Our CV
(just a sampling… reach out to Alana and Maria for more)
Some Performances, Talks, Workshops
“Performing with Footnotes” with OreOluwa Badaki and Farida Yusif, workshop, Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, October 2025.
“Sensory Interruptions// Conceptual Exchanges: Informal Dialogue around Non-Representational Methodologies” with Srikala Naraian, Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, March 2025.
“Exploring Arts Based Methods” invited lecture, York University, Canada (Virtual), February 2025
“(Re)Turning: Pulp, Bodies, Selves” co-facilitated hand paper-making workshop, Department of Arts & Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 2024.
“Paper, Pulp, and Imperfection” co-facilitated hand paper-making workshop, Department of Arts & Humanities & Department of Curriculum & Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, February 2024
“What is Disability?” invited lecture, Bank Street College of Education, (Virtual), December 2022
“Exploring ElseSpaces”, interactive art talk, Civic Art Lab, GreenSpace, New York (Virtual), November 2022
“The ElseSpace… A Talk for anyone who has ever been unwell”, TEDx Talk, TEDx Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 2021
Galleries and Exhibitions
Shared
Worcester Art Museum, 2025
This is a group exhibition featuring the work of eight selected artists with disabilities from Massachusetts: Mika Cook-Wright, Chenda Cope, Liz Doles, Alana Guarino, Judith Klausner, DaNice D. Marshall, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister, and Sophie Pearson. The exhibition delves into the theme of sharing through the artists’ experiences, materials, and processes. Alana curated a selection of five drawings around the theme of interdependence.
Sensory Interruptions
Digital Futures Institute, 2025
Composed of the works and processes of disabled students, this curation invites participants to consider how sensations invoked through art can interrupt neurotypical processes of thinking. Exploring sensations of repetition, overflow, and commotion/co-motion, the exhibit provokes us to imagine the many ways by which we make sense of our worlds.
ElseSpaces
Anchor House of Artists, 2019
Anchor House of Artists hosted three women and non-binary artists, Maria Guarino, Cori Cannavino, and Anya Klepacki, who created three alternative-space shows. Each recontextualized perceptions of the world: the stigma attached to epileptic seizures, the experience and manipulation of light, and the power of fantasy in reshaping a future reality. They invited people into these ElseSpaces to explore with them and reconsider these experiential elements often overlooked.
Our Scholarly Publications
Guarino, M., Luke, N., & Thiébaut, D. (2025). Body Tricks. Disability Studies Quarterly, 44(2).
Our Creative Works
Guarino, M. (2023). Memo 3. Corporeal.
Our Teaching Experience
Disability & Society, CUNY School of Professional Studies (spring 2026)
Disability, Exclusion, & Schooling, Teachers College, Columbia University (summer 2024, summer 2025)
Writing about Difference & Belonging, Marymount Manhattan College (fall 2025)
English as a Second Language (ESL), Center for New Americans, Northampton, Massachusetts (spring/fall 2021, spring/fall 2022)
Paraeducator, Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools, Amherst, Massachusetts (2021)
Our Education
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University (2022-Present) Fields of Study: Critical Disability Studies, Arts-Based Research
Master of Arts (M.A.), Hispanic Literature and Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
Graduate Certificate, Film Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
Graduate Certificate, Feminist Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music and Visual Arts, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, 2018
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Spanish and Education, Roanoke College, 2014
High School Diploma, Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida, 2011
High School Diploma, Seminole High School, Sanford, Florida, 2010
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