Carmen Hermo
Carmen Hermo is the Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Previously, she was Associate Curator for the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art, where she curated María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold (2023–25), Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive (2021); Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? (2020); Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making (2017); and formed part of the curatorial collective for Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall (2019). She organized the Brooklyn presentations of Liza Lou: Trailer (2024); Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2018) and Andy Warhol: Revelation (2021), and co-curated Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection (2018), among other exhibitions. Carmen has also worked as the Assistant Curator for Collections at the Guggenheim Museum, and with the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Her independent projects include CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response (A.I.R. Gallery, 2020), and New Voices: On Transformation (Print Center New York, 2023). Carmen received her B.A. in art history and English from the University of Richmond and her M.A. in art history from Hunter College.
Kamaria Weemz
Kamaria Weemz is a Black, queer and nonbinary community cultivator, skilled facilitator, somatic practitioner and artist, living and working across Greater Boston communities for over 15 years. Their life’s work wades into the depths of Blackness, reveling in liberatory practices that heal across generations–backwards, contemporarily, and into the future. Through Cultivate (a queer healing lab) and UnBoundBodies (a multimedia experimental community-based art collective) Kamaria works collaboratively to amplify QTBIPOC wellbeing and extend collective ecosystems of imagination. Prior to their current role of Dir. of Cultural Programs + Galleries at Boston Ujima Project, Kamaria was a Program Officer at the New England Foundation for the Arts supporting artists and the field at the intersection of Public Art and spatial justice.
Nando Alvarez-Perez
Nando Alvarez-Perez (b. 1988) investigates the individual's relationship to the vast territory of history. He received a BA in Film studies from CUNY Hunter in 2011 and a MFA from SFAI in 2014, where he was awarded the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography.
Alvarez-Perez has exhibited at NADA New York 2024, Lydian Stater Gallery, NY, NY, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, and Material Art Fair, CDMX, among many others. Alvarez-Perez was a resident of Light Work, Syracuse, NY in 2022.
His practice extends to his work as a founding director of The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, an art and education nonprofit that models how culture can sustain communities through focused, practical engagements with contemporary art, and as editor-in-chief of Cornelia Magazine, a visual art review published three times a year for the Western New York and Southern Ontario region. He is a visiting professor at Alfred University, living and working in Buffalo, NY. In 2024, he was an awardee of the JGS Fellowship for Photography and the recipient of a Support for Artists Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Nelly Kate
Nelly Kate (she/her) is a studio artist with an expanded practice in sound. She treats access as a site for poetic translation through the lens of Queer and late-Deaf experience. Her practice is about reaching across the senses to translate phenomena which our bodies sense but cannot readily name. It often takes the form of installation, print, video, sound, performance, and text.
Nelly insists upon things like: films that are slow, spaces that are soft, the awkwardness of inclusion, saying more, and repeating ourselves. She is currently a visiting professor at Northeastern University facilitating seminars in Media Art, Culture, and Social Justice and a research associate with MIT Spatial Sound Lab studying methods for spatializing open captions and haptics. Nelly Kate hails from the American South and works on the unceded lands of the Pawtucket, Massachusett, and Naumkeag nations.