Krista Caballero, Visions of Trauma and Transformation in the Environment

Krista Caballero is an interdisciplinary artist whose work unpacks cultural myths relating to the “American” West, technology, gendered land use, and ideas of the sublime. Using her After Katrina series as an example, Caballero will share how she strives for an integrated approach in her work where questions of mental, social and environmental ecology might activate imaginations, shift perceptions and reveal the connections between our vision of the environment and our understanding of society and self. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and in 2009 attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Caballero is currently the Associate Director of the Digital Cultures and Creativity Program at the University of Maryland in College Park.