about

Maggie-Rose Condit-Summerson (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist/educator whose current research/teaching focuses on the intersections of reproductive justice and digital cultures/technologies, as well as the development of glitch feminist art pedagogy, an emergent transdisciplinary approach to research/teaching. Grounded in encounters with digitally engaged feminist cultural production/disruption, glitch feminist art pedagogy seeks to build critical solidarities and encourage intervention against oppressive systems.

Condit-Summerson’s dissertation Glitch Feminist Virtual Worldbuilding for Reproductive Justice, revolves around the creation of an immersive online exhibition (navigable much like a PC game) featuring transnational artists whose practices embody the expansive facets of reproductive justice. Overall, the virtual exhibition is a multi-sensory, flexible body of pedagogical materials designed to be circulated online and utilized across formal/informal educational spheres to raise learners' critical consciousness surrounding urgent reproductive in/justice issues.

In 2023, Condit-Summerson published an article in the journal Studies in Art Education examining the potentials of glitch feminism in the undergraduate learning space as a digitally-engaged pedagogical strategy for disrupting normative educational “defaults.” Her collaborative work exploring queer ecologies and water lilies as companion species appears in a 2023 issue of the online journal Visual Culture & Gender. In 2024, they guest co-edited an issue of the journal Visual Arts Research, and additionally contributed an article exploring affective encounters in feminist pedagogical spaces.

Condit-Summerson’s studio practice explores the intersections of the virtual and the visceral, investigating queer embodiment, constructions of femininity, and conspicuous consumption in digital culture. Condit-Summerson has exhibited nationally in the US, including the Seattle International Art Fair, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, and the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. She is a founding member of Killjoy Collective, a collaborative gallery space focused on amplifying feminist artists, which operated in Portland, Oregon from 2016 to 2018.

Condit-Summerson received her dual-title doctoral degree in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Pennsylvania State University in December 2024, and she earned an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 2016.