Lara Carmen Hidalgo is an educator and interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates photography, poetry, film, and video. Her artist books inhabit collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Hirsch Library, Yale’s Haas Family Arts Library, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others. In 2023-24, she completed her MFA at Bard College, was a finalist for The Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and a semi-finalist for a Fulbright Award to Vietnam.