Marsha Pearce | Art Writing Incubator Public Lecture

​The second of three 2025 AWrI public lectures around the topic of "Your Voice is Critical" featuring Marsha Pearce. This lecture will be held on Saturday, July 26 from 12-1PM EST!

​​​Learn more about the Art Writing Incubator program here: https://burnaway.org/programs/2025-art-writing-incubator/

​About Marsha: Marsha Pearce is a scholar, educator and independent curator based in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies. Dr. Pearce teaches Visual Arts and serves as Deputy Dean of Distance and Outreach, at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. She has worked as the senior editor and art writer for ARC Caribbean Art and Culture Magazine and is a consulting art editor for Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters Magazine. She has also served on the board of the National Museum and Art Gallery of T&T, and as a consultant for the Draft National Policy on Culture and the Arts of T&T. In 2024, she designed and taught a course on art writing for the inaugural Creative Residency Programme hosted by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Her research and critical writings about visual culture have been published in several art catalogues as well as academic journals and books. Her edited book Black Light Void: Dark Visions of the Caribbean (2023) is an anthology that pairs paintings with short stories to explore sensations of place and identity. Her curatorial projects include a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery London and the British Council for the Americas IN Britain—Caribbean Edition curated online exhibition, and her work with the Peìrez Art Museum Miami to co-curate the group show The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art. During the pandemic, she led a Caribbean artist conversation series titled Quarantine and Art.