Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego

As Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego (2022-2025), I organized numerous lectures, performances, and public programs in conjunction with the exhibitions I curated. A partial list is documented here.

2025
Artist talk by Border Craft exhibiting artist Jackie Amézquita. Organized as part of the Department of Visual Arts’ Guest Lecture Series. Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. May 27, 2025

Border Art in Special Collections & Archives, Geisel Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. May 21, 2025
An exploration of border-related arts collections held by UC San Diego’s Special Collections & Archives, including artworks, artifacts, and artists’ books from the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, inSite Archive, and more.

Fabiola Carranza’s The Mexican Husband / Un marido mexicano, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. April 2, 2025
This bilingual adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s one-act play “The Jewish Wife” (1937) follows the events of a husband’s final night with his wife in Los Angeles before running for the Mexican border. The Mexican Husband / Un marido mexicano is an account of the ways in which exclusionary immigration policies play out. It asks questions about the state of humanity in an era of immigration enforcement, border walls, and enduring prejudice, both visible and invisible. Fabiola Carranza is an artist, educator, and PhD candidate in Art Practice at UC San Diego.

Reading by students in LTWR113: Intercultural Writing Workshop, led by Dr. Amy Sara Carroll (Associate Professor of Literature and Writing), Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. March 12th, 2025

2024

The Portal’s Keeper Workshop led by LaJuné McMillian, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. May 29, 2024
Led by exhibiting artist LaJuné McMillian, organized a movement and meditation workshop for UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing. Participants’ created avatars and motion capture were integrated into visuals for a new site-specific commission exploring liberated Black realities for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery.

Artist Talk by LaJuné McMillian, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. May 28, 2024.
Organized an artist talk by multidisciplinary artist and educator LaJuné McMillian who creates art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination.

Saliva Bar, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. March 2-May 25, 2024
Orchestrate weekly activations of Lauren Lee McCarthy’s performative installation Saliva Bar with UC San Diego students. For her solo exhibition Bodily Autonomy, McCarthy has devised a saliva exchange station where visitors can trade their own samples with one another through the assistance of an attendant. The process sidesteps the anonymity of medical and corporate entities, and invites active discussions on data privacy, race, gender, and class as they pertain to genetic material.

2023

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal: Online Workshop led by Kimi Hanauer of the Center for Liberatory Practice and Poetry, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. December 2nd, 2023
Participants chronicle and rehearse practices for collective care and solidarity that emerge from everyday encounters. Through an exploration of artworks, poetry, theory, and political projects, they create a shared collection of scores for daily rehearsal that move us toward a horizon of autonomy and collective self-determination. Grounded in the framework of mutual aid, this workshop explores practices of collective care that sustain social movements and encourage daily bodily motion, experience, and presence. (Organized in conjunction with How We Gather)

Artist Talk by noé olivas Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. November 28th, 2023
Lecture by exhibiting artist noé olivas, organized in conjunction with How We Gather.

Touch Praxis: Workshop led by Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. November 11, 2023
Collaborators Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan lead this workshop exploring touch as a time-based medium and a system of co-creating knowledge. Participants will be led through somatic exercises, and have the option to engage in solo or small-group touch experiments. (Organized in conjunction with How We Gather)

A woven word web of our own / AWWWOOO: Workshop by Alice Yuan Zhang Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. October 21, 2023
How might it feel to be in a digital network together, but outside the fraught domains of Big Tech? What stories would we tell one another if we could store them on our own terms? This workshop explores the intimate canvas of a local network through a joint exercise in creative writing and server hosting. (Organized in conjunction with How We Gather)

And will be again… Roundtable Conversation, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. October 14, 2023
Led by exhibiting artists Cog•nate Collective with Dr. Wayne Yang (UC San Diego professor and John Muir College provost) and Dina Gilio Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant, scholar, educator, journalist and author in American Indian studies), this program expands on the underlying themes/aims of the artists’ new commission for the exterior screen of the Mandeville Art Gallery “And will be again…”. (Organized in conjunction with How We Gather)

Figure/Ground: Daumier’s Refugees, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. June 2, 2023
For this talk, Assistant Professor Jordan Rose focuses on a series of paintings and relief sculptures produced by Honoré Daumier in the years after the Revolution of 1848 that depict refugees in 19th-century Europe. (Organized in conjunction with the exhibition ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA.)

The Life Story of Meghan Markle: A Performance by Malik Gaines, Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA. June 1, 2023
The Life Story of Meghan Markle is not a biography, but rather a reflection, through sound and speech, on popular incongruities, mixed approaches to elite legacies, suspicious desires, and the difficulty of appearing. Gaines’ short performance in the Mandeville Art Gallery and its vicinity takes strands of what’s present and combines them with speculations about elsewhere. (Organized in conjunction with the exhibition ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA.)