Wed, Aug 26 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Trevor Paglen’s work has been shown at Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Protocinema Istanbul; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Modern; and numerous other venues. He has collaborated with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture to be exhibited in Fukushima, Japan.

Wed, Aug 12 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

With over two decades of experience developing and leading artistic programs, Dorothy Dávila is Chief of Curatorial Initiatives at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she drives program strategy and implementation across visual arts, film, education, and public programming. Previously, she served as Director of Creative Partnerships at Public Art Fund, where she led the permanent art program for John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6. She has held roles at Headlands Center for the Arts, YBCA, and Harvard Art Museums. During her prior tenure as Director of Program at YBCA, Dorothy oversaw dozens of exhibitions, performances, and public art installations, instilling in her a passion for collaborating with artists to realize creative projects. At YBCA, she curated Tom Sachs: Space Program: Europa in 2016 and co-curated Edgar Arceneaux with Lucía Sanromán in 2017. Dorothy has served as Finance Chair on the boards of ArtTable in New York City and The Lab in San Francisco.

Wed, Jul 15 • 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian, and writer. Since 2026, he has been Head of the artistic project at ParCO in Parma, and since 2022, he has been Curator of Contemporary Arts and Cultures at MUCIV - Museo delle Civiltà in Rome. Since 2011, together with Judith Wielander, he has curated Visible, a research and support project for socially engaged artistic practices in a global context—initiated by Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna and supported since 2024 by the Zegna brand—which has led to the creation of an immaterial collection of more than 200 artistic projects and the first European award for socially engaged artistic practices.

Wed, Jul 1 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Nicole Nikolich, also known as Lace In The Moon, is a Philadelphia-based crochet installation and street artist. She received her BFA in Fashion Merchandising from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a self-taught fiber artist whose practice emerged through involvement in the Philadelphia street art community, later expanding into larger-scale and permanent pieces and installations.

Wed, Jun 17 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

TK Smith is an award-winning independent curator, writer, and cultural historian. He most recently served as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, Smith served as Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation. Smith’s writing has been published in exhibition catalogues, academic journals, and periodicals, including Art Papers where he is a contributing editor.

Wed, Jun 3 • 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Carlos Motta (b. 1978) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores sexuality, gender, and power through historical research and collaborative practice. In 2024, Motta presented Gravidade (Gravity) at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, and participated in Disobedience Archive, a project by Marco Scotini at La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. His mid-career survey Carlos Motta: Pleas of Resistance was presented at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in 2025 and will travel to OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz in 2026.

“Future Schools”, National Academy of Design (NYC), co-curated by Nato Thompson

Colette Copeland for Times Square’s Midnight Moment, “Galaxias tou Gala (Milk Galaxy)” co-presented by Times Square Arts and The Alternative Art School (TAAS).