Meet the QA Team
Tina Coyne
Editor/Founder
Tina Coyne is a working studio artist, sexuality scholar, and art educator from central Texas. Earning her BA in Studio Art from Texas State University, she went on to teach in the public school system before pursuing her MA in Sexuality Studies through San Francisco State University. Tina’s research approaches equitable representations in the arts, applying queer theory to question the myriad of ways in which sexuality, gender, race, class, (dis)ability and other political identity markers influence the individual, their mode of self-expression and the ways that institutions respond to or exclude such works. Locating the gaps in academia and the arts for sustaining critical analysis on towards queer and marginalized art productions, her thesis culminated in the founding of QA. Tina currently serves as editor for the publication and was selected as the 2020 Grant A. Larson Scholar & Pepper Schwartz Honorary Scholar, respectively.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera
Editor
Juan Carlos is an artist, designer and educator, passionate about food, lover of ephemeral objects, gradients and anything deemed as kitsch. He was born and raised in Cataño, the smallest town of Puerto Rico. Their practice aims to imagine alternative worlds created through, and by, the combination of graphic design, painting, and installations. These alternative worlds challenge preconceived ideas of time and memory as something linear by presenting them in non-linear temporalities where the past and the future are interwoven. The research that informs his work is the study of decoloniality, latin american philosophy, design theory and historical contexts from the Global South. Recently, Juan Carlos have been exploring family archives and memories lived, or created, as a queer kid in the Caribbean. Furthermore, he looks into my family’s archives, coastal towns' aesthetics, and my country’s vernacular written language as alternatives to the dominant modes of existing and creating. As an artist and educator their practice is shaped by diasporic experiences in the US, the understanding of the past as multiples and the future as collective.
Son Kit
Editor
Son Kit is a designer, artist, curator, and writer from Koreatown, Los Angeles, with a practice exploring non-binary diasporic personhood through installation, text, video, and computational experiences. They are a co-founder of Codify Art, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, and showcasing work by queer, trans, and women artists of color. Kit has organized exhibitions, workshops, and talks with the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Public Theater, and Pioneer Works, amongst other institutions, and has contributed writing to Net Art Anthology (Rhizome), Interjection Calendar 004 (Montez Press), and Smoke + Mold. They hold BAs in Visual Art and Literary Arts from Brown University and their MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Marcel Pardo Ariz
Editor
Marcel Pardo Ariza is a genderqueer Colombian visual artist, curator and art worker exploring the relationship of representation, intergenerational kinship and queerness through constructed photographs, site-specific installations and public programming. Ariza is the co-founder of Art Handlxrs* and their work is invested in creating long term interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities that are non-hierarchical, decentralized, and equitable. Ariza is the recipient of the 2020 Artadia San Francisco Award, Tosa Studio Award, Alternative Exposure award, and Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award. Ariza has worked in the civic engagement department at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure and is a current member of the Minnesota Street Studios. They have exhibited at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Berkeley Art Museum, SFMOMA, Southern Exposure, SOMArts, San José Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, among others.
Anaiis Cisco
Editor
Anaiis Cisco is a filmmaker and assistant professor of moving image production in film and media studies at Smith College. Cisco teaches digital video production courses as she develops media that explores the emotional and internal journeys of Black characters, confronting intimate moments of violence and trauma in diverse story worlds. She received a Masters of Fine Arts in cinema from San Francisco State University, where she was awarded a 2018 Princess Grace Award (Louis D. Srybnik Film Award) for her graduate thesis film, Drip Like Coffee. Her short films have screened at dozens of film festivals such as Outfest, NewFest, and Raindance, while also broadcasting on networks like REVOLT TV’s Short & Fresh and KQED’s Film School Shorts programs.