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Team
Elisa Bailey
Founding Director, Head Curator
Elisa has worked as a Curator, Researcher and Interpreter in Museums across Europe and the Middle East since 2010. She also mentors people interested in cultural careers, contributes to films and conferences, and teaches on museology and culture at University College London, UK, and at the Barreira Higher School of Art & Design in Valencia, Spain. Currently based in Madrid, she has also lived in Italy, the UK, Russia, France, Oman, Cyprus and Austria, and speaks six languages with smatterings of others. Her main research interests and publications cover solidarity, memorials, and the role of artists in communities undergoing or emerging from oppression or conflict, for which she founded a visual culture archive in 2016. Elisa has a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Contemporary Art & Politics from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, received a scholarship to the University of Harvard’s Centre for Hellenic Studies in Nafplio, Greece and also studied at the University of Cyprus.
Kitty Brandon-James
Educational Consultant & Curator
Kitty is an experienced researcher, university lecturer, and curator with a special interest in multisensory pedagogies, play, and thinking through doing. She runs action research about teaching for creativity, and firmly believes that thinking through objects, exhibitions, and curating contains great potential to escape digital silos, enhance empathy, problem solve, and connect multiple social, political, and cultural perspectives. Trained as an art historian and carpenter, her specialism is art produced in Moscow in 2012–21. She teaches at University College London. Kitty has a BA in History from King’s College London, an MA in Contemporary Art & Politics from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge, and is currently working towards her PhD in Russian Art and Politics at the School of Slavonic Studies, UCL.
Jule Rubi
Cultural Projects Manager & Curator
As a curator, fervent reader and traveller, Jule’s passion is to tell stories of the world as it is today through objects and artworks. After her training at the Ecole du Louvre and the Musée des Arts et traductions Populaires (today the MuCEM in Marseille), she travelled to Montreal as a student, before continuing her career in London and Muscat, Oman. Previously a curator and producer of exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she went on to tell musical stories at the Royal Opera House in Oman, and then joined the British design agency Cassonmann for the conception of the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. Fascinated by languages and the bridge across cultures that is translation, she also worked with the non-profit ATLAS and the Institut Français to promote the translation of Arabic literature in Europe, where she discovered the nourishing world of artistic residencies. Her diverse skills enrich international cultural structures working at the intersection between arts, music and literature.
Caroline Trotman
Historian & Curator
Caroline is a motivating and analytical teacher of History, Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science in Paris, France. In 2009-15, she was based between Florida and California, USA, then London and Oxford, UK, where she worked as an Assistant Curator and Registrar at various museums, which is how she met Elisa. Together, they went on to collaborate on a research project on the Buzludzha monument in Bulgaria in 2014-16, from which a book, articles and an exhibition emerged. Caroline has a BA in History, Art History & Geography from the Sorbonne, Paris, and three MAs: in Modern Art & English from Oxford Brookes University, in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, and Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London (all UK).
Laura Garrido
AV & New Technologies Specialist
Laura Garrido is a Visual Director and Digital Media Producer with more than 15 years of experience in audiovisual and interactive productions for museums, exhibitions, events and brands. With extensive experience in managing audiovisual projects in the Middle East, Spain and Latin America, Laura develops digital experiences from the concept, script, planning and execution phase, also working in media and interactive tenders for museums as a consultant. She teaches on motion graphics and mapping, among other related subjects, and has been in charge of the Post-Production of films, documentaries and series for the last three years.
Susana Miralles
Business Manager
Susana brings great experience in business management, employment law, payroll and social security. She studied IT Systems Management at the University of Granada and worked as an administrative officer for the University of Almería. She enjoys carrying out research and learning new things so as to enrich whichever type of company she happens to be working with. She is currently studying for a Masters in Management and Administration of Companies in the Granada Chamber of Commerce.
Opportunities
We’re always happy to meet new people to join our network of trusted companions with whom we can share some of the beautiful opportunities that come our way. We have no formal opportunities open at this time, but our goal is for CuraCultura, as a company and a philosophy, to grow and continue spreading kindness through culture.
No matter what stage you are at in your career (including the very beginning) or in your personal life (changes and crises are normal and accepted), whatever your background (everyone is welcome and valid) or location (we largely work remotely), if you feel you have something to offer, please send your CV, and a portfolio if you have one, to:
We respect your time and your interest, so will always reply. If we delay, please nudge us! It will only be because we are particularly engrossed in a project.