Join us on Saturday, July 26 for the second AWrI public lecture with scholar, educator and independent curator Marsha Pearce!
About Marsha Pearce
Marsha Pearce is a scholar, educator and independent curator from Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). She holds a BA in Visual Arts and a PhD in Cultural Studies. Dr. Pearce is a faculty member at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She is a recipient of a 2024 Global Professorship from the British Academy to support her research project titled “Trembling Abode: Reimagining the Museum as Home for Global Majority Artists.” Starting this fall, Dr. Pearce will undertake this research project, over the span of four years, in collaboration with The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.
She has worked as the senior editor and art writer for ARC Caribbean Art and Culture Magazine and is a consulting art editor for Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters Magazine. She has also served on the board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of T&T, and as a consultant for the Draft National Policy on Culture and the Arts of T&T. In 2024, she designed and taught a course on art writing for the inaugural Creative Residency Programme hosted by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Her research and critical writings about visual culture have been published in several art catalogues as well as academic journals and books. Her edited book Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean (2023) is an anthology that pairs paintings with short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. Her curatorial projects include a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery London and the British Council for the Americas IN Britain—Caribbean Edition curated online exhibition, and her work with the Pérez Art Museum Miami to co-curate the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art. During the pandemic, she led a Caribbean artist conversation series titled Quarantine and Art.
Image by Alexander Elias and courtesy of Marsha Pearce.