Cocktails with a Curator: Creative Complaining

Zanna Gilbert is co-lead of the Latin American and Latinx Art History Initiative (LALAI). She is co-curator of Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s and How to Be a Guerrilla Girl (Getty Research Institute, 2025–6). She is co-editor of the recent publication Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City (2025).

Kristin Juarez, PhD, is senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute where she supports the African American Art History Initiative as well as academic outreach. Her research engages histories of collaboration and multidisciplinary experimentation at the intersection of visual art, performance, and the moving image. Juarez was co-curator for the exhibitions Blondell Cummings: Dance as Moving Pictures (2021), and since 2020, she has curated the ongoing film program Dancers on Film. In 2025, she launched an ongoing curriculum workshop series aimed at connecting higher ed faculty with teaching resources at the GRI. She is currently working on a collaborative research project on the artist, curator, and scholar Dr. Samella Lewis, as well as co-curator of the exhibition How to Be a Guerrilla Girl currently on view at the Getty Center.