What does it mean to curate as we live through apocalyptic times? Join our 2026 West Michigan Area Show juror, Dr. Xuxa Rodríguez, as she shares about her curatorial practice and explores what making exhibitions and writing about art means as the stakes of our collective global livelihoods grow higher. Dr. Rodríguez will offer reflections and proposals for working and living through difficult times to find meaning and hope even in the darkest of days.

Xuxa Rodríguez, Ph.D., is a curator, scholar, and writer, originally from Miami, FL. Her expertise ranges across modern and contemporary Latinx and Latin American Art, African diasporic art, feminist and queer art, transnational artists, and time-based media, with strengths in performance and video. Now based in Durham, NC, she is the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

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