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Curator Laura Augusta, PhD, supervises all aspects of exhibition development, creation, and production at the Rubin Center. Dr. Augusta worked between Houston and Guatemala City from 2014-2020: her writing about contemporary art in Guatemala City was awarded The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She completed the Core Fellowship at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2016-2018), and was an inaugural Mellon Arts + Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration in 2021. As an independent curator, she has curated more than 20 exhibitions at museums, university galleries, and artist-run spaces across the U.S. and Central America; her writing about art has been published in artist monographs, edited volumes, journals, exhibition catalogs, and online. Dr. Augusta currently works with the Archives of American Art’s Oral History Project to collect the art histories of Latinx artist elders and is a developmental editor and program consultant for American Art Journal’s program toward equity in academic publishing. She completed her MA and PhD in Art History at The University of Texas at Austin (2005, 2012) and her BA in Studio Art and English at Georgia College & State University (2003).