AWARDS
Brown Boi Leadership Institute, Oakland CA, 2013.
2025
Selected Participant, Making, Collecting, and Conserving Prints: A Curatorial Seminar, organized by the UCLA Grunwald Canter for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Scholarship recipient, Playwright's Workshop: From Idea to Page, Teatro Vivo, Austin, TX
2022
Screenplay Finalist, Fall 2022 Program: Amplifying Latinx Stories, M Film Lab
2021-2023
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar Fellow
2021-2022
E. Carmen Ramos, ed. ¡Printing the Revolution! Chicano Graphics, The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum: Princeton: in association with Princeton University Press, 2020.
Best Arts Book GOlD Medal: International Latino Book Awards
Alice Award Short List
Finalist, College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr Jr. Prize
Recipient, Association for Latin American Art’s ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award
2015-2020
Meadows Graduate Student Council Travel Grant Recipient
2019
Student Scholarship Recipient, Digital Humanities + Latinx Studies: Doing Work that Matters, Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 3-7.
2017
East Austin Studio Tour Fellowship (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
2015
Dean’s Departmental Award at SMU Research Day in Art History
2014
East Austin Studio Tour Fellowship (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
Austin City Council Proclamation "Puro Chingón Collective Day: June 20." (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
Mexic-Arte Museum Outstanding Supporter/Partner
Juiceland Make Your Mark Mural Contest Winner (as part of Puro Chingon Collective)
Meadows Doctoral Fellowship in Art History
2013
Brown Boi Leadership Institute Selectee, Oakland CA, November 23-27,
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) Leadership Institute Graduate, July 15-20.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Work of Art: Independent or Public Project, “Changarrito” Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, Changarrito curator and programmer, May 23.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Solo Gallery Exhibition, “Miguel Aragón: Fractured Memories, Assembled Trauma” Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 23.
SXSWi Revolucionario Awards “The Mobilizer” Nominee
Downtown Austin Alliance, Art and Placemaking Grant, Artist Recipient. (as part of Puro Chingón Collective)
2012
Downtown Austin Alliance, Art and Placemaking Grant, Artist Recipient. (as part of Puro Chingon Collective)
Mexican American Cultural Center Award of Excellence, Service in the Latino Cultural Arts, November 29.
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Touring Show, Art, "31K Portraits for Peace," Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 24.
2011
Austin Critic’s Table Awards Nomination, Visual Art Category: Museum Exhibition, "Young Latino Artists 15: Consensus of Taste," Mexic-Arte Museum, Claudia Zapata, curator, May 27
2009
The University of Texas at Austin Graduate Student Travel Grant
SERVICE
2025
Editorial Board Member, US Latinx Art Forum
Nominator, Maestro Dobel Latinx Art Prize.” El Museo del Barrio and Maestro Dobel Tequila, New York, NY
Nominator, Pérez Prize, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
Nominator, Catalyst for Change Fellowship, The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). San Antonio, TX
Member, Advisory Committee: Ofelia Esparza, Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artist, CowParade San Antonio 2025, CHRISTUS Children’s Foundation & CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Friends Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Juror, Women & Their Work’s Solo Exhibition Series, Austin, TX
Juror, MCAD–McKnight and Jerome Foundation Fellowships, Minneapolis, MN
Panelist, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2024-2025
Council Member, Meadows 2050 Council, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Nominator, Trellis Art Fund, New York, NY
Review Panelist, Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Peer Reviewer, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Washington, D.C.
2024
Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, San Antonio, TX
Juror, Big Medium East Austin Studio Tour: Video Art Screening, Austin, TX
Nominator, Center for Art Research and Alliances, New York, NY
Peer Reviewer, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
Juror, The Print Center 99th ANNUAL International Competition, Philadelphia, PA
Juror (Music Videos), Cine Las Americas, Austin, TX
Selection Panelist, Austin Art in Public Places, Austin,TX.
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Arts Art Works Panel, Washington, D.C.
2023-current
Advisory Board Member, Latine Opera Alliance, Austin, TX
Board Member, Aguas Multimedia, Dilley, TX
2018, 2023
Peer Review Panelist, National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) Fund for the Arts, San Antonio, TX
2021-2025
Nominator, US Latinx Art Forum: Latinx Artist Fellowship
2022
Juror, Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Foundation’s Engagement Program for International Curators (EPIC)
advisory Board member, panorama: Journal of the association of historians of american art
2021-2022
Panelist, Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Online.
2020-2022
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Task Force Member, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2020-2021
Mentor, Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums and DC Emerging Museum Professionals Mentorship program, Washington, D.C.
2019
Juror, The Contemporary Print, PrintAustin 2020, Austin, TX
Interviewer for Featured Artist Rosalie Lopez, Five X FIVE, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Video Game Reviewer, SAAM Arcade 2019, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Juror, Now | Contemporary 2019, Art Room, Fort Worth, TX
2018
Arts Funding Panelist, Department of Arts & Culture, City of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Committee Member, McNay Museum Artist Committee, San Antonio, TX
Mentor, New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist, San Antonio, TX
Juror, Jolt Texas Residence Poster Contest, Austin, TX
Arts Consultant, City of San Antonio-District 3 My Home My History Art Exhibition, San Antonio, TX
Member, Creative Women's Alliance, San Antonio, TX
2017
Member, Creative Women's Alliance, San Antonio, TX
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Arts Art Works Panel, Washington, D.C.
2016
Invited Participant, In Pursuit of the Creative Life: The Future of the Arts and Creativity in America, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC, November 18.
Vice President, RASC/a Art History Graduate Student Association, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
President, Meadows Graduate Student Council, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Selection Panelist, Austin Art in Public Places, Austin, TX
Co-coordinator, RASC/a Graduate Student Conference, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Juror, Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
Advisory Board, Nat. Brut, Dallas, TX
2015
President, Meadows Graduate Student Council, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Arts Art Works Panel, Washington, D.C.
Juror, Hecho en Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
Nominating Curator, By-Any-All: 100 Curators/100 Artists, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2014
Member, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Advisory Working Group, San Antonio, TX
Planning Committee, Huevos Rancheros Gala, San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Arts Art Works Panel, Washington, D.C.
2013
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Visual Arts Art Works Panel, Washington, D.C.
Planning Committee, Huevos Rancheros Gala, San Anto Cultural Arts, San Antonio, TX
Film Programming Committee and Film Note Writer, Polari Film Festival (LGBTQIA international, national, and regional films), Austin, TX
2012
Guest film curator, Free and Queer Cinema Program, The North Door, Austin, TX, December 18.
Hiring Committee, Austin Parks and Recreation, Austin, TX, December 4 2012.
Artist Selection Committee, Serie Print Project XX, Artist Residency program, Austin, TX, October 13.
Nominating and Selection Committee, Austin Visual Arts Awards, Austin, TX
Translator, QueerBomb: LGBTQIA rally and procession, Austin, TX
Selection Committee Member, WEST: West Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
2010
Advisory Committee Member, VSA Texas State Organization on Arts and Disability, Austin, TX
Nominating and Selection Committee, Austin Visual Arts Awards, Austin, TX
Grant Evaluator, Texas Commission for the Arts, Austin, TX
2003-2005
Student Advisory Committee, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
National Endowment for the Arts. In Pursuit of the Creative Life: The Future of Arts + Creativity. Convening participants take part in a conversation following panel discussions. Photo courtesy of Yassine El Mansouri, 2016.