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Jasa McKenzie is a curator and artist based in Southern California and Minneapolis, MN.She obtained her master's degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has worked in a wide variety of non-profit art spaces and museums. In her practice, she is driven by issues of identity, equality, and social justice. She upholds an art and artist-driven outlook on curating. Her drive is to give artists a voice, especially emerging and under-represented artists, women artists, and those practicing outside of major art centers. The vast majority of her art historical research focuses on a wide range of contemporary art such as digital and internet art, performing arts, and contemporary feminist art. She applies an interdisciplinary approach to curating, with a particular interest in blending music and sound art into hybrid visual projects. She is the recipient of the first-place proposal to the 2017 Apexart Franchise Exhibition Program. She is the co-host of 'SOTA: State of the Arts podcast.
Hailing from South Dakota, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and German from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she worked and cultivated her art practice.
