Speaking

Teaching as Transformation: Women, Art, and the Power of Education. Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, March 1, 2026
Reclamation, Revision, Resistance: Histories of Feminism and Art in Mexico City. AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions (virtual), March 21, 2022.

“Performing a Playful Politics of Reproductive Freedom in Mexico.” NECLAS (Wellesley, MA), Nov. 2026.

“Performing La mala madre: Dolls as Objects of Feminist Instrucion in Mexican Art.” SECAC (Winston-Salem, NC), Oct. 2026.

“La maternidad, el arte y las políticas de in/visibilidad.” Cuerpas Desobedientas, Feminismos y perspectivas de Género (Cali, Colombia), June 2024.

Chair, “Across and Beyond the Waves: Intergenerational Histories of Feminist Creative Resistance in Latin America.” Latin American Studies Association (Bogotá, Colombia), June 2024.

“Polvo de Gallina Negra and the Politics of Pregnant Performance.” Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, April 3, 2024.

“Performing the Politics of Voluntary Motherhood in Mexico City.” College Art Association, The Feminist Art Project (Chicago, IL), Feb. 2024.

“Generative Pedagogies: Art, Activist and Curatorial Practices.” Society for Contemporary Art Historians (virtual) Dec., 2023.

“On Clotheslines, Classrooms, and Controversies: Mónica Mayer’s El Tendedero as Transgressive Feminist Pedagogy.” College Art Association (New York, NY), Feb. 2023. 

Discussant, Ecocritical Art Histories of Indigenous Latin America. College Art Association (New York, NY), Feb. 2023.

Chair, “Artist/Mothers: Maternal Labor and Creative Practices.” SECAC (Baltimore, MD), Oct. 2022.

“Performance, Trauma, and Maternal Loss in the Work of Guadalupe García Vásquez.” Latin American Studies Association (virtual), May 2022.

Invited roundtable speaker, State of the Field: Feminism in Latin American and Latinx Art History Today. Association for the Study of Arts of the Present. Virtual roundtable, Oct. 2021.

Chair, Creative Cartographies and Inherited Aesthetics: Craft, Tradition, and Labor in Contemporary Fine Art Practices. College Art Association (virtual), Feb. 2021.

“The Artist as Mother, the Mother as Teacher: Mónica Mayer’s ‘Performative Pedagogy.” College Art Association (Chicago, IL), Feb. 2020.

“Cropped Out of the Frame: Reading for Artist-Women’s Radical Connectivity within Latin American Art’s Histories.” SECAC (Chattanooga, TN), Oct. 2019.

“Instructional Objects: Mónica Mayer’s Maruca (la mala madre) and Maternal Performativity in Mexico.” Latin American Studies Association (Boston, MA), May 2019.

“Threading Global Feminist Encounters into the Art History Classroom.” Association for Art History (Brighton, UK), April 2019.

“The Myth of Invisibility: Women, Art, and Twentieth-Century Mexico.” SECAC (Birmingham, AL), Oct. 2018.

“Confronting an ‘Invisibility of Meaning’: Maternal Interventions in Mexico Art.” A Feminist Space at Leeds: Looking Back to Think Forward (Leeds, UK), Dec. 2017.

“Intimate Politics: Identity, Performativity, and Maternal Aesthetics in Mexico.” Latin American Studies Association (Lima, Peru), May 2017.

“Strategic Motherhood: Socially Engaged Practice and Subversive Maternal Aesthetics in Mexico.” College Art Association, Women’s Art Caucus (New York, NY), Feb. 2017.

“The Subversive Tactics of Feminine Narcissism: Martine Gutierrez and Hannah Wilke.” Exhibiting Gender, Boston University Art Galleries, November 2016.

“Tradición performativo: Género, identidad, y ‘conocimiento’ en las obras de Mónica Mayer.” Repertori@s, género y archiv@s: Instancias potentes de prácticas disidentes, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), May 2016.

“Bodies of Work, Bodies of Women: Seeing and Being Seen in Modern Mexico.” Latin American Studies Association (New York, NY), May 2016.

“Tradition for a New Revolution: Street Interventions in Mexico City During the 1970s.” Association for Latin American Art Triennial Conference (San Francisco, CA), March 2016.

“Mónica Mayer y el arte feminista en México: una introducción breve.” Museo de la Mujer (Mexico City), March 2015.

“‘No Men in Uniform, No Children, No Dogs, No Women:’ Negotiating In/Visibility of Women Artists from 1970s Mexico.” Society for Latin American Studies (Manchester, UK), April 2013.