Teaching / Research / Advising

MacDowell Artist Residency, (Peterborough, NH) 2024

Headlands Center for the Arts, The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program (Sausalito, California), McLaughlin Foundation Award, 2023

ArtistsU and MassMoCa’s Assets for Artists (A4A) Fellow, 2022-2023

Project Evolution Grant, The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts,
ValleyCreates Program, 2023-2024

Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow, 2021-2022

Working Capital Grants Program Award, Fall 2021 / The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’ Valley Creates Program in partnership with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists,Fall 2021

Artist Fellowship in Film & Video from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2021-2022
May 24/2021

Rosenthal Examiner at Hampshire College / Amherst, MA, 2020-2021

Five College Artist in Residence / 2020-2022
Five Colleges Incorporated (FCI), Amherst, MA / South Hadley, MA

Filmmaking in the 21st Century: Visiting Professors Series / University of Massachusetts
Amherst / Spring, 2021 / Amherst, MA

Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College,
Art and the History of Art | Film and Media Studies / Spring 2021 / Amherst, MA

Assistant Visiting Professor of Video and Film      

Hampshire College, School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Amherst, MA / 2016-2020

 Research Associate                  

Five College Women's Studies Research Center / Five College Incorporated,
Amherst, MA / 2017 - 2018 / 2018 - 2019 / 2019-2020

  Screenwriting Summer Program Faculty Director

      Hampshire College Summer Programs, 2017 / 2018

 Artist in residency at Denniston Hill

Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY / Summer 2018

   Faculty / Researcher Fellow 

      University of California, San Diego / 2007–2009

Visiting Faculty / Lecturer

                  University of California, San Diego / 2009–2016

•   Department of Communication / Department of Visual Arts

Cuando La Rumorosa Calla / When La Rumorosa Quiets
(17min, Spanish with English subtitles, Mexico, 2020) 

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Publications And Interviews

  •   SHORTS MEXICO International Shorts Film Festival, Mexico City, MX
    Q/A Wednesday 9/9/2020

  •   VIVA LA L, New York, 8/30/20

  • DIANDRA REVIEWS IT ALL, New York, 8/3/2020

  • LINOTIPIA, Digital Magazine, Interview (Spanish) by Jacqueline Hernandez,
    Tijuana, Baja California, MX 5/11/2020

  • DIARIAS, a project by Mexican performance artist from Mexico, City, Lorena Wolfer
    ivited by artist, poet and art critic, Sara Amy Caroll, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature and Writing, Literature Department at University of California, San Diego, 8/10/2020

  • ASTERIX JOURNAL: Topping from the bottom: A CONVERSATION WITH KEGELS FOR HEGEL AND PATRICIA MONTOYA By Amy Sara Carroll, Arts, Interviews, 5/28/2018

  • ARTE DE VIVIR iconic and now defunct arts magazine, Arte de Vivir, edited by cultural promoter, writer, actor and LGBTQ activist, Max Mejia (RIP-2015). Max is a principal actor in my short SOMETIMES WALKING. SOMETIMES SITTING. ALWAYS CARRYING OUR OWN CHAIRS (Tijuana, Baja California, MX, 2007)




    Production

      •       Cuando La Rumorosa Calla (When La Rumorosa Quiets)
    (Mexico, 17 min, 2020)

    •       Take Me to Yr Borderlands (Love Song to Gloria E. Anzaldúa),
    Music Video, 2018

      •       Interactive Media Certificate Program Portfolio (IMCP / 2016)

      •       North County LGBTQ Resource Center Promotional Video, 2014

      •       San Diego Youth Services, PEEP Promotional Video, 2014

      •       The Wellness Source, Promotional Video, 2014

      •        Poema en Canvas, One Day In San Diego, 4/26/2014

       •        San Diego Human Dignity Foundation Fundraising Video, 2013

      •        Terrazas Triptych 2009

       •        Medellin, como te convierto en un objeto? / Medellin, how can I turn you

    into an object? (10 min. 2009)

       •        Sometimes Walking.  Sometimes Sitting.  Always Carrying Our Own Chairs. 
                (15 min. 2007)

       •       Candide (10 min. 2005--Remastered 2009)

       •     Paraguas / Umbrellas (20 min. 2004)

       •        El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista que no esta
                (10 min. 1996)

       •       A Ride Out / Una Vuelta (10 min. 1993

      Exhibitions / Conferences [Selection]

•        Latin American Studies Association, LASA, Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion, Boston, May, 24 2019 LASA Section Roundtable - Anzaldua and the Latinx World: 32 Years After "Borderlands" Sponsor: Latino Studies Session Organizer: Rebeca L Hey-Colon, Temple USA /

•        El Mundo Zurdo: BORDERLANDS 1987 - 2018, Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (SSGA) and Trinity University, May 2018

•        Sometimes by Chance the Two Collide, Hampshire College Gallery, MA, 2017

•        Crossing Paths Latina and Latin American Women Filmmakers in Los Angeles,
         REDCAT, LA 2017

•        Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles,  2014

•        CONTROverse: Contemporary Visions of the US-Mexico Border, Southwester
         College, Chula Vista, CA, 2010

      •        Here Not There San Diego Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
               San Diego, CA 2010

      •        San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, California 2010

      •        BorDocs Foro Documental Tijuana, Tijuana, MX 2009

      •        The 11th Annual Freewaves Festival of Experimental Media Art, 2008

      •        Cuarto Festival y Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes, Tijuana, México, 2007

      •        The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: Third World Newsreel at Thirty, 1998

      •        The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: Lesbian Genders, 1996

        Degrees

    •      MFA Visual Arts  / University of California, San Diego, 2007

                 •      MA Media Studies  / New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2004

           •      BA Liberal Arts  / New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2001

  Training and Certificates

•      Interactive Media Certificate Program (IMCP) / San Diego Continuing Education,
        2015-2016

•      College Counseling Certificate / UCSD Extension, 2016

•      Film & Video Production Workshop  / Third World Newsreel, New York, NY, 1993

         Links

•    Denniston Hill

•    El Mundo Zurdo: BORDERLANDS 1987 - 2018

•     Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, Pacific Standard Time, LA/LA

•     Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

• BorDocs Foro Documental

•     Freewaves LA

•     Highways Performance Space

•     IMCP Portfolio Website

•     GLAMFA (Greater Los Angeles Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition)

•    Third World Newsreel

•    San Diego Latino Film Festival

•    UCSD Department of Communication, Binacom

                   •    UCSD Newsletter

                   •    UCSD Department of Visual Arts    

•     Downtown Community Television Center

•     El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice                         

•     Women Make Movies