Anisa Tavangar is a PhD student in the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University where she studies the enduring legacies of colonial approaches, primitivism, and ethnography. She aims to uncover new strategies for ideological and physical presentation of African art with a priority on object stewardship and institutional adaptability. Anisa works as a writer and curator at For Freedoms, an artist-led organization that seeks to bring the voices of artists into public discourse. Through For Freedoms, she has led and curated exhibitions, programs, and initiatives with partners across the country highlighting mass incarceration, the Indigenous Land Back Movement, the values of prison abolition, supporting emerging artists, and more. She is a co-founder of the Guggenheim Greenhaus, a futurist thinking initiative out of the Guggenheim Museum and has presented on the capacity of beauty as a conduit for justice through the Slow Factory Foundation, Bend Design, and the Association for Baha’i Studies.
