| Mary Jo
Aagerstoun (roundtable co-chair) is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at
the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also working
toward her Certificate in Women's Studies. Her dissertation working
title is: "The Gendered Monstrous in U. S. Activist Art of the
1980s and 1990s." She received the David Lloyd Kreeger Prize for
Excellence in Art History from George Washington University and has
lectured at the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution,
the national conference of the Women's Caucus for Art, and the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County on feminism and art history,
and on abject art. In 1999 she edited a special issue of the online
journal massage
on the "monstrous feminine," and chaired a panel on this topic
at the annual Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference. In 1996
she was a Museum Fellow at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, working with the
museum's New Media curator, Philip Brookman, on the
performance/exhibition of Guillermo Gómez Peña's Temple of Confessions
and a retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Gordon Parks. She
is a founding board member of NOMADS, a Washington, D.C.-based
curatorial project that specializes in web-based art exhibitions and
criticism. She also organized the 10-site exhibition of Judy Chicago's
Birth Project in Washington, DC in 1986, and served on the board of Judy
Chicago's organization Through the Flower for several years.
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