Join us for First Sundays and enjoy free admission to UCR ARTS! In this drop-in art activity, create your own erasure poetry and DIY postcards inspired by the exhibition Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s-2020. This activity is free and open to all ages!

Photo: Lyndsey Rankin

Gluck Fellow Teaching Artists:

Ojaswi Sharma (she/hers) was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship as a first-year fiction candidate at University of California, Riverside. She writes about women, gender, and our cumulative presence as humans, and also loves envisioning alternative futures. She is interested in a variety of art forms, cultural critique, the study of language, and evolution. She has previously worked in writing, editing, journalism, social justice, and teaching. She got her bachelor’s in English and political philosophy at Saint Mary’s College of California, where she was a presidential scholar and won the Velvet Archer Award for writing. She was also a 2023 publishing fellow at LA Review of Books. Whenever she gets the chance, she loves to adventure and try new things, explore different art forms, travel, and read anything she can get her hands on.

Wenxin Tang is a MFA student in Creative Writing, Poetry Concentration starting Fall 2025. She obtained a B.A. in Humanities at NYU Shanghai. She has led many poetry workshops in diversity forums and academic festivals at NYU. She has published in Citron Review, Poplar Review, ASPZ, Outrageous Fortune. In her poetry, she loves experimenting with form. She incorporates multiple languages into her words, and arranges her text to show visual, concrete poetry.

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