about

Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson (she/they), PhD is an interdisciplinary artist-educator whose current work focuses on feminist arts pedagogies, reproductive justice, and digital cultures and technologies.

Condit-Summerson’s dissertation, Glitch Feminist Virtual Worldbuilding for Reproductive Justice (2024), revolves around the creation of an immersive online exhibition (navigable much like a PC game) featuring transnational artists whose highlight expansive threads of reproductive justice. As a multi-sensory, flexible pedagogical infrastructure, the exhibition is designed to be circulated online to raise learners' critical consciousness toward urgent reproductive in/justice issues. The project embodies glitch feminist art pedagogy, an emergent research/teaching methodology grounded in encounters with feminist digital cultural production/disruption to encourage collective intervention against oppressive systems.

In 2023, Condit-Summerson published an article in the journal Studies in Art Education examining the potentials of glitch feminism (Russell, 2020) in the undergraduate learning space as a digitally-engaged pedagogical strategy for disrupting normative educational “defaults.” Her collaborative work exploring queer ecologies and water lilies as companion species appears in a 2023 issue of the online journal Visual Culture & Gender. In 2024, they guest co-edited an issue of the journal Visual Arts Research, and additionally contributed an article exploring affective encounters in feminist pedagogical spaces.

Condit-Summerson’s studio practice explores the intersections of the virtual and the visceral, investigating queer embodiment, constructions of femininity, and conspicuous consumption in digital culture. Condit-Summerson has exhibited nationally in the US, including the Seattle International Art Fair, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, and the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. She is a founding member of Killjoy Collective, a collaborative gallery space focused on amplifying feminist artists, which operated in Portland, Oregon from 2016 to 2018.

Condit-Summerson received her dual-title doctoral degree in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Pennsylvania State University in 2024 and an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 2016.