Educator with passion for social justice and youth activism.
Media artist & image activist exploring issues of race, sexuality, identity, and history.
EDUCATION
MA, Arts Politics | New York University Tisch School of the Arts | 2012
BA, Africana Studies & Art | Vassar College | 2008
EXPERIENCE: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Brooklyn Museum | Teen Programs Manager | NYC | 2017 – 2022
Brooklyn Museum | Astor Teen Programs Coordinator/ Senior Museum Educator | NYC | 2015 – 2017
Educational Video Center | New Media Arts Apprenticeship Coordinator & Instructor | NYC | 2013 – 2015
BRIC Arts Media Teaching Artist | NYC | 2013 – 2015
Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) Teaching Artist | NYC | 2012 – 2015
Museum of the Moving Image Educator | NYC | 2012 – 2015
Deep Dish Waves of Change Web Design Instructor | NYC | 2014
PS9 Pre-K Student Teacher | NYC | 2011-2012
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Student Docent | Poughkeepsie, NY | 2005-2008
EXPERIENCE: ARTS ADMINISTRATION
Brooklyn Museum | Acting Director of Education | NYC | 2021 – present
NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Art & Public Policy Interim Administrative Director | NYC | 2012-2013
Cicognani Kalla Architects | Office Manager | NYC | 2009 – 2011
Cicognani Kalla Architects | Administrative Assistant | NYC | 2008
I-20 Gallery | Intern | NYC | 2007
Lew Allen Contemporary Gallery | Intern | Santa Fe, NM | 2006
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
SHIFT Collective, an anti-racist, feminist cultural workers collective | most active 2016 – 2019
Audre Lorde Project SafeOUTside the System Collective member | most active 2016 – 2018
Brooklyn Movement Center Police Accountability member | most active 2016 – 2017
QTBIPOC in community, building | forever
CURATOR / JUROR
Reviewer | #Your2020Portrait Challenge, Instagram | 2020
Reviewer | BlackStar Film Festival Youth Program Committee | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Curator | Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, Brooklyn Museum | 2019
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS
Art & Public Policy, NYU Global Institute Critical Collaborations Fellowship | 2016-2018
Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship | 2016
Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship | 2015
Black Public Media Nonso Christian Ugbode Fellowship | 2014-2015
Art & Public Policy Summer Fellowship | 2012
Vassar College Africana Studies Research & Travel Grant | 2008
LECTURES + PANELS + WORKSHOPS
2022
Keynote | Intrepid Museum Mentorship Day | *virtual*, NYC | 2022
Panelist | NYU, Book launch, Black Thought: A Theory of Articulation, Dr. Victor Peterson II | NYC | 2022
Facilitator | Gender & Sexuality Alliance Summit, Consistency with LGBTQ+ Advocacy: It’s Not A One-Time Thing! | co-presented with youth leaders | *virtual*, NYC | 2022
2021
Facilitator | Gender & Sexuality Alliance Summit, Dear Teachers: It’s Okay to Ask Us our Pronouns | co-presented with youth leaders | *virtual*, NYC | 2021
2020
Facilitator | Allied Media Conference, Queering Public Space: Youth-Driven Strategies for Systemic Change | co-presented with youth leaders | *virtual*, Detroit, MI | 2020
Panelist | NYCMER, Engaging LGBTQ+ Communities in Relevant and Sustainable Ways | *virtual*, NYC | 2020
Facilitator | Gender & Sexuality Alliance Summit, Instructions for a Freedom: Supporting Inclusive Classrooms and Creative Community Spaces | co-presented with youth leaders | NYC | 2020
2019
Panelist | ASTC, To Infinity and Beyond! Enduring Connections with Youth Along the Career Ladder | Toronto, Canada | 2019
Facilitator | SWaG Instructional Equity Conference | Nobody Promised You Tomorrow, Brooklyn Museum’s Contemporary Art Exhibition on LGBTQ+ Past and Future | co-presented with youth leaders | NYC | 2019
Panelist | World Pride Human Rights Conference, Brooklyn Museum: Curators and Artists discuss the intersection of revolt, heritage, care, and desire | NYC | 2019
2018
Panelist + Roundtable | Feminist Pedagogy: Museums, Memory Sites, Practices of Remembrance, Invited panelist for Making the Future | Istanbul, Turkey | 2018
Roundtable | NYU Global Institute, Critical Collaborations Colloquium | Florence, Italy | 2018
Roundtable | NYU Global Institute, Critical Collaborations Colloquium | Sydney, Australia | 2018
Facilitator | SWaG Instructional Equity Conference, Brooklyn Museum: Creating Space by and for LGBTQ+ Teens of Color | co-presented with youth leaders | NYC | 2018
Facilitator | Building Brave Spaces, Queering institutional space: Centering youth voices in LGBTQIA+ teen programming | co-presented with youth leaders | Boston, MA | 2018
2017
Roundtable | Clark Art Institute, What We May Be museum educators roundtable | Williamstown, MA | 2017
Panelist | NYCMER, Being Explicit: Creating + Maintaining LGBTQ Art Spaces for Teens | NYC | 2017
Panelist | Brooklyn Museum, Black Queer Brooklyn on Film artist panel | NYC | 2017
Moderator | Brooklyn Museum, Brown Girls film screening & artist panel | NYC | 2017
2016
Roundtable | ICA Boston, Teen Convening| co-presented with youth leaders | Boston, MA | 2016
2015
Panelist | Black Public Media, YouTube Space, Evoking the Mulatto launch | NYC | 2015
Panelist | Museum Computer Network, Lo(o)se Your Structure: Flexibility in Teen Programming | Minneapolis, MN | 2015
2014
Panelist | Digital Media and Learning Conference, Youth Remix History for Change | co-presented with youth leaders| Boston, MA | 2014
Panelist | BRIC TV BK LIVE, Juneteenth segment | Brooklyn, NY | 2014
2013
Panelist | Grey Art Gallery, Mediating Perceptions: The Radical Practice of Iterative Consciousness | NYC | 2013
2012
Lecturer | NYU Invited Lecturer, Performance Matters with Karen Finley | NYC | 2012
Lecturer | NYU Invited Lecturer, Circulatory Systems with Pato Hebert | NYC | 2012
Facilitator | UnionDocs, Evoking the Mulatto screening panel | NYC | 2012
Panelist | FREECANDY & FiveMyles, Crown Heights Film Festival, Evoking the Mulatto screening panel | NYC | 2012
EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS
2019
Co-Curator, Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall | Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2017
Artist, Black Queer Brooklyn on Film | Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Artist, Traces of You, Brooklyn Museum Staff Exhibition | Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2016
Artist, Re-Work/Re-Frame, Black Artstory: Some Assembly Required film night | Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, Pratt Film Center, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Artist, Evoking the Mulatto launch | YouTube Space NY, NYC
Artist, Evoking the Mulatto: Exploring Black Mixed Identity in the 21st Century online screening and exhibition | virtual
2014
Artist, Expanded Practice | BRIC Arts Media, NYC
2012
Artist, Evoking the Mulatto Screening Panel | UnionDocs, NYC
Artist, Crown Heights Film Festival, Evoking the Mulatto | FREECANDY & FiveMyles, NYC
Digital content producer, smArtAction: ¡A estudiar y a luchar! University of Puerto Rico Student movement exhibition | NYC & virtual
SELECTED EVENT PRODUCTION
2018-22
Co-creator, Teen Nights & other youth-led programming @ Brooklyn Museum
2017
Co-creator, sin título, a queer trans people of color dance party
Contributor, Bed-Stuy Pride, Audre Lorde Project
Co-creator, Teen Nights & other youth-led programming @ Brooklyn Museum
2016
Co-creator, Politics of Protection: Building Safety Outside the System, Laundromat Project
Contributor, Bed-Stuy Pride, Audre Lorde Project
Co-creator, Teen Nights & other youth-led programming @ Brooklyn Museum
2015
Co-creator, Teen Nights & other youth-led programming @ Brooklyn Museum
FREELANCE + CREATIVE HIRE
2012 – present
graphic designer, photographer, videographer & editor
available for hire: professional portraits, event photography and videography, video editing, graphic design
Clients include:
Independent artists and educators, highlighting Black women, femmes, and QTBIPOC
Working Families Party
MAZE Sexual Health
Oxfam Design for Change
The Fashion Spot
Samples/references available upon request
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Harris, L.C. (2021). Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall. Fresno, CA: The Press at California State University, Fresno.
Harris, L.C. (2019). Being Explicit: Creating Space by and for LGBTQ+ Youth of Color, What we may be: art museums and the implications of special programs. Williamstown, MA: Clark Art Institute
Akkent, Meral and S. Nehir Kovar, ed. (2019). Feminist Pedagogy: Museums, Memory Sites, Practices of Remembrance. Istanbul, Turkey: İstanbul Kadın Müzesi
Aleman, B., Ehrlich, C.E., Harris, L.C. (2018). Looking back and forward: Reflections on starting LGBTQ+ teen programming at the Brooklyn Museum (2011-2018). Viewfinder: Reflecting on Museum Education, 6.
Harris, L.C. (2016). Teacher resource packet. Agitprop! Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum.
A Blade of Grass, Blogger, NYC, Oct 2012
VitaminW, Op-Ed, The Color of Colorblind, 2012
Vitrine: A Printed Museum, Contributor, NYC, 2012
Performa Magazine, Art Writer, NYC, 2011
Whitehot Magazine, Art Writer, NYC, Fall 2008
SF New Mexican Newspaper, Staff Writer, 2003-2004
SELECTED PRESS
2020
Teen Vogue | Teen Art Councils Are Pushing for Change in Prestigious Museums
2019
Teen Vogue | Brooklyn Museum’s Nobody Promised You Tomorrow exhibition celebrates the future of Stonewall’s legacy
WNYC All of It | ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall’
Them | How Artists Born After 1969 Are Honoring (And Criticizing) Stonewall’s Legacy
Untitled Art Podcast | Episode 12: Pride
NY Times | Stonewall: When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore
Art in America | “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall”
i-D | this exhibit examines how a new generation of artists remember stonewall
Hyperallergic | Best of 2019: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
2017
Art in America | Trusting the Camera: Black Queer Brooklyn on Film
Time Out New York | Black Queer Brooklyn on Film
2016
The Atlantic | ‘Mulatto: It’s not a cool word’
Blavity | ‘Evoking the Mulatto’ series talks black mixed identity in the 21st century
Mixed Experience podcast with Heidi Durrow | Season 3, Episode 13
2015
NYTrend | Not Just Black & White: Race & Identity in the 21st Century
NPR On Point | ‘Evoking The Mulatto’ In Mixed-Race America
2014
Mixed Race Studies | Multiple entries (2012-2014)