Karina Ocasio Irizarry

Karina graduated from the University of North Florida in 2024 with a BA in Art History and a minor in Spanish. During the third year of her undergraduate studies, she began working on digitizing the University of North Florida’s Permanent Teaching Art Collection. While working on the art collection, she curated exhibits, digitized artworks, created promotional materials, and programs to make the collection more accessible to the university’s students and faculty. For her Undergraduate Research Senior Thesis, she researched Puerto Rican resistance, folkloric, and Indigenous symbols in contemporary art. For this project, she completed on-site research and documented street art. She is passionate about working towards making museums multicultural and accessible spaces. While attending the University of Florida, she hopes to volunteer in different cultural and museum programs. In the future, she plans to use those skills to help develop outreach initiatives and museum collections.