Carmen Winant and Dr. Guisela Latorre

Carmen Winant is the Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair of Studio Art at The Ohio State University and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography. Winant collects and alloys found photographs as a method of examining feminist modes of survival, revolt, and innermost feeling. Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),  Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Sculpture Center, among others. In 2019, Winant published the book Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her partner Luke Stettner and her two and four-year-old sons Rafa and Carlo.

Dr. Guisela Latorre, professor in Ohio State's Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, specializes in modern and contemporary US Latinx and Latin American art with a special emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. She is the author of Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (2008). In addition, she served as cocurator and coauthor of  ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/Chicano Murals Under Siege (2017). Her other publications include “The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art’s Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation” in The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies (2018) and “Indigenous Images of Democracy on City Streets: Native Representations in Contemporary Chilean Graffiti and Muralism” in Street Art of Resistance (2017). She is currently working on an anthology on the arts collective Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo.