Roxana Pérez-Méndez is a Puerto Rican artist and Associate Professor of Sculpture, Installation, Performance, and Walking Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches studio practice and leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of embodied experience, ecology, and place. Her work explores migratory aesthetics, diaspora, and the relationship between identity and landscape — drawing on her positionality as a Puerto Rican woman artist living and working in the American South.For the past decade, Pérez-Méndez has collaborated with artist Mario Manuel Marzán as Campo Research Studio — an experimental artistic practice that uses walking as a primary method of research, socially engaged performance, and education. Campo undertakes long-distance walks and pilgrimages across Europe, the Americas, and beyond, accumulating thousands of kilometres of inquiry into what it means to move through land slowly and intentionally. Through these walks Campo develops what it calls migratory aesthetics — a practice in which the path itself becomes a site of creative inquiry, counter-cartography, and kincentric relationship with the natural world. Campo's research has been published in Ad Limina: Revista de Investigación del Camino de Santiago y de las Peregrinaciones (Xunta Jacobea, 2024), with the paper "Pilgrimage as a Medium: Teaching the Camino de Santiago," and in the Special Issue of Walking Art Research Practice (WARP) x Soapbox: A Journal for Cultural Analysis (2023), with "Pilgrimage as a Tool for Perception and a Form of Counter-Cartography," produced in collaboration with the Centre of Urban Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Pérez-Méndez also directs Drawn to the Camino, an artist residency and study abroad programme that brings students onto the Camino de Santiago to make art while walking, treating the route as an open-air studio and the pilgrim experience as a form of experiential learning.