The Plush That Pricks: Melancholia and Kinship in Space in Between

Madison Treece is a PhD candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on Chicanx contemporary art and visual culture with an emphasis on borderlands, politics, and the colonial body. While receiving her MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University she wrote her qualifying paper on the Chicanx art collective Asco. Her BA is in Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the editorial board of Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal.