Screening: Paint Me a Road Out of Here

Founder and director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated and Academy-shortlisted producer, director, writer, and activist. Her media work focuses on strategic and sustainable social transformation, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS, and racial, reproductive, and environmental justice. Her films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums and schools; on PBS, HBO, Paramount+, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Free Speech TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. In 2023, Gund won the Gracie Award for Documentary Producer. Her films include Meanwhile, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison (Academy shortlist), Primera (HBO), AGGIE (Strand Releasing) and Born to Fly (Emmy nominated). She has served on several arts, media and justice nonprofit boards and has been a creative advisor on numerous documentary films. Gund is an alumnus of Brown University and the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has four children and lives in New York City.

Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, writer, pedagogue and cultural worker based in Philadelphia. As a visionary thought leader creating socially conscious music, film, performance, and visual art, her practice embodies resilience, care, and community-centeredness while working at the intersections of reproductive justice, Black feminist thought, and transformative change. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MoMA PS1, New York; the African American Museum of Philadelphia; Frieze LA and NY; Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Ohio; Brown University, Rhode Island; the Schomburg, New York; Yale Art Gallery, Connecticut; the National Museum of World Cultures Leiden, Netherlands; as well as a solo exhibition in 2023 at the Brooklyn Museum. Ms. Baxter is also an inaugural 2017 Right of Return fellow; a 2018 and 2019 Mural Arts Philadelphia Reimagining Reentry fellow; a 2019 Leeway Foundation Transformation awardee; a 2021 Ed Trust Justice fellow; a 2021 Frieze Impact Prize award winner; a 2022 S.O.U.R.C.E Studio Corrina Mehiel Fellow; 2022 Art 4 Justice grantee partner; 2022 Pratt Forward fellow; 2022 Artist2Artist Art Matters Foundation grantee and grantor; 2023 Soros Justice fellow and a 2024 Anonymous Was a Woman awardee.

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-curating the exhibition How to Be a Guerrilla Girl opening at the GRI in November 2025.

Ashley Blakeney (she/her/hers) is a Los-Angeles based arts healing facilitator and cultural leader with more than a decade of experience working in arts organizations and education. As the executive director at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart since 2021, Blakeney helps artists and communities of color imagine new systems for a more equitable world. Working at the intersection of abolition and healing, Blakeney’s professional and personal focus centers on cultivating safe spaces for connection and creative expression. Blakeney holds certificates from the UCLArts and Healing Social Emotional Arts (SEA) program and the National Guild Community Arts Education Leadership Institute. She received her BA at the University of Southern California, with a focus on creative writing and photography.