About the curator:   Tina Yapelli
Professor and Senior Curator at  the School of Art and Design, 
San Diego State University (SDSU)

Professor Yapelli joined SDSU in 1985 as Director of the University Art Gallery. She held that position through 2012, when she became Director of the SDSU Downtown Gallery in 2013. She later transitioned to Senior Curator for the School’s Gallery Program in mid-2017. In these roles she has originated 69 exhibitions of contemporary art by regional, national, and international artists. Several of the exhibitions were co-organized in cooperation with other galleries and museums, at which they also were presented. She has organized a variety of educational programs for the University and off-campus communities, including symposia, lecture series, gallery talks, and visiting artists’ residencies. 

Yapelli is a co-author of Chicano/a/x Printmaking: Making Prints and Making History 50 Years of Art Activism by Norma Iglesias Prieto, Tina Yapelli, Chantel Paul.