Reassembly Panel Discussion: Even The Score, Academia, Vol. V

Join us for a panel/discussion about artists and educators working in academia with Lindsay Buchman, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Heather Raquel Phillips, Unique Robinson, and Adriana Monsalve; moderated by Kayla Romberger. Co-organized with Ulises: Assembly Archive contributor Homie House Press.

Even The Score, Academia, Vol. V, published by Homie House Press, is a collaboration centered on the flaws and failures of higher education/academia that engages with hope, connection, organizing, and reflection through the experiences of artists/educators and students nationwide. Even the Score is a starting point, a manifesto, and a space to build from our needs and desires for safety within institutions that dehumanize and disregard faculty, staff, and students at many turns. Our hope is that this newspaper guides us towards clarity in a system that is opaque by design.Panelists: Lindsay Buchman (editor), Kaitlin Pomerantz (contributor), Heather Raquel Phillips (contributor) Unique Robinson (contributor), and Adriana Monsalve (contributor, publisher)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS:

Homie House Press

Homie House Press is a sisterhood, an evolving plan, and a sci-fi sequence where historically underrepresented folx are equipped with the tools to create + publish in the foto book medium. We are visual recorders navigating the current moment with a wolfpack mentality. Community over everything means that we confront with care. We are color-nerd, glitter-obsessed, sticker collectors. Call us book fairies. We are a playground where joy is big and pleasure is major. Safe spaces aren’t always accessible, but we do our best to be the big spoon. We reemerge secret stories with gentle wonder and welcome close examination. The result is always honest, sometimes playful allegory, and other times irreverent fables. Find us in the nuance between cuddling and mycelium.

Heather Raquel Phillips

Heather Raquel Phillips (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist & independent curator based in Philadelphia, Pa. Working across photography, moving image, text-based textiles, and installation, Phillips critically investigates systems of power as they relate to personal autonomy, sexuality, deviance, and transgression. 

Phillips is the recipient of the Toby Devon Lewis Fellowship 2016, the Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant 2017 and the Leeway Foundation Transformation Award 2020. She was the 2019 Visiting Scholar at the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) in Chicago, where she was voted onto the Board of Directors in 2020. She has since helped craft the LA&M Artist In Residence program and curated the exhibition, Sparks in a Dark Room  by Gabriel Martinez. Phillips participated in the post-grad apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2022 and as a CFEVA Finalist in 2025.  

Phillips' work, The Path to Candyland, is currently exhibited at Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, as well as, in the upcoming exhibition,Threaded Currents at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (January 2026). Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Artforum.com, and Sixty (Inches From Center), Philadelphia Gay News and Artblog. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Los Angeles, New York City, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the United Kingdom.

Lindsay Buchman

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in New York (NY) and Philadelphia (PA), whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and the Flaherty Fellowship, and her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, and The Hopper Prize Journal. Buchman has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Lower East Side Printshop, and Kala Art Institute. She holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach

.Unique Robinson

Unique Robinson is a poet/MC, professor, community educator, host, and proud Baltimore native. She received her MFA in English/Creative Writing from Mills College, and a BA in Creative Writing/Black Studies from Hampshire College. Unique has a background in Community Organizing and national Reproductive Justice work, and is a lifelong artist, with 20+ years of performance experience throughout the US and Havana, Cuba. 

Through writing and performance, she consistently works within communities to promote change and collective healing through creativity. Locally, Unique has worked as a Poetry Teaching Artist, and in administrative roles for various organizations, including DewMore Baltimore, AFRO Charities, & The Lyric Baltimore. Unique received the Emerging Teaching Artist award from Arts Every Day in 2017, The Grit Fund Grant in 2019, and a Lab410 Fellowship with Baltimore Center Stage in 2025. She was the cover feature for Baltimore Magazine’s GameChangers in 2022, and a Baker Artist Awards Finalist in 2025. 

Unique is the Director of MICA’s MFA Community Arts Program, and the facilitator for The LightHouse, a FREE monthly writing workshop at Motor House for intergenerational communities. Unique has also facilitated arts education literary programming for Baltimore Museum of Art, American Visionary Art Museum, and has been the Curator for The Walters Art Museum’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration for three consecutive years (2024-2026). Unique has released a variety of zines, short films, and musical projects available on online/streaming platforms. Her latest book of poetry, (not) in service, published by homie house press, was released in 2024.

Adriana Monsalve

Adriana Monsalve (they/she) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text.

Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.

Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people.

Kaitlin Pomerantz

Kaitlin Pomerantz (she/they) is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Kaitlin has held non-tenure-track positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Moore College of Art, Haverford College, and currently, the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Visual Arts, NY. Kaitlin is a member of the United Academics of Philadelphia. Kaitlin holds an Ed. M from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Kaitlin is the founder of Matters, an independent arts education initiative focused on material life cycles, land, and labor.

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