Rewind Review Respond Vol.9

We invite you to revisit these events and take a deep dive into the ideas discussed. RRR Vol.9 was organized by the Exhibitions department, and in fall 2024 edited by Vanessa Pérez Winder and Isaiah Diaz-Mays, with original graphics by Ramyatara Mullapudi.

Yunfei Hua (MA Visual & Critical Studies 2025) is a writer and researcher currently based in San Francisco, who is interested in subcultural communities and their cultural productions. She is currently working on her thesis about fan culture around a highly political-related video game. Before stepping into the writing realm, she was a sculptor and socially engaged artist.

Elisabeth Cobb-Hughes (MFA Industrial Design 2025) is a multidisciplinary designer and artist. Her work centers on topics relating to craft, ecology, and relationships between people and space.

Sam Hiura (she/her) is a third-year graduate student in CCA’s dual degree program for Visual and Critical Studies (MA) and Curatorial Practice (MA). Her academic and curatorial interests lie in contemporary art’s power to undo and unsettle, with particular interest in the intersections of queer and BIPOC representation and criticism. She also holds a BA in Humanities and Art History with departmental honors from Seattle University.

Gabrielle Kedziora (BA Writing and Literature 2026) is a writer and visual artist.

Dawn Lorence (MArch 2026) is a biomaterial researcher and an aspiring architect hoping to utilize adaptive reuse in design.

Marcus Masaki (BFA Painting/Drawing and Critical Studies 2025) is a twenty-something-year-old art student somewhere in San Francisco. Budding curator, farmers market goer, and a painter who doesn’t paint. Reach him at [email protected]. Please don’t make him download Instagram.

Isaiah Diaz-Mays is an Afro-Latino writer and scholar from Hudson County, New Jersey. A former social media editor and tv producer at CNN, NBC News and Bloomberg News, he’s an MFA candidate in the Writing program at CCA, crafting his debut novel of fiction. 

Ramyatara Mullapudi is a graphic designer based in San Francisco who works on branding, visual identities, editorial design, and UI design.

Chloe Vuillermoz (BA Writing and Literature 2026) is a multi-genre writer and musician originally from Colorado's front range. Their written work explores themes of grief, memory, and landscape. Also pursuing a minor in History of Art and Visual Culture, they are intrigued by queer histories in art, literature, and the spaces in between.

Vanessa Perez Winder (b. Lima, Peru 1996) is a second-year student in the Visual and Critical Studies Master’s program and RRR’s Assistant Editor. They believe in working toward liberatory and experimental forms of art historical research and curatorial action.

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