Bio: Born in Wisconsin 1971, Wendy Wischer currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, Utah, after relocating from Miami, Florida where she lived and worked for over 15 years. She received an MFA from Florida State University,1995 and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison,1993. With a focus on artwork in a variety of media from sculptural objects, to installations, to video, sound and public works. She is the recipient of numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Grant, the South Florida Consortium, the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Visual Arts Fellowship and recently several prominent research grants from the University of Utah where she is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture Intermedia. Wendy has exhibited extensively nationally, and her international exhibits include Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canada, Italy and Israel. She is an alumni of the Creative Capitol Professional development program and her work is part of several public collections including the Perez Art Museum, Art Bank Art in Public Places Miami, Art in Public Places Miami Beach, the Boca Museum of Art in Baca Raton Florida, the Colorado State Art Collection and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Collection.

Bio: Dr. Lourdes Alberto is an indigenous Latina (Zapotec) scholar from Los Angeles, CA. An associate professor at the University of Utah, she holds a dual appointment in the Department of English and Division of Ethnic Studies. Dr. Alberto’s research employs a comparative Indigenous studies and Latina/o/x Studies approach to understand how race/ethnicity and colonialism work together to shape the cultural expressions, political and social realities of indigenous peoples and Latinos/as in the Americas. Most recently, she has published her work in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal and Latinos Studies Journal. Dr. Alberto’s book Mexican American Indigeneities is forthcoming with NYU Press.