Lecturers

Consuelo Endrigo-Williams

Consuelo Endrigo-Williams completed a Master’s degree in art history from the DAMS (Disciplines of Art, Music, and Performance) at the Universitá di Bologna. Her recent research focuses on the representation of Black subjects in the Early Modern period while interrogating the dominant Western aesthetic. She is passionate about critical studies in art and shares her enthusiasm in every class she teaches. While in Bologna, she lectured and conducted art laboratories for the Museum of Modern Art. She was also the Coordinator of Villa Impero, an exhibition space specialized in photography and worked for Photology, the photography art gallery managing the villa. Before moving to southern California in 2008, Endrigo-Williams worked in several of New York City’s internationally renowned art galleries and museums, including The International Center for Photography (ICP) and Grassi Studio. She taught Italian for several years in San Diego and at Syracuse University from 2014-2022. A new resident in Santa Cruz County since September 2022, Professor Endrigo-Williams is enthusiastic about working with students and colleagues in the History of Art & Visual Culture Department.

Email: cendrigo@ucsc.edu

Gaby Greenlee

Gaby Greenlee has taught coursework on the Indigenous visual cultures of North, Central, and South America in the precontact and early colonial periods. Her own research focus is the visual culture of the Inkas (South America) between the 15th and 17th centuries CE, an era spanning the height of their empire and early contact with Europeans. Her current work considers how the Inka empire used elite textiles as part of an ideology of relational attachment to the Andean landscape and its peoples and how this corresponds to other spatial and material conceptualizations, including notions of territoriality. Themes that her writing bridges on more broadly include how fiber and cloth translate as materialities of power, super/natural ecologies in the Andean context, and women’s roles within imperial strategy. Her research has recently been supported by a postdoctoral Marilynn Thoma Fellowship in Art of the Spanish Americas and an American Council of Learned Sciences (ACLS) project grant.

Email: gagreenl@ucsc.edu

Tatiane Santa Rosa

Dr. Tatiane Santa Rosa is a program manager of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in Visual Studies from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at University of California Santa Cruz. She was a visiting faculty at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of California Santa Cruz. Her dissertation investigated the representation of racial miscegenation and whiteness in transnational photographic practices of Brazilian contemporary artists. As an independent curator, she organized exhibitions at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, NARS Foundation, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, at the Fundação Pró-Memória in São Paulo, Brazil, and at the ArteActual FLASCO in Quito, Ecuador. She has an MFA from the Art Writing Master’s Degree Program at the School of Visual Arts (NY), and an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (NY). 

Email: trosa@ucsc.edu

Gerui Wang

Gerui Wang’s research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Her forthcoming book From Painting to Pillow: Landscape, Governance and Ecology in China, 1000-1400 demonstrates the overlooked ecological thinking and notions of “sustainability” manifested in flourishing landscape imagery across artistic media, medicinal treatises, cartographical practices, and geographical writings. Gerui’s new project examines artificial intelligence and contemporary art, especially works produced by Asian Artists or Artists of the Asian Diaspora.

Email: gwang81@ucsc.edu

Martabel Wasserman

Martabel Wasserman is an artist, writer and curator living in Santa Cruz, CA. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Art and Art History at Stanford University where she is working on a dissertation on representations of Alcatraz. She received her MFA from UC Irvine and BA from Harvard University. Solo exhibitions include “Rethinking Ecology” as part of the Museum of Art and History’s CommonGround Biennial in Santa Cruz and “Seashell Aesthetics” at Human Resources in Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Pitzer College Art Galleries, Robert Berman Gallery and Elephant Art Space. Wasserman has curated several exhibitions at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA, where she previously worked as the Curator of Community Engagement. Other curatorial projects have been exhibited at Human Resources, CA Cinefamily Theater, Maloney Fine Arts in and the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. She has published in The Burlington Magazine, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Simon and Fraser’s Comparative Media Arts Journal. 

Email: mowasser@ucsc.edu