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Johanna Almiron

Non-Tenure Track Lecturer
ARTS & CULTURE SCHOLAR & CRITIC Over twenty years as an educator in the humanities sector collaborating with museums, higher education institutions, grassroots organizations, and cultural heritage organizations to realize ambitious and generative projects and social justice initiatives
The Untold Story of Michael Stewart
University of Texas at Austin

Work experiences

Featured Artist

The Untold Story of Michael Stewart

Apr 2021 ~ Apr 2023
2 yrs 1 mo
• Untitled (Basquiat) : Portrait of an Artist as Trickster, Featured Speaker, Intra-Disciplinary

Editorial and Consultant

Poorman's Counterfeit Rizzoli

Sep 2021 ~ Mar 2023
1 yr 7 mos
• Basquiat in the Studio : Blue Ribbon Variations Princeton University Art Museum, Peer Review,

Jean-Michel

Nahmad Gallery, Catalog Essay, Basquiat : The Art and Objecthood

Nov 2022 ~ Nov 2022
1 mo
SELECTED TEACHING & ADVISING Undergraduate Seminars : Introduction to American Studies Popular Culture Approaches to American Studies Teaching as Art and Social Practice Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnicity Introduction to Black Visual Culture Race and Representation Global Hip Hop and Visual Cultures Filipinos in Hawai'i Graduate Seminars : Asian American Literature and Culture Filipino Americans : History , Culture , and Politics American Film History Visual Culture and Critical Race Theory Black Womxn Artists 1 Selected Topics of Graduate and Undergraduate Theses : • Human Rights and Art Activism at the U.S. Mexico Border Mira Seyal , M.A. , Human Rights Studies Columbia University Arts and Social Protest Denzel McDonald; Eric Newble , Afro - American Studies , B.A. , UW Madison • Rhetoric , Politics , and Culture Abigail Escatel; Shereen Yousuf , Marissa Fernholz; Ph.D. Communications , UW Madison • Race and Queer Literary Studies Meredith Nnoka; Adam Schuster; Ph.D. , English , UW Madison • Afro-Pessimism Michael Davis , Ph.D. Education , UW Madison , Restorative Justice and Youth Bianca Gomez , M.A. Afro-American Studies , UW Madison , Black Youth Project and Healing Ife Williams Ph.D. , Department of Civil Society and Community Research , UW Madison MUSEUM EXPERIENCE AND PUBLICATIONS Exhibitions and Catalogs : • Basquiat versus Everybody Nahmad Gallery , Catalog Essay , Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Art and Objecthood , November 2022

Adjunct Part Time Lecturer

Ramapo College

Mar 2022 ~ May 2022
3 mos
• Adjunct Part Time Lecturer, School of Arts

Adjunct Assistant Professor

The Cooper Union School of Arts

Sep 2021 ~ Nov 2021
3 mos

Featured Speaker

Reading Partners, Celebrating Asian American

Jun 2004 ~ Jun 2021
17 yrs 1 mo
• Asian Americans Film Series, Filipinx Solidarity Collective, Discussant, 19 May, 2021 • Founding Member of Filipinx Solidarity Collective, Featured Guest, CommUnity Brew, Nyack Center, 7 May, 2021 •

Keynote Speaker

Rebel Archive

Apr 2021 ~ Apr 2021
1 mo
• J. Faith Almiron on Abolitionist Pedagogy within and beyond institutions, Ideas on Fire podcast, Special Guest, April 2021

Subject Expert & Guest Editor

Poorman's Counterfeit Rizzoli

Oct 2020 ~ Oct 2020
1 mo

Part-Time Lecturer

Rutgers University

Jan 2019 ~ Dec 2019
1 yr 0 mos

Black Cultural Studies Specialist

Visual Culture

Jan 2014 ~ Dec 2019
6 yrs 0 mos

Moderator

Kind of Tomorrow, , Guggenheim Museum

Nov 2019 ~ Nov 2019
1 mo
• New Art Histories for Some Kind of Tomorrow , Moderator , Guggenheim Museum , Nov 2019

Guest Speaker

Open Society Foundations

Nov 2019 ~ Nov 2019
1 mo

Moderator

Multicultural Resource Center, Oberlin College

May 2019 ~ May 2019
1 mo

Alternate Fellow

University of Wisconsin

Jan 2017 ~ Dec 2017
1 yr 0 mos
• Finalist, Assistant Professorship at Department of Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of Arts - • New York University, March 2016

Moderator

University of Wisconsin

Apr 2016 ~ Apr 2016
1 mo
Center for Visual Cultures & Dept. of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2015 AWARDS & HONORS • Fall Competition, Office of the Vice- Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2019-2020

Conversation with Artist

The University of Wisconsin

Feb 2016 ~ Feb 2016
1 mo
Revolution in the Streets of Egypt, Center for Visual Cultures & Dept. of Afro-American Studies,

Visiting Researcher

Department of Anthropology

Jan 2013 ~ Dec 2014
2 yrs 0 mos
SELECTED TEACHING & ADVISING Undergraduate Seminars : Introduction to American Studies Popular Culture Approaches to American Studies Teaching as Art and Social Practice Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnicity Introduction to Black Visual Culture Race and Representation Global Hip Hop and Visual Cultures Filipinos in Hawai'i Graduate Seminars : Asian American Literature and Culture Filipino Americans : History, Culture, and Politics American Film History Visual Culture and Critical Race Theory Black Womxn Artists 1 Selected Topics of Graduate and Undergraduate Theses : • Human Rights and Art Activism at the U.S. Mexico Border Mira Seyal, M.A., Human Rights Studies Columbia University Arts and Social Protest Denzel McDonald; Eric Newble, Afro - American Studies, B.A., UW Madison • Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture Abigail Escatel; Shereen Yousuf, Marissa Fernholz; Ph.D. Communications, UW Madison • Race and Queer Literary Studies Meredith Nnoka; Adam Schuster; Ph.D., English, UW Madison • Afro-Pessimism Michael Davis, Ph.D. Education, UW Madison, Restorative Justice and Youth Bianca Gomez, M.A. Afro-American Studies, UW Madison, Black Youth Project and Healing Ife Williams Ph.D., Department of Civil Society and Community Research, UW Madison MUSEUM EXPERIENCE AND PUBLICATIONS Exhibitions and Catalogs : • Basquiat versus Everybody

Educations

University of Texas at Austin

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Rutgers

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New York University

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University of Hawai'i

Ph.D.

- 2013

New York University

M.A.

- 2002

Oberlin College

B.A.

- 2001
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