July 18, 2018- Maria Elena Buszek, Ph.D., associate professor of Art History at the University of Colorado Denver spoke at the International Center for Photography (ICP) launch of Dismantling the Gaze, a series which considers looking, power, and visual culture in the #MeToo moment.

Buszek shared hundreds of years of visual culture in one brief presentation that concisely illustrates the gendered power structures deeply embedded in cultural production to a standing room only crowd in New York City.

At CU Denver, Buszek teaches  modern and contemporary art in the Visual Arts Department.  Her recent publications include the books Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture (Duke University Press Books, 2006) and Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke, 2011). She has also contributed writing to numerous international exhibition catalogues and scholarly journals: most recently, essays in Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and the Irrepressible Drive Toward Divinity and Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, and Andrea Bowers. Buszek has also been a regular contributor to the popular feminist magazine BUST since 1999. Her current book project, Art of Noise, explores the ties between contemporary activist art and popular music.