Walking Workshop

Chandra Frank is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati and an independent curator. She is the 2024-2027 Taft Professor of the Public Humanities. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on feminist and queer of color movement work, possibilities of dissent, the politics of water, and the ways in which race and the environment work as terrains of power.

Shruti Shankar is a multi-disciplinary artist who engages drawing as an expansive practice through which to challenge assumptions around arbitrary borders, drawing on the remnants of the body to render such boundaries porous. In her practice, she marks a deliberate shift from the finality of a product to the meditative rhythms of process. By intentionally slowing down her studio approach, she investigates how strict routines can evolve into meaningful rituals. She constructs systems of self-imposed guidelines, establishing a framework of safety and structure, precisely to identify the moment in which those rules must be broken. She received her BFA from Denison University, along with a minor in Art History and Visual Culture and is expected to complete her MFA from the Ohio State University in 2026. She has exhibited her work locally and nationally.