{"id":68,"date":"2026-03-13T04:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:03:25","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Warren Wilson College<\/strong>, Asheville, North Carolina&nbsp;<br><strong>MA in Critical Craft Studies<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>Specialization in craft knowledges used by contemporary artists in Puerto Rico<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Thesis:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Interwoven Mesh of Re-existence: Craft Knowledges in Puerto Rico<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mentors: Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Pablo Helguera, PJ\u00a0Gubatina\u00a0Policarpio\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alchimia&nbsp;Scuola&nbsp;di&nbsp;Gioielleria&nbsp;Contemporanea<\/strong>, Florence, Italy&nbsp;<br><strong>Specialization in Contemporary Jewelry<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mentored by Peter\u00a0Bauhuis, Manfred Bischoff, and\u00a0Ruudt\u00a0Peters\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Universidad de Puerto Rico<\/strong>, San Juan, Puerto Rico&nbsp;<br>Graduate Studies in 20th-Century History&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Focus on Puerto Rican visual culture (1950s)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parsons School of Design<\/strong>, New York, New York&nbsp;<br><strong>A.A.S. in Fashion Design<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Universidad de Puerto Rico<\/strong>, San Juan, Puerto Rico&nbsp;<br><strong>B.A. in History<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Concentration in 20th-Century Latin American History\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications \u2013 Written Works<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forthcoming<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Where the Jacho Stills Flicker: Crafting Cultural Resistance\u201d, \u00a0in\u00a0<em>Craft Education: Teaching, Learning, Knowing, and Making Craft in the United States and<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Territories,&nbsp;<\/em>ed&nbsp;Daisy&nbsp;Alejandre, Sara&nbsp;Clugage, O.M. Comstock,&nbsp;Michelle Millar Fisher, PhD, Mary&nbsp;Savig, Yutong Shi, Namita Gupta Wiggers, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2027&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMaterial Conversations: Making and Learning in La Escuela de\u00a0Oficios,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Craft Schools: Where We Make What We Inherit<\/em>, ed. Michelle Millar Fisher, Museum of Fine Arts Boston &amp; Schiffer Publishing, 2026\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMarkings into a Different World,\u201d\u00a0<em>Current Obsession<\/em>\u00a0Magazine, 2025\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cCraft, Crises, and Colonialism: Reimagining Puerto Rico,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Modern Craft<\/em>\u00a0(peer-reviewed)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cOne Work: Luciano Pimienta,\u201d\u00a0<em>HereIn\u00a0Journal<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cCrafts, Lists, and Fairs: Constructing Puerto Rican Identity in the 1950s,\u201d\u00a0<em>Hyperallergic<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cAccents,\u00a0E\u00f1es, and the Language of Jewelry:\u00a0Colectiva\u00a0Tilde,\u201d\u00a0<em>Craft Desert Zine<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIt Just Got Started,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Crucible: Publication&#8217;21<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Presentations &amp; Lectures<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cReflections: Creative Aging in Museum Education at MCASD,\u201d\u00a0<em>Museums and Trust<\/em>, American Alliance of Museums Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Places that Inhabit Me: 20 Years of Jewelry Making,\u201d Artist Lecture,\u00a0<em>La Frontera<\/em>\u00a0Programming, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cRizoma: Broadening Our Community Through Connections,\u201d\u00a0<em>SNAG Conference<\/em>, San Diego State University, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cCrafts, Lists, and Fairs: Constructing Puerto Rican Identity in the 1950s,\u201d\u00a0<em>Craft Archive Fellowship Presentation<\/em>, Center for Craft &amp; Hyperallergic, online\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cInterwoven Mesh of Re-existence: Craft Knowledges in Puerto Rico,\u201d\u00a0<em>Moriviv\u00ed: Activating Puerto Rican Futures<\/em>, Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, Mount Holyoke College, MA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cCraft Schools: People,\u201d Esther Steinberg Memorial Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, online\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group Exhibitions (Selected)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>A Really Good Sculpture Show,\u00a0<\/em>Harvest and Gather, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Missed Connections<\/em>, Art Produce, San Diego, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>La Frontera<\/em>, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA &amp; Centro Cultural de Tijuana\u2013CECUT, Tijuana, M\u00e9xico\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>La Frontera<\/em>, El Rubin Center, El Paso, TX &amp; Centro Cultural de la Frontera, Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, M\u00e9xico\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Rizoma<\/em>, Flex Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Stone Soup<\/em>, Two Rooms, La Jolla, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Ra\u00edces<\/em>, Galer\u00eda de la Tierra, Universidad\u00a0Aut\u00f3noma\u00a0de Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, M\u00e9xico\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Ra\u00edces<\/em>, Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>D\u00eda de\u00a0los\u00a0Muertos Invitational<\/em>, Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Amend<\/em>, [online]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amendexhibition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.amendexhibition.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Passenger<\/em>, Munich, Germany\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Insurgencies: Women\u2019s Art on the Border in the Cold War Era<\/em>, The Front Arte &amp; Cultura, San Diego, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Hot Dog Show<\/em>, Chicago, IL\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Vecinos\u00a0II:\u00a0Bienal\u00a0Latinoamericana de\u00a0Joyer\u00eda\u00a0Contempor\u00e1nea<\/em>, Museo Municipal de Arte\u00a0Decorativo\u00a0Firma\u00a0y Odilo Estevez, Rosario, Argentina\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Back Again, Forever<\/em>, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Vecinos\u00a0II<\/em>, Museo de Artes Populares Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, Buenos Aires, Argentina\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2017\u20132010<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>Additional exhibitions in San Diego, Boston, Florence, Munich, Rome, Barcelona, Vienna, Leipzig, Mexico City, and more.<\/em>&nbsp;<br>(Full list available upon request)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awards &amp; Fellowships<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Craft Archive Fellowship<\/em>, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Artist Grant<\/em>, William Male Foundation, San Diego, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Premio Fondazione\u00a0Cominelli\u00a0per il Gioiello\u00a0Contemporaneo<\/em>, Brescia, Italy\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education&nbsp; Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina&nbsp;MA in Critical Craft Studies&nbsp;Specialization in craft knowledges used by contemporary artists in Puerto Rico&nbsp; Alchimia&nbsp;Scuola&nbsp;di&nbsp;Gioielleria&nbsp;Contemporanea, Florence, Italy&nbsp;Specialization in Contemporary Jewelry&nbsp; Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico&nbsp;Graduate Studies in 20th-Century History&nbsp; Parsons School of Design, New York, New York&nbsp;A.A.S. in Fashion Design&nbsp; Universidad de Puerto Rico, San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marugenia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}