Working between the U.S. and Central America, Laura August, PhD makes texts and exhibitions informed by border-breaking aesthetics and politics, (mis)translation, and close listening to landscapes; her work is structured by living alongside artists and poets, developing conversations through expansive periods of time. August’s writing has been published in international magazines, exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, and artist monographs. Her exhibitions have been seen at artist-run spaces, galleries, museums, public sites, and universities in the U.S. and Latin America. Her exhibition To Weave Blue (2020, Memphis, TN) was the first in the U.S. to center contemporary art by Maya artists; at RITM she will be expanding that work. www.lauraagosto.com