Curator of Waste Scenes: Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales

Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, is a writer, curator, art historian, and educator. McLaughlin is a Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries. She has shared her scholarly and curatorial work in conferences ranging from Performance Studies International, Calgary; to the Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Montreal and Toronto; the College Art Association, New York; and the Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present, Hong Kong, and she has published writing in Art Papers, ASAP/J, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Performa Magazine, Contact Quarterly, Performance Research, Women & Performance, and ASAP Journal, among others. She recently co-edited the multidisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press, 2024). McLaughlin’s curatorial work has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and the Dutch Consulate of New York, and she is currently undertaking a 2022 Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellowship for a forthcoming exhibition How do you throw a brick through a window….