Amelia Rina
Founder, Editor in Chief, and Board President
Amelia (she/they) is a writer, editor, and critic with an MFA in Art Criticism & Writing from School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, and a BFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Their writing has been published in BOMB Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Aperture, New Archives, among others. Read recently published work on her website.
Originally from the Bay, Amelia now lives in Portland, OR, on the unceded territories of the Clackamas and Cowlitz nations.
Ella Ray
Associate Editor and Board Secretary
Ella Ray is a writer and library worker concerned with the manner in which refusal and worldbuilding can be embodied in visual and performance art. These lines of study are augmented by Ray’s investment in Black feminist thought, formal and conceptual experimentation, and cross-diasporic community. Since graduating from Portland State University in 2018, they’ve supported various institutions with exhibition writing, programming, and critical consultation. Ray made their curatorial debut in 2021 with the group show Nobody’s Fool, hosted by Carnation Contemporary.
Ray’s essays, reviews, and research have appeared in/on Variable West, Cult Classic Magazine, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s website, in exhibition catalogs for King School Museum of Contemporary Art, and more. Beyond work, Ella is committed to being a sister and a friend.
Jasmine Mahmoud
Board Treasurer
Jasmine Mahmoud is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies at the University of Washington, with affiliate/adjunct appointments in Art History and Comparative History of Ideas.
An arts journalist and scholar, Mahmoud writes about minoritized artists often excluded from official archives. She has over 50 articles, essays, interviews, and reviews in academic journals including Modern Drama, Performance Research, TDR: The Drama Review, and Women & Performance, and in arts and community-centered publications including Art Forum, Canadian Art Review, Crosscut’s Black Arts Legacies series, Howlround, Hyperallergic, LitHub, South Seattle Emerald, and Variable West. She also has curated three visual art exhibitions with attention to Black aesthetics.
Based in Seattle, Washington
Jaime Salazar
Consulting Product Manager
Jaime (he/him) is a Product Manager and Photographer. He has been delivering web-based software for over a decade, while also shooting portraits, music festivals, and DIY music shows.
His photos have been published by Dazed & Confused, Maximum Rocknroll, Artforum, Metal Sucks, Miami New Times, No Thoughts Magazine, Self Titled Mag, VICE, and others. See more of Jaime’s photography on his website.
Based in Portland, OR.
