DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
WILZIG EROTIC ART MUSEUM

Melissa Blundell-Osorio is the Director of Education at the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum (WEAM). She spearheaded the creation of WEAM's Education Department in 2017, establishing the museum's first educational and public engagement programs, including the Tea & Sex series. Melissa is an experienced facilitator, speaker, and producer, having run over 200 adult education and engagement programs over the last 8 years. She is passionate about fostering curiosity and creating spaces that allow people to explore a wide range of topics related to sex, gender, and sexuality. Melissa holds a BA in Anthropology and will begin pursuing a Master of Science in Human Evolution and Behavior at University College London this fall.

CURATOR
KINSEY INSTITUTE
INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Rebecca Fasman (she/her) is the Curator for the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rebecca has spent the last 20 years working in museums and art institutions, including but not limited to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Deutsche Bank (New York City), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Her curatorial practice focuses on artists who have been left out of the mainstream art historical canon due to any number of systems of oppression, and to expose methods of marginalization within the art world and society at large.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE & CURATOR
RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITY BERLIN

Hannes Hacke is a research associate and curator at the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality at Humboldt-University, Berlin where he is currently working on the documentation, preservation, and exhibition of the Naomi Wilzig Art Collection. Hannes holds an MA in Gender Studies and European Ethnology from Humboldt-University. His doctoral research at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage focuses on the history and impact of LGBTIQ history exhibitions in Berlin. He is the co-founders of the network Museen Queeren Berlin and of Queersearch, the umbrella organization of the queer archives, libraries, and collections in the German-speaking world.