Contributors
Silví Naçí is a curator and artist living and working in Boston. Her family moved to the U.S. from a war zone (formerly Communist) for a better life in 2001, two months prior to 9.11. Naci studied at the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico 2004), Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy 2008), and graduated from the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University with a dual degree in Fine Arts & Graphic Design (2011). She was a curatorial intern at MIT's LIST Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA), the Cloud Foundation (Boston, MA) and Artists for Humanity (South Boston, MA). Naci served as Assistant Director at Samsøñ (Boston, MA), Art Director at the Liquid Art House (Boston, MA) and curator at the Fourth Wall Project (Boston, MA), the Distillery Gallery (South Boston, MA), and the Blanc Gallery (Dorchester, MA). Currently, Naci is getting her MFA at CalArts, and continues to work as independent curator, staff writer and editor at Big Red & Shiny.13 Articles
Joshua Fischer is a curator and writer. He recently moved to Boston from Houston, Texas, where he worked at Rice University Art Gallery and specialized in commissioning site-specific installations.13 Articles
Michael Rose holds a B.A. in Art History from Providence College. He is a freelance writer and contributor to the Daily Red blog, where he writes on architecture. You can find him on Twitter at @mikerosetalks.12 Articles
Alexander Castro is a freelance writer and journalist based in the Providence/Boston area. His writing has appeared in Big Red & Shiny, Newport Mercury and Art New England. He won First Place in the ‘Arts Review or Criticism’ category at the 2015 Rhode Island Press Association Editorial Awards.12 Articles
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer. Through endurance and duration her works examine: beginnings and endings, phases, and the way in which the body on an elemental level is rooted to space. She has exhibited extensively across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, notably in London, Tokyo and Sydney, among others. Coon is the author of No One Thing is the Root of All Anything: Phases and Performance of the Imminent (NOT A CULT, 2018) and is the Art Director of FUCK ALL Performance Art Festival. She received her BFA (2012, School of the Museum of Fine Arts), MFA (2014, Tufts University), and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Theatre, Performance and Contemporary Live Arts (2015, University of Applied Sciences and Arts’ Scuola Teatro Dimitri). Coon lives in Los Angeles and Boston.11 Articles
Margaret Rew is the gallery director at Howard Yezerski Gallery by day and fledgling writer by night. She graduated from Tufts University in 2011 with a degree in Art History and Political Science. Her daily art blog, artforbreakfast.org, chronicles the story behind, beneath and within one piece of art every day.10 Articles
Evan is a graduate candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. His writing has appeared in BR&S, Art New England and ASPECT.9 Articles
David Curcio is an artist who lives and works in Watertown, MA. His work can be viewed at davidcurcio.com9 Articles
Frank Redner received his B.A. in Art History from Columbia University. He works in a contemporary art gallery and devotes his energies to interpreting and sharing art contexts and content.8 Articles
Raina Belleau is an artist living and working in Providence, RI. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been shown at the Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND), Not Gallery (Austin, TX), GRIN (Providence, RI) and in multiple group exhibitions around the country and is one half of the artist duo Belleau + Churchill.8 Articles