Contributors

Lindsay Preston Zappas

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Lindsay Preston Zappas is an L.A.-based artist, writer, and founder and editor-in-chief of Carla. She is an arts correspondent for KCRW. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013.

Erin F. O'Leary

Managing Editor

Erin F. O’Leary is a writer, editor, and photographer from the Midwest and raised in Maine. A graduate of Bard College, she has lived in Los Angeles since 2018, where she writes about photography and image culture.

Catherine Wagley

Contributing Editor

Catherine Wagley writes about art and visual culture in Los Angeles.

Allison Noelle Conner

Contributing Editor

Allison Noelle Conner’s writing has appeared in Artsy, Art in America, Hyperallergic, East of Borneo, and elsewhere. Born in South Florida, she is based in Los Angeles.

Alitzah Oros

Editorial & Administrative Assistant

Alitzah Oros is an art historian currently based in Los Angeles.

Satoru Nihei

Graphic Designer

Satoru Nihei is a graphic designer. His work explores personal and emotional life experiences through typographic form and design. Nihei’s design work has been published internationally and included in national and international collections and biennales. Most recently, he was invited to judge the 2019 Print Regional Design Awards. Nihei received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011.

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández

Translator

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández is a historian, digital editor, and manages the wonderful bilingual team of Edita.us as they perform quality and culturally mindful editing, translation, and research in Spanish and English.

PJ Shahamat

Podcast Production Assistant

PJ Shahamat is the production assistant for the Carla Podcast and Carla Audiobook. PJ has worked on KCRW’s Greater LA, Left, Right & Center, and Bookworm. He is a graduate of California State University, Northridge, and NPR’s NextGen Program.

Donasia Tillery

Contributor

Donasia Tillery is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural worker whose work centers art as a mode of radical honesty, individual healing, and collective liberation. She earned her BA in Philosophy from Lehigh University and her MA in Africana Studies from New York University, and she is a recipient of MOZAIK Philanthropy’s Future Art Writers Award (2022). Her writing has been featured in Artillery, Curate LA, and Spinelli Kilcollin Journal.

Tina Barouti

Contributor

Tina Barouti, PhD is an art historian and curator from Los Angeles. She lectures at SAIC’s Art History, Theory, and Criticism department.

Isabella Miller

Contributor

Isabella Miller lives and works in Los Angeles.

Jessica Simmons-Reid

Contributor

Jessica Simmons-Reid (MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BA, Brown University) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree. She’s interested in the interstitial space between the language of abstraction and the abstraction of language, as well as the intermingling of poetry and politics. She has contributed essays and reviews to Carla and Artforum, among others.

Julie Weitz

Contributor

Julie Weitz is a Los Angeles-based video and performance artist. 

Melissa Lo

Contributor

Melissa Lo is a feminist historian of early modern science, medicine, and visual culture. She writes about the politics of art, cultures of images, and histories of contentious knowledge. Based in Los Angeles, she serves on the board of the Feminist Center for Creative Work.

Neyat Yohannes

Contributor

Rachel Elizabeth Jones

Contributor

Rachel Elizabeth Jones is an artist and writer in Los Angeles. She is a co-editor of Tele- and runs the art space Flower Head from her garage. She has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books and The New Inquiry, among other publications.

Rosa Tyhurst

Contributor

Rosa Tyhurst lives and works in the U.K. and is the curator of exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary. She has previously held positions at Spike Island, Bristol; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; KADIST, San Francisco; and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Her writing has been published in Art Monthly, Elephant, and Hyperallergic, as well as in artist publications.

Sampson Ohringer

Contributor

Sampson Ohringer is a Los Angeles-based writer, originally from Chicago. His research interests focus on global shipping and logistics networks as they intersect with other disciplines.

Vanessa Holyoak

Contributor

Vanessa Holyoak is an interdisciplinary writer and artist based in Los Angeles. Her art writing focuses on installation, sculpture, and image-based practices. She holds a dual MFA in Photography & Media and Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts and is a PhD candidate in Comparative Media and Culture at USC. Her criticism has appeared in art-agenda, BOMB, East of Borneo, and Hyperallergic, among other publications.

Yxta Maya Murray

Contributor

Yxta Maya Murray is a law professor and writer living in Los Angeles. She received a 2018 Art Writers Grant. Advice and Consent, her one-act play about the Christine Blasey Ford hearings, has just been published by LARB Books.