With a history of working between the U.S. and Central America, Laura August, PhD makes texts and exhibitions informed by (mis)translation, making relation, personal and political sanación, and close listening to the natural world; her work is structured by the forms and disruptions of conversation with artists and writers. Her writing about contemporary art in Guatemala City has been awarded The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and her essays, reviews, and interviews have been published in international magazines, exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, and monographs. August was a Core Critical Studies Fellow at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2016-2018) where she curated the exhibitions Una piedra y la lluvia (2017), Tell it to the Horses (2018), and In Case of Natural Disaster (2018). Her 2019-2020 exhibitions include citysinging (Lawndale, Houston, TX), To look at the sea is to become what one is (Radiator Arts, NYC), Stone’s Throw: Arte de sanación, arte de resistencia (The Anderson, Richmond, VA), and To Weave Blue: Poema al tejido, the first exhibition in the U.S. to center contemporary art and conceptual practice by Maya artists (University of Memphis, TN). In 2021, she was a Mellon Arts + Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. With painter Francesca Fuchs, she teaches a process, practice, and professional strategies class for artists in the Block program at the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She also works as an advisor and developmental editor for American Art Journal’s Toward Equity in Publishing program. In 2022, August became the inaugural Curator at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso. She is at work on a book of essays about contemporary visual art in Guatemala City since the democratic uprisings of 2015, and her weekly letter to visual artists can be found at Studio for Tomorrow.