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. Her series of 'featured futurist' portraits were on view at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building from late 2021 through early July 2022. Her Greg Tate and Faith Ringgold portraits were installed as outdoor murals in Brooklyn, NY by the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art.

Gaskins served as Board President of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (The Alliance) and she was on the board of the Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet) and Artisan’s Asylum.