Curators
Loujain Bager
Loujain Bager is an art historian, artist, and curator based in Los Angeles, California. She is currently pursuing an MA in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere at the University of Southern California, where she is completing her graduate thesis on contemporary artists in Saudi Arabia.
She has worked as a curatorial assistant at Leiminspace, a curatorial intern at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, and an intern in education at the California African American Museum (CAAM). In her free time, she is a member of SWANA-LA, a collective dedicated to advocating for the Southwest Asian & North Afrikan community on a local and global scale.
She received her BA in Art History with a minor in art from Florida International University.
Eve Moeykens-Arballo
Eve Moeykens-Arballo is a researcher and curator based in Los Angeles, California. She is currently pursuing an MA in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere at the University of Southern California. She is interested in the question of access as it relates to memory institutions (libraries, archives, and museums). Her curatorial practice concerns itself with the function of memory, and the understanding of historical processes and consciousness. In addition to her curatorial graduate work, she is completing coursework for a Graduate Certificate in Cinematic Arts Archiving and Preservation.
She served as consulting researcher for Sound Off: Silence + Resistance at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and has worked as an archival intern at the ONE Archives and NAVEL. She has also volunteered with the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and the Los Angeles Film Forum.
Eve studied French and Film Studies at Marlboro College. She was born in San Francisco, California and was raised in Burlington, Vermont.
Bianca M. Morán
Bianca M. Morán is an independent curator and educator based in Los Angeles. Her curatorial practice is invested in the deconstruction of anti-blackness within notions of “Latinidad” through interrogations of visual culture and historical narratives in both the U.S. and Latin America. A former K-16 educator in Los Angeles, her practice is deeply informed by education, and through relevant and responsive pedagogy. Her research interests include history, race and ethnicity, identity politics, diaspora, education and pedagogy, political theory, film and visual culture. Bianca is currently pursuing an MA in Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere at USC and holds an M Ed in Education from UCLA and a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley. She also completed a culinary arts program at Le Cordon Bleu. Bianca is currently working as a curator and public programs coordinator at Active Cultures, a public arts organization working at the intersection of food and art. She was born in Los Angeles and raised between the Bay Area and LA. Bianca is also a single mother raising her daughter, Paloma.
Carlo Tuason
Carlo Tuason is a curator, scholar, and musician based in Los Angeles. He received his BA in International Affairs and BM in Music Performance from the University of Cincinnati and the College-Conservatory of Music. He his completing his MA in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere at the University of Southern California. Currently, his research explores protest art, cultural production, and visuality in the Anti-Extradition Law and Bill Movement in Hong Kong. His research and curatorial interests include contemporary art, diaspora, protest movements, decolonial theory, critical theory, and political visual culture in the Asia-Pacific region and Asian America. Tuason produces, records, and releases music under the name “Chay Guan.” His music fuses elements of R&B, hip hop, folk, and electronic music to explore the complexities of navigating loneliness and change.
Joseph Daniel Valencia
Joseph Daniel Valencia is an arts administrator, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles and Orange County, CA. He is invested in advancing a more inclusive art world that centers women, queer people, and people of color. Since 2016, Joseph has organized or co-organized nearly 100 public programs and contributed to over 20 exhibitions at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, including the retrospective exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell (2017-2020), and solo projects by Gabriela Ruiz, Guadalupe Rosales, Rafael Cardenas, and Patrick Martinez. He is pursuing an MA in Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere at the University of Southern California, and completing his thesis on the generative role of nightlife for a queer of color network of artists and cultural producers in Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Art and Art History from California State University, Fullerton.