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"Balancing Act on Home, Art, and Academia: A Reckoning From the Margins" Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the University of Houston. She was also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a... Read More →
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence Graham Memorial 039 Friday: 2:00-5:30 pm Saturday: 9:30 am-12:15 pm Over two days, invited scholars will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, which opened on the fashionable Boulevard des Capucines in Paris in April of 1874. Originally known by the corporate name Société anonyme des... Read More →
“Beyond European Palettes: The Overlooked Contributions of Indigenized Artists in the Historiography of Painting in Mexico” 115 Howell Hall In this talk, Emmanuel Ortega analyzes the genealogy of the nomenclature involved in art history’s considerations of indigenized forms of art and the erasure of over five hundred years of influence to better articulate the processes... Read More →
121 Hanes Art Center rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles (2011). Solo exhibitions have been held at Artists Space, New York (2023); Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2021); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2019); ArtPace, San Antonio (2018); and Ballroom Marfa... Read More →
Llevame Pa'l Monte (The Mountains Are Calling and I Must Go) Reception and gallery talk: January 21, 5:00-7:00 pm Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work pulls from 17th and 18th-century European portraiture, comic books, sketch comedy, folkloric dance, and installation to address race, bias, trauma, and healing. Her work has been featured... Read More →
“The Ecology of Ephemeral Dyes: Textile Colorants Beyond Colonial Trade Networks in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia” 215 Phillips Hall This talk brings together poetry, dye recipes, textiles, and their representations in painting to explore the vivid but quickly fading pink and yellow dyestuffs that were used in early modern South Asia and maritime... Read More →
“Figure, Narrative, and Image-Making” 121 Hanes Art Center Juan Arango Palacios was born in Pereira, Colombia, and was raised in a traditional Catholic home. His traditional upbringing was cut short by a series of migrations that his family took seeking a better future. Juan’s family moved from Colombia to southern Louisiana where Juan’s sense of... Read More →
“Reimagining Liberation: Visual Disobedience in Central American Art” Davie Hall room 112 In this lecture, Dr. Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Drawing on interviews with Central American artists and curators, she... Read More →
“Enacting Radical Futures Beyond Survival Mode, an artist talk by hazel batrezchavez” hazel batrezchavez is a brown queer artist and educator. Their textiles, performance, and sculptural works are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement. batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute... Read More →
100 Hamilton Hall Karyn Olivier, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, creates sculptures, installations, and public art. This year, Olivier will unveil a Philadelphia memorial, commemorating more than 5,000 African Americans buried at Bethel Burying Ground. Last year, she participated in the Whitney Biennial (NY, NY), La Trienal at El Museo del Barrio (NY,... Read More →
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