Amanda Figueroa Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Curationist is a free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Brown Art Ink is a WOC-led experimental thinking studio.

Hired to aid the museum in implementing the welcoming, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in the 2019 strategic plan. With this goal, I performed the following tasks:- Create a rubric based on the 2019 HMSC Strategic Plan for evaluating current strategies for audience development welcoming and inclusivity initiatives- Audit internal departments according.

With the Autumn (…Nothing Personal) installation, I helped to bring audiences and stakeholders to the project through social media engagement and public programming initiatives that activate the space. Program highlights included:- Inaugural Latinx Student Convocation - Pre-Texts Workshop with Cultural Agents- Portraits by Khabeer Sultan, Response to.

Plan and implement public events for Harvard affiliates and Boston citizens in support of art installation Autumn (...Nothing Personal) by Teresita Fernandez, including:- Producing Public Events with the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, February 2018- Public Programs Skill-Building Workshop with the Harvard Committee on the Arts, March 2018.

Research assistant to Teresita Fernandez during the early stages of Autumn (...Nothing Personal). My responsibilities included:- Assisted Fernandez in teaching a January-term workshop titled Arts, Imagination, Democracy: Public Arts in Practice- Performed archival research on topics that interest the artist as she prepared for an installation in the.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Researching the history of Chicano activism at the George Washington University, from 1960 to the present. My final project will place these points of activism and awareness on an interactive timeline, creating a digital exhibit that shows the progress of the Chicano movement to Washington DC.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, American Studies

ABD

Master'S Degree, American Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, American Studies, English, 3.8

Worked with a faculty committee to convert my independent major program in American Studies into the American Arts and Letters track of.