DaWire

Carla Acevedo – Publisher/Editor

Carla Acevedo-Yates is an independent arts writer and curator based in Puerto Rico. She received a B.A. in Literature and Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University and worked as Editorial Assistant for Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas published by the Americas Society. She has contributed articles to Arte al Día, Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism and the Puerto Rico Daily Sun. She is Contributing Editor for ARTPULSE Magazine and Managing Editor for the online arts magazine DaWire.com. As an independent curator, she has curated exhibitions in alternative art  spaces and site-specific projects in collaboration with private institutions such as Fist Art Foundation.

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Diana McClure - Contributing Writer

Ms. McClure is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, mixed media, writing and web based projects. In 2009 she was a member of the Curatorial Committee for PhotoMiami, the international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video & new media, and wrote the Living Arts column for the NewYorkTimes.com/LOCAL as part of a New York Times experimental project on hyperlocal and collaborative journalism. Diana has also written for Art Asia Pacific and The Studio Museum in Harlem magazine among others. She has received grants/fellowships from The New School for Social Research and The Mellon Foundation. Her photographic work has appeared in The Philadelphia African American Museum, The Los Angeles Times, Judy Chicago’s Envisioning the Future project, NYMAG.com, and in galleries across the United States. From 2007 – 2009 she founded and curated Cultureserve.net, a global art + culture news website that was a 2008 Finalist for a Creative Capital l Warhol Foundation – Arts Writers Grant. Diana holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA from The New School, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Alejandro Sordo Guzmán - Contributing Writer

Alejandro holds a Bachelors in International Relations from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and is currently pursuing a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm in Mexico.  He wrote a thesis on international law and environmental issues, with a case study on the Mesoamerican Reefsupported by the CONACYT Fund at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City. He participated as part of the Academic specialized staff in multidisciplinary education for Senior students at the TEC Santa Fe. He has collaborated with Luis Adelantado Gallery coordinating the Luis Adelantado Inaugural Exhibition, and with Upper Playground/Fifty 24 MX Gallery as a writer, curator and events organizer. He served as Executive Director of Fundación Viva por un México Unido (Fundación México Unido) and he participated as part of the Academic specialized staff in multidisciplinary education for Senior students at the TEC Santa Fe. He lives and works in Mexico. D.F.

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For editorial inquiries, please contact Carla Acevedo at: info@dawire.com