Finding our Way: Feminist Approaches to Art and Work

These teaching artists will speak about their individual journeys as artists, educators, and activists, telling stories about their experiences through an intersectional feminist lens. Speakers will discuss feminist frames of reference,  intersectional approaches to art making, unseen labor, the roles of community, collaborators, and mentors, and how to hold space for the contradictions in one’s work. This event gives students an opportunity to learn how this group of artists transformed from college students to creative professionals, as well as how the journey itself has helped define their practices.

In addition to directing and teaching in the design program in USF’s Department of Art + Architecture, Associate Professor Noopur Agarwal is a practicing visual communication designer. Her creative output often takes the form of “experiential graphic design” (physical and digital interactive environmental graphics) and includes brand identity concepts for events, organizations, exhibitions, publications, and advertisements.

Liat Berdugo is an artist and writer whose work investigates embodiment, labor, and militarization in relation to capitalism, technological utopianism, and the Middle East. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), and The Wrong Biennale (online), among others. She is one half of the art collective, Anxious to Make, and is the co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art series. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an associate professor of Art + Architecture and director of the User Experience / User Interface (UX/UI) minor at the University of San Francisco, where she has been teaching courses at the intersection of design, technology, and art for 11 years.

Jenifer K Wofford’s work is informed by hybridity, history, and calamity. Born/based in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Dubai, Malaysia and the Bay Area, Wofford studied at SFAI (BFA) and UC Berkeley (MFA). She has taught in the Fine Arts and Philippine Studies programs here at USF since 2007. She has presented her projects at venues including SFMOMA, the Asian Art Museum, YBCA, Southern Exposure, BAMPFA, Oakland Museum of California, and SJMA (Bay Area) among many others. Wofford is a 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Awardee and a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her awards include the 2023 YBCA 100 list, the Eureka Fellowship, and grants from Art Matters, SFAC, and CCI.

Co-sponsored with the Thacher Gallery