Jacqueline Witkowski is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at UBC. She specializes in the intersections between aesthetics and politics as conveyed through the modern and contemporary practices of textile and fiber art in Latin America. Her wider interests include feminist and queer theory, modes of collaboration and participation, and art as activism. Witkowski has presented her work at institutions throughout North and South America and in Europe, and has published on the history of craft within digital and tactile warfare, labour and craft, textile explorations in 1950s Brazil, and the exploration of Brazilian feminism within photography.