Veronica Cross is a visual artist, writer, DJ/radio host, independent curator, and material culture specialist. Her studio practice includes painting, video/film, photography, assemblage, and installation, and explores femme expression, healing, communion, memory, and the potentialities of found objects. Cross studied at the School of Visual Arts, SUNY Empire College’s Studio Semester Program, and more, later earning her B.A. in Studio Art & Entrepreneurial Studies with an Art History Minor at the University of Southern Maine and her M.F.A. in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her current and long-term project is creating an archive, exhibiting archival works, and developing a documentary film for Louisiana-born live music photographer Gervaise Soeurouge (1944-2022). This project inaugurates with an exhibition of Gervaise Soeurouge’s archival effects and posthumous prints (with the estate’s permission) of her live music photography at Baton Rouge’s Yes We Cannibal Gallery: https://yeswecannibal.org/gallery/gervaise-soeurouge/