Curatorial Collective

Ethan Philbrick

Ethan Philbrick is a cellist, performance artist, and writer. He holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University and has taught performance theory and practice at Pratt Institute, Muhlenberg College, New York University, Wesleyan College, Yale University, and The New School. In addition to being part of the curatorial collective at Offerings, he is also currently performance curator-in-residence at The Poetry Project. In 2023, Philbrick published Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence with Fordham University Press. He is part of the musical-theatrical project DAYS and has presented solo and collaborative performances at The Kitchen, NYU Skirball, Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Grey Art Museum. His musical performances have been called “overwhelmingly beautiful” and “extremely strange” in The Nation and his writing has been characterized as “rich and fascinating” in e-flux.

Alessandra Gómez

Alessandra Gómez is a contemporary art curator working between performance and visual art. For over a decade, she has conceived and led ambitious artistic programs for cultural organizations and commissioned more than a hundred works across visual art, dance, theater, performance art, and music. She is the consultant Public Art Curator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Head Art Curator at the Wythe Hotel, where she directs the art programming and acquisitions. She is one of the curators behind Offerings, a performance series presented at St. Mary the Virgin Church in the heart of Times Square and a Curator for Sugar Sugar!, a large-scale outdoor summer performance series in Domino Square. Her independent curatorial and advisory work includes collaborations with Nike, Columbia University, the Center for Performance Research, Knockdown Center, Queens Museum, Pratt Institute, and Perelman Performing Arts Center. She holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University.

Leonor Mendes

Leonor Mendes is a performance artist from Portugal, based in Lisbon and New York. She holds a masters in Performance Studies from New York University (2023) and completed Forum Dança's Advanced Creation Program in Performing Arts 5 in Lisbon (2021). As a performer she has worked with artists such as João Fiadeiro, Joan Jonas, Claudia Castellucci and Henrique Furtado Vieira. Her creations and research projects on dance and improvisation have been presented in Portugal, Brazil and the US. She was the Programs Associate at Movement Research, New York (2024) and part of the curatorial collective of Offerings. She is a Fulbright scholar (2022) and recipient of the Performance Studies Award from the Dept. of Performance Studies, New York University (2023).

Ro Miller

Ro Miller is a multi-media scent artist, writer, and organizer. They currently run Naked Ghosts, a fragrance studio in the West Village, and served as the assistant director of Olfactory Art Keller, a small commercial art gallery in Downtown Manhattan that focuses on multisensory art and performances incorporating fragrance. In addition to being a part of the curatorial collective at Offerings, they have helped organize olfactory performances and exhibitions throughout New York City. Their writing has been published in Aromatica Poetica and Viscose Journal.

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