Momus Arts Journalism Residency

Catherine G. Wagley is a journalist, critic, and editor based in Los Angeles. She is co-editor at Momus and her book She Wanted Adventure is forthcoming from FSG.

Elisa Wouk Almino is a writer, editor, and literary translator based in Los Angeles. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Image, the style and culture magazine at the Los Angeles Times. She is the editor of Emily Mason: Unknown to Possibility, publishing with Rizzoli this fall.

Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, W Magazine, and the Financial Times, among other publications. She also serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine and a contributing editor to the Art Newspaper, where she writes a monthly column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and WIRED. Her writing and reporting focuses on power and money in the art world, how change happens, and who is leading it.

Catherine Hickley is a Berlin-based arts journalist. She is the Museums & Heritage editor of The Art Newspaper and a regular contributor to the arts pages of the New York Times. She is the author of The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler’s Dealer and His Secret Legacy, published in English by Thames & Hudson and in German by Czernin Verlag. A graduate in French and German from London University, she held  a variety of roles at Bloomberg News between 1997 and 2013, including Berlin bureau chief and the editor responsible for European government and political news.

Danielle Amir Jackson is a Memphis-born writer and since 2021, the editor-in-chief of the Oxford American, a quarterly literary and culture magazine that explores the complexity and vitality of the American South. During her tenure, the magazine has been a finalist for awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors and the James Beard Foundation, and has received the Whiting Foundation’s Literary Magazine Prize. Her writing on books, music, and film has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bookforum, the Criterion Collection, and more. She is at work on her first book, about women in the blues, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 

Ossie Michelin is a Labrador Inuk journalist, filmmaker, and storyteller from the community of North West River, NL. Son of a trapper and missionary nurse from Ontario, Ossie grew up in the country, spending weeks with his family in tents and cabins across Central Labrador. Ossie focuses on sharing stories about the Indigenous world and the North with a capital N. After graduating from Concordia University’s Journalism Program, Ossie went on to work with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News covering Indigenous news all across Northern and Eastern Canada. Since leaving APTN, Ossie has gone on to build a successful career as a freelance journalist and editor, working with Canadian Art; Inuit Art Quarterly; the Guardian; National Geographic; CBC Indigenous; and many more. In 2021 Ossie launched his first short film, Evan’s Drum, with the National Film Board of Canada and is currently working on his second documentary with the NFB.

Carolina A. Miranda is an independent culture writer based in Los Angeles writing about art, design, performance, books and digital life. Until early 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she produced in-depth reports on subjects such as the intersection of art and race, how communities are rethinking the nature of monuments, and how architecture is shifting to accommodate a denser L.A. Prior to joining the Times, she was an independent magazine writer and radio reporter producing stories for Time, ARTnews, Architect, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She has been a regular commentator for KCRW and has written for the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Miranda is a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism. She also served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the first newsroom union in the Times’ nearly 140 years in existence.

Niela Orr is a writer and editor. Her criticism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The London Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among other places.

Angella d’Avignon is a writer and consultant based in Los Angeles. She regularly contributes to numerous publications, including Dwell, Hyperallergic, New York Review of Architecture, The Art Newspaper, as well as various anthologies and curatorial monographs. A finalist for the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award in 2022, an ArtTable Fellow and Warhol Foundation finalist in 2023, she is currently researching and writing a book about ghost towns, memory, and abandoned places in the US West. She also works as a reporter, specifically focused on arts-related dissent, museum management including land use, and protests related to Palestinian liberation and labor rights. D’Avignon received her MFA in Art Writing & Criticism from the School of Visual Arts in New York. 

Dr. Tina Barouti is a Los Angeles-based art historian and part-time faculty member at SAIC’s Art History, Theory, and Criticism department. In 2022, she earned her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her award-winning dissertation titled “A Critical Moroccan Chronology: The National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan Since 1946” was supported by a Fulbright US Student Fellowship. Most recently she was a Brooks International Fellow at Tate Modern’s curatorial department and a resident at the Delfina Foundation. She has been invited to present her original research at Harvard University, Brandeis University, NYU-Abu Dhabi, and SOAS University of London. Her research interests include colonialism, decolonization movements, fine arts pedagogy, art in times of conflict, and modern art outside of the Euro-American canon. Dr. Barouti is currently studying interior architecture and working on her first academic book project.

Clarissa Brooks, based in Philadelphia, PA, has written for various publications on a variety of topics from pop culture profiles to investigative reporting on the deaths of black women and femmes. Following Toni Cade Bambara’s call to build a legacy of cultural work along with the movement journalism ethics of radical Black journalists before her, Clarissa seeks to explore the depths of Black cultural production to move marginalized people towards liberation. Brooks has had words appear in publications including New York Magazine and NPR. Brooks is a 2018 graduate of Spelman College, a child of Southern Black Movement work and a proud Afro-Carolinian. She serves as Editor in Chief at The Forge Organizing.

Siobhan Burke is a freelance writer living in New York City. Since 2013 she has been a dance critic for the New York Times and a contributing writer for Dance Magazine. She has written for Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, Harper’s Bazaar, Open Space, Untapped, The Village Voice, and other publications. She was a 2013 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow and received a 2018 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. A former professional dancer, Siobhan grew up training in traditional Irish dance in Hartford, CT, and County Kerry, Ireland, and later shifted her focus to contemporary dance. She performed with the North American touring company of Riverdance and with artists including RoseAnne Spradlin, Jillian Sweeney, Rebecca Warner, and Narcissister. She appeared in the work of Yvonne Rainer as part of David Michalek’s 2017 film installation Slow Dancing/Trio A. She teaches at Barnard College.

Emma Cohen is a writer and dancer from Chicago.

Natalie Hegert is a writer, curator, and the arts editor at Southwest Contemporary. She is currently based between Lubbock, Texas and Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is a co-founder and director of the artist-run exhibition space CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock. Her writing has appeared in Southwest Contemporary, Glasstire, Elephant Magazine, Artsy, ArtSlant, THE SEEN, Huffington Post, and ArtCritical, and she has written essays, reviews and op-eds for Papersafe Magazine, Dazed, Brooklyn Rail, Rhizomes, Photography and Culture, various exhibition catalogues, artist books, and other publications. She holds an MA in Art History and Theory from Hunter College, New York.

Faheem Faraji Hemboum is a journalist, writer, and currently a trainee at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin. He works at the intersection of Black and African Studies, and has given workshops and lectures about colonial history, anti-racism, and walking tours through Berlin’s African Quarter. His work has been featured in academic as well as civil society spaces. 

Ozioma Nwabuikwu is a Nigerian writer and creative passionate about community, culture and profound music. She recognizes that opinions may differ but still thinks most Glee covers are better than the originals. She is captivated by art and all its expressions as a means of understanding oneself and the world. Ozioma is also a communications professional with 4 years of experience in marketing and PR. Her work has been featured in AMAKA, NEXT Magazine, RANGE Magazine, and NUVO Magazine. Ozioma hopes her work will serve as a thoughtful reprieve and a mirror for those willing to join her. 

Mariado Martínez Pérez is a freelance bilingual, arts and culture journalist from Spain. She holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting and a MA in Bilingual Journalism with a concentration in Arts & Culture from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Currently based in New York, her reporting covers cultural issues, mainly through writing and audio, from slightly more mainstream influence as well as unique, individual stories under the concept of finding and making culture accessible to all audiences and communities.

Adele D’Souza is a writer, editor, and researcher interested in exploring alternative modes of art writing and publishing. She graduated with a Master of Publishing and Communications from the University of Melbourne in 2022. Currently, she works as a Publishing Assistant at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, where her writing has been featured in NGV’s Triennial 2023 exhibition catalogue. Adele is also the founder and curator of counterpose archives, a resource-building project aimed at challenging the cultural hegemony in art publishing. Her practice seeks to decentralize the prevailing narratives that inform the arts, fostering new perspectives and critically reimagining the ways we think and write about art. 

Arushi Vats is a curator and writer pursuing a PhD in History of Art at University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the Momus / Eyebeam Critical Writing Fellowship 2021 and the Art Scribes Award 2021. She was a member of the curatorial panel for Kochi Muziris Students’ Biennale 2022. She serves as Associate Editor for Fiction at Alternative South Asia Photography Connect, and is a member of the editorial panel for Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture.

Pramodha Weerasekera is an art writer and curator currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She writes regularly about feminist artistic practices and occasionally about art book publishing from South Asia. Her writing has appeared in e-flux, Art Review, Hyperallergic, BOMB, and several exhibition publications.

Jenny Wu is a New York-based art and literary critic and the US associate editor of ArtReview. She teaches at Brooklyn College CUNY, and her criticism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BOMB, e-flux, and Momus.