Karlota Contreras-Koterbay is a Filipinx, Appalachian-based art advocate with extensive background in curatorial practice and art management. She is both gallery director and curator for the Slocumb Galleries at ETSU and its satellite venue in Downtown Johnson City, Tipton Gallery. She has organized numerous exhibits both nationally and abroad, juried regional exhibitions and has lectured in the Philippines, Japan and the United States. Contreras-Koterbay graduated with honors from the University of the Philippines with a B.A. in anthropology and an M.A. in art history.

The “Women and Gender Studies on Wednesdays” series is designed to raise awareness about the research, scholarship and community engagement conducted by those across the gender spectrum at ETSU; to provide a venue where women on campus and in the community can discuss and support each other’s work; and to give students an opportunity to meet faculty who could become mentors for their studies.

For more information, contact Dr. Katrina Heil, interim director of Women’s Studies Gender, and Sexuality Studies at ETSU, at heil@mail.etsu.edu. For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.