Nerissa Cooney

Nerissa Cooney, programming & media manager at Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, is an arts organizer and designer working at the intersection of social justice and the creative sector. She is a co-founder and co-director of Ulises, a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications. Ulises hosts projects, exhibitions, residencies, and open-ended programming that explores publishing as an incubator for new forms of artistic, editorial, curatorial, and pedagogical practice. With Ulises, she has co-edited the publication, Publishing As Practice and organized exhibitions with artists and publishing groups, including Hannah Black, Martine Syms, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Hardworking Goodlooking, and Bidoun. Before working at Boston University, Nerissa was the Poetic Justice Group project manager at the MIT Media Lab and the Director of Programming and Community Engagement at the contemporary art center, Mana Contemporary. Additionally, she co-founded a social-justice-focused graphic design studio, a creative coop-co-working space, and a micro-granting dinner for creative community-based projects.