Christina Young (she/they) is a painter and arts worker whose creative practice weaves together visual artwork production, scholarly study, and public engagement. An incoming M.A., Public Humanities student, she holds a B.A. in Art Practice from UC Berkeley, where she developed her studio practice alongside studies in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Feminist Cultural Studies, and Post-colonial/Post-modernist theory. With a rich background working in Bay Area arts organizations including Headlands Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Oakland Museum of California, she is committed to engaging the arts as a vehicle for individual empowerment, cultural pluralism, and social justice.
At Brown, Christina will study aesthetics and methods of production at the intersection of queer and mixed ethnicity identities within art history and curatorial practice. In this program, she seeks to shape approaches to art history and public engagement that are deeply cross-disciplinary, with a justice focus that centers decolonial frameworks for research and presentation.