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

Brian Karl

Brian Karl has worked as a writer, educator, curator, arts administrator, and media producer. As curator and administrator he has led and abetted numerous non-profit art organizations including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Harvestworks Media Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art-in-General, Creative Time, and the Kitchen. His writing on art has been published in A Blade of Grass, Apollo, Art in America, Art & Education, art-agenda, Artforum, e-flux, Flash Art, Frieze, Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, Momus, Observer Arts, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space online magazine. His writing on anthropology has been published in Cultural Anthropology, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of North African Studies, Technology and Culture and Migration Studies. Recent publications also include an essay for HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory on intersections of experimental media and ethnographic work. His video documentaries and art installations have been commissioned, screened and exhibited at Kadist Foundation, SALT Istanbul, UC Berkeley Experimental Ethnography Lab, the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Experimental Ethnography, the Whitney Biennial, and the New York and San Francisco Film Festivals. Among his collaborative works are Painted Devil (2005; Tirtza Even, co-director) and Death/Fast (2017; Özge Serin, co-director), experimental video documentaries on political and social conflicts in contemporary Turkey. His research includes sustained investigation of the intersection of modern-day indigenous cultural practices and ecological concerns in and around Clear Lake, California. He has taught courses widely on art, art history, cultural anthropology, ecology, media, and music at the New School, Fordham University, Colby College, Mills College, University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and the Bard College Prison Initiative Program.

Email: bkarl@ucsc.edu

Alexandra Moore

Alexandra Moore, PhD, is Curator and Head of Academic Programs at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) at UC Santa Cruz. Her work addresses the intersecting ideological roots of climate destruction, imperialism, and incarceration. She has worked on exhibitions including Weather and the Whale (2025-2026), Levester Williams: Our Bedrock (2025), Barring Freedom (2020–2021), jackie sumell: UC Santa Cruz Solitary Garden (2019–ongoing), and the UC Santa Cruz Crochet Coral Reef (2017). Moore has taught at UC Santa Cruz, Sarah Lawrence College, and Appalachian State University and has published in Art Journal, Paris Review Daily, and Journal of Curatorial Studies. She holds a PhD in Visual Studies from UC Santa Cruz. 

Email: alchmoor@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

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