Catherine Lord: The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

Born in Roseau, Dominica, Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Studio Art at UC Irvine, is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She has also served as Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts and has taught at Harvard College, Goddard College, and SUNY Purchase. She is the author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation and the co-author (with Richard Meyer) of Art and Queer Culture. Her most recent book is The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men(no place press, 2023). She has been shown at Site Santa Fe, La Mama Gallery, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and elsewhere. She divides her time between Hudson, NY and Manhattan.

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the steirischerherbst ’23 in Graz.