Biography

Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields.

Dr. Gaskins earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992,  an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994, and a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. She has taught creative AI, robotics, multimedia, visual art, and computer science to students from middle school to college.

Dr. Gaskins is an alum of the Ford Global Fellowship program and the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. Her first full-length book, Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation is available through The MIT Press.

Dr. Gaskins makes art using algorithms and machine learning. Her AI-generated artworks can be viewed in print, galleries, museums, and on the Web, including the Smithsonian and as public displays in Brooklyn, NY (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art), Philadelphia (Rush Arts), and the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport.

She has served as Board President of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and held board positions with Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet) and Artisan’s Asylum.