Mark I. West is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. He is especially interested urban children’s literature. I recently visited Faith Ringgold: American People, the New Museum’s retrospective exhibit of Ringgold’s art. I was looking at Ringgold’s two… Read more »
This week’s contributing writer, Henna Wang, is one of the co-founders of Collective Heritage, whose mission is to make art and culture more accessible through mobile technology. Her team is developing an app for all museums and cultural destinations that delivers curatorial content in multiple languages. Their app is currently in a pilot phase with… Read more »
This week’s contributing blogger, Melanie Bühler, is an independent curator working at the intersection of digital culture and contemporary art. She is responsible for the discussion series Lunch Bytes and the exhibition and research project Inflected Objects. A Fulbright recipient, she is presently pursuing an MA degree at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. “As a net… Read more »