Mary Jo Aagerstoun: Mary Jo Aagerstoun is an independent scholar interested in the work of selected US artists of the 1980s and 1990s who sought to address controversial political issues, and the reactions to that work from inside and outside the art world. During the height of the recent Peace Movement, Dr. Aagerstoun was part of a collective that created the "Women in Black Art Project" involving elaborate costuming and stark performances in 7 locations in the US and around the world. That project's artifacts and archives are in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History. She is currently developing a project involving an exhibition, symposium and book which would consider the complexities of an activist art practice addressing the interrelationship of Ocean/Wetland/Farming in Florida and other coastal areas in the US and in similar geographic regions on each continent. Dr. Aagerstoun is co-editor with Dr. Elissa Auther of a special issue of the National Women's Studies Association Journal on feminist activist art, to appear in 2007. She lives with her partner in West Palm Beach, FL. Alex Alberro: University of Florida. Recent or upcoming works: Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT Press, 2003). Research interests: modern and contemporary art, history of art history. Contact information: phone: 352-392-0201 x220; email: alberro@ufl.edu. Mike Alewitz: Agitprop muralist/ socialist activist/ educator. Current Status: Associate Professor, Central Connecticut State University/ Directs CCSU community-based mural painting program/ Artistic Director, Labor Art & Mural Project/ Organizer, 1st New Britain International Mural Slam/ Organizer, Global Agitprop Murals: Extensive work throughout US and internationally, including Baghdad, Chernobyl, Mexico City, Nicaragua, Belfast, the Occupied Territories, etc. Projects Organized: Cultural initiatives with numerous unions and progressive organizations including the United Mine Workers, Jobs with Justice, Teamsters, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, United Farm Workers, etc. Union Membership: United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local 829 / CCSU AAUP Misc: Co-author with Paul Buhle, Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz/ subject of several documentary films/ One of the most censored artists in the world. More Info: alewitz@comcast,net http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1157866386&ref=profile http://picasaweb.google.com/Alewitz
Alejandro Anreus Born in Havana, Cuba, Professor Anreus received his B.A. in art history from Kean College in 1984. He completed his M.A. (1995) and PhD (1997) in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the William Paterson faculty Prof. Anreus was a curator at the Montclair Art Museum (1986-93) and the Jersey City Museum (1993-2001), as well as a critic in residence at the Latino Center for Art and Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000). Prof. Anreus has taught art history at New Jersey City University, Seton Hall University and Kean University. His most recent publications are Ben Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (Jersey City Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2001), Orozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York (University of New Mexico Press, 2001), and The Social and The Real; Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (Penn State Press, 2006), which he co-edited with Diana L. Linden and Jonathan Weinberg. His articles have appeared in Art Journal, Third Text, Art Nexus and Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. Prof. Anreus is currently doing research on two projects; one on exile imagery in the work of Cuban American artists, the other a multi-author critical history of Mexican Mural painting that he is co-editing with Robin Adèle Greeley (University of Connecticut) and Leonard Folgarait (Vanderbilt University).
Hollis Clayson: Northwestern University. Current research: Franco-American cultural exchange in the shadow of transatlantic technological competition, 1870-1914. Recent work: 2005 paperback edition of Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege, 1870-71 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002). Leo Costello: Rice University. Areas of research, activist interest : J.M.W. Turner, Reform-era British Politics, Marxist theory. Recent activities: "Turner's Slave-Ship: Towards a Dialectical History Painting," in Discourses of Slavery and Abolition (2004), "Confronting the Sublime" in JMW Turner, (2007) Tate. Book project: J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History. Contactinformation--lcostell@rice.edu, (713) 348-3472. Lincoln Cushing: independent/UC Berkeley. Areas of interest: political graphic arts and public art, labor culture, and the role of underground media during the “long 60s.” Recent works: editor, Visions of Peace & Justice: 30 years of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press, 2007; co-author, Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Chronicle Books, 2007); co-author, Art/Works—American Labor Graphics (Cornell University Press, expected 2009). Contact info: Docs Populi (Documents for the Public) http://www.docspopuli.org, cushing@igc.org
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