The 2024-2025 CCSRE-Cantor Latinx Art Fellows, Libbi Ponce (UCLA) will be speaking on Material Poetics in ektor garcia's and Gabriela Gomez-Gonzalez (UCLA) will be presenting on Cantor Arts Center’s Collection of Chicana/o/x Art, Honoring Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains. Please visit the CCSRE-Cantor Latinx Art Fellows page to learn more about the fellows' projects. Join us for an afternoon of collective conversation and refreshments. 

Libbi Ponce 

 This project examines the material poetics and historical context of ektor garcia’s work in the Dwelling: New Acquisitions exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center. Focusing on garcia’s use of copper, textiles, and pre-Colombian craftwork, the research explores how repetition and history reflect Latinx diasporic narratives. This study highlights the perspective that comes with the 'new vision' of first-generation immigrants, enriching the dialogue around Latinx artworks in museum settings and advocating for the purposeful acquisition of Latinx art within collecting institutions.

Gabriela Gomez-Gonzalez

My presentation is an offering, an ofrenda, of appreciation on Amalia Mesa-Bains’s artworks and theory of domesticana. We are at a crossroad, one that prompts artists, scholars, and activists to respond to the present injustices by thinking critically and re-examining the past to create a more balanced future. Mesa-Bains’s art, whether expressed as an altar installation, sculpture, or print, recovers the Chicana/x aesthetic memory as a blueprint for healing and reflecting on the power of the feminine, spirituality, and wellness.

Monday, December 2

4:00-5:30pm

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