Justin (MA 2024) came to the folklore program with a background in contemporary art, having held a range of positions at various museums and art spaces in the Bay Area and New York, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Most recently he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. His undergraduate study was at the now-defunct Corcoran College of Art and Design, and he maintains an art practice, though it now mostly revolves around projects connected to friends and family. He is interested in aspects of overlap and divergence between the worlds of contemporary art and the study of folklore. His research areas also include flea markets, forms of kinship and solidarity, radical traditions, grief, and Black study. He served as the UCB Folklore Archivist for the 21-22 academic year.
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