KARA JEFTS
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES


2015
  • “Expo Chicago” on caa.reviews the online review journal of the College Art Association, forthcoming in July, 2015 

2014
  • “A City to Wear” in A City to Wear: A Survey of Contemporary Chicago Paintings, 40 page full color exhibition catalog, The Research House for Asian Art, September, 2014
  • “Reigning in Revenge Porn,” in F Newsmagazine: A Student Journal of Art, Culture and Politics, print edition, April, 2014.
  • “A Call to Collaboration,” in F Newsmagazine: A Student Journal of Art, Culture and Politics, print edition, February, 2014

2013
  • “Art For a Future Utopia,” in F Newsmagazine: A Student Journal of Arts, Culture and Politics, print edition, November, 2013
  • “50 Years of Ebony Fashion,” on Art Nerd Chicago, art-nerd.com/chicago, August 16, 2013
  • Hypochondria, by Caitlin Foley, THE eNth DEGREE, MFA 2013 Exhibition Catalog, Syracuse University Art Galleries, April, 2013

2012
  • Co-author, “A Display of Tolerance: Partnering with Multicultural Groups to Mount a Juried Art Exhibition,” in College & Research Libraries News, Chicago, IL, Vol. 73, 2012

2011 
  • Editor, Bulls Eye: New Photographs by Martin Benjamin, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, March, 2011, 28 pages, full color

2010
  • "Courier," on printeresting.org, December 2, 2010    

2009
  • Co-author, “Raising LGBTQ Awareness Through Art,” in commUNITY: The Monthly News Journal of the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council, Inc., Albany, NY, May, 2009

PRESENTATIONS / LECTURES


2015
  • “Dance of Death: Mavo Artists and the Posture of Play in Modern Tokyo,” at the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism Graduate Thesis Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 30, 2015
  • “Mavo, Moga, and the Politics of the Female Body in Modern Japan,” at the 13th Annual University at Albany EGSO Graduate Student Conference, SUNY Albany, March 28, 2015
  • “Dance of Death: Mavo, Moga, and the Politicized Female Body in Modern Japan,” at the Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference, Athens, GA; January 31, 2015

2013
  • “Engaging Your Audience through Online Technologies,” at Museums in Conversation, Museum Association of New York Annual Conference, Syracuse, NY; April 14, 2013

2012
  • “Fox Kuzunoha in Edo Japan: A Closer Look at the Child-Separation Scene from the play A Courtly Mirror of Ashiya Doman,” at The Charles Proteus Steinmetz Symposium, Union College, Schenectady, NY, May 11, 2012

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