Creative works
I am a practicing artist and curator/editor who specializes in creative geographies: the intersection of geographic thought, the arts, and arts practices.
As an editor and curator, I purposefully foster artistic spaces that invite reflection on identity, difference, power, and draw on critical knowledge traditions. My own artistic work explores themes of queer/trans embodiment, nature, space, and belonging.
On this page, you can explore
My curatorial and editorial work in creative geographies
My art projects
My scholarly writing on creative geographies
Published collections I have edited/curated
the 2023 issue of you are here: the journal of creative geography. Click title to see the call for submissions.
with Cassidy Schoenfelder (editor) and Deborah Ruiz (design and layout)
you are here: the journal of creative geography 2022
with Deborah Ruiz (design and layout)
you are here: the journal of creative geography 2021
with Emma Lawlor (editor) & Deborah Ruiz (design and layout)
Exhibited collections I have curated
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The Critical Futures Visual Archive is a collection of critical creative geographic works I curated in 2017. You can learn more about the exhibit through my writing: On the methodological potential of creative work in geography, see Experimenting with creative geographic methods in The Critical Futures Visual Archive. On the institutional and disciplinary barriers to incorporating creative works into geography, see: At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography (2019).
The Critical Futures Visual Archive explores the intersection of geographic knowledge, visual representation, and creative expression as a site for critical thought, knowledge production, and practice in our hallways and beyond.
The archive experiments with alternative modes of geographic thought, experience, and representation, engaging themes of militarization, gentrification, race, place, identity, diaspora, violence, gender, social (in)justice, memory, representation, landscape, borders, and space.
Through various media and methods, contributing artists have posed reflections and launched critiques, crafted experiments and weaved narratives, documented the past and reimagined the future of geographic knowledge and scholarly practice.
We invite you to join us in the task of crafting a critical archive that might yet give shape to our collective futures, to contribute to a generative and engaged scholarly practice committed to questioning convention, upsetting boundaries, and insisting on the transformative potential of intellectual debate and creative expression.
My projects
35 mm slide montage
landscape; horizon; utopia; queer visuality
under preparation for submission to countercartographies, you are here: the journal of creative geography, 2023.
will be exhibited at Union Hall Gallery, Denver in Against Nature, 2023
installation & portraits
natural history; taxonomy; trans subjectivity; monstrosity; magic; love.
published in queer ecologies, you are here: the journal of creative geography, 2022.
will be exhibited at Union Hall Gallery, Denver in Against Nature, 2023
Exhibited at: Toward decolonial feminisms: A conference inspired by the work of María Lugones, Pennsylvania State University, May, 2018.
Exhibited at: The Critical Futures Visual Archive. Pennsylvania State University, Oct. 2017
Scholarship on creative geographies
Scholarship on creative geographies published in peer-reviewed journals
This article describes an exhibit I curated as part of a critical geography conference at Pennsylvania State University. It explores what creative methods can offer to geographic thinking.
This article explores how critical-creative geographic work can intervene in dominant histories, identities, and cultures in the discipline and illuminate the exclusions of the institutional and intellectual spaces we inhabit as geographers.
A panel discussion with featured artists in the queer ecologies-themed gallery show Against Nature.
Curatorial and editorial writing
queer ecologies: an editorial introduction in queer ecologies, you are here: the journal of creative geography.
forward: in search of a queer ecology in queer ecologies, you are here: the journal of creative geography.
bodies & politics: an editorial introduction with Emma Lawlor in bodies & politics, you are here: the journal of creative geography.