Liz Rae Heise-Glass is a PhD student with a focus on contemporary art of the US. She holds a BA in American Studies from Scripps College and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts. She has held curatorial positions with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and a curatorial residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, Alberta). Alongside her curatorial work, Liz has edited publications, catalogues, and digital projects including the online arts magazine Art Practical, a journal of curatorial studies, The Exhibitionist, and several volumes of the Walker’s Living Collections Catalogue series. Her research interests include performance-based practices, time-based media, artists working with music and sound, feminist art, exhibition histories, and artists’ books, ephemera, and archives.