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contributors
ERIN HANEY
TAO LEIGH GOFFE
Tao Leigh Goffe is an Assistant Professor of Africana
Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at Cornell University. She teaches courses
on vernaculars that emerge from histories of
imperialism, migration, and globalization. Her
research examines visual, sonic, sensory, and ghost
cultures across the Americas.
MARISA LERER
Marisa Lerer is an assistant professor of art history
at Manhattan College, where she teaches courses
in modern and contemporary art. She specializes
in Latin American and Latinx art, public art, and
memorials. Her interest in art and social justice
movements are reflected in her publications, which
have appeared in the journals Public Art Dialogue
and Visual Resources, among others. She has been
honored with fellowships from Fulbright, New
York University/Le Centre national de la recherche
scientifique, and CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture
and Politics. She is currently working on a book
examining memorials to Argentina’s victims of
state-sponsored terrorism.
Erin Haney covers art, photography, media
histories, activism, and creative institutions
internationally. Her recent book, Priya Ramrakha:
The Recovered Archive (Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2018),
is part of an ongoing collaboration that includes
traveling exhibitions of Ramrakha’s photography in
Johannesburg, Nairobi, Arles, and the U.S. Prior, she
curated Sailors and Daughters for the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of African Art and is the author
of Photography and Africa (Reaktion, London, 2010).
Haney currently teaches in the Washington, DC
area and is a Research Associate at VIAD, University
of Johannesburg.
pen + brush
Pen and Brush is a 125-year-old publicly supported not-for-
profit fighting for gender equity in the arts. Pen and Brush
provides a platform to showcase the work of female artists
and writers to a broader audience with the ultimate goal of
affecting real change within the marketplace. We encourage
and mentor emerging professionals and aim to expose the
stereotypes and misconceptions that perpetuate gender-
based exclusion, lack of recognition, and the devaluation of
skill that is still experienced by women in the arts. At Pen and
Brush, we believe that art and literature created by women
deserves to be recognized and valued on its merit – not
judged by the gender of the maker.
[www.penandbrush.org]
ISABELLA ELLAHEH HUGHES
Isabella Ellaheh Hughes’ career spans the arts,
culture, agriculture, and entrepreneurship. She is
the co-founder and Director Emeritus of Honolulu
Biennial Foundation (HBF) and President and
co-founder of Shaka Tea. A frequent juror in the
arts and contributor to exhibition catalogues and
publications, she has written for ArtAsiaPacific,
Frieze, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, Barjeel Art
Foundation, Singapore Art Museum, Aga Khan
Museum, among others. She is also the editor of the
monograph Sand Rushes In: Sama Alshaibi (Aperture
Foundation). Hughes sits on the board of HBF and
the Hawaii Technology & Development Corporation,
and is an advisor for the Terasaki Conservancy.
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MIRIAM ROMAIS
Miriam Romais is an arts professional, curator,
and award-winning photographer whose work
addresses topics of home, community, feminism,
labor, and food politics. She has exhibited at
galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and
abroad, including El Museo del Barrio, Museum
of the City of New York, and the Smithsonian
Institution. For 23 years, Romais was the director
of En Foco—a nonprofit that supports U.S.-based
photographers of Latinx, African, Asian, and Native
American heritage—and editor of its photographic
journal, Nueva Luz. She’s currently the Marketing
& Strategic Development Advisor for the Center
for Photography at Woodstock, and Partnerships
Manager for The News Literacy Project.
about us
OF NOTE Magazine is a nonprofit arts journalism initiative
and free online magazine where art meets activism. Founded
by Grace Aneiza Ali in 2012, its issues have featured
artists who are confronting gun violence against women,
examining the experiences of Muslim women who wear
the burqa, raising awareness for girls’ access to education
worldwide, and more. We champion underrepresented
artists, specifically women and artists of color, and writers
from global regions who have limited opportunities because
of social, cultural, geographic, or economic barriers. We also
partner with higher education institutions to turn our issues
into curriculum, bringing the work of global artists into the
classroom.
[www.ofnotemagazine.org]