of emerging technologies.

Miller is a designer, author, and theologian who is best known for her diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy for Black graphic designers in the industry and marketplace.

Two leading curators, Dr. Rebecca Hall and Dr. Aleesa Alexander, discuss their respective approaches to decolonizing and diversifying campus-based museum art collections.