The Ideologies of “Good” Languaging Working Group hosts Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña for an online talk entitled “TrUDL: A path to anti-racist, anti-ableist inclusion.” This virtual event takes place Friday, September 20, 2024 from 11am-12pm EST.

Zoom RSVP: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lfuiqrjsiHtFbSFNQ7GB9pL22HBbqrjo7

About Dr. María Cristina Cioè-Peña

María Cioè-Peña (Penn Graduate School of Education) is a bilingual/biliterate education researcher and educator who examines the intersections of disability, language, school–parent partnerships, and education policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a former bilingual special education teacher, Dr. Cioè-Peña’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families, and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, raciolinguistic perspectives and critical dis/ability awareness within schools and families. Learn more about her current research.

About the Working Group

The Ideologies of "Good" Languaging Working Group is organized and led by María Rosa Brea-Spahn (Steinhardt Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders) and Erica Saldívar-Garcia (Steinhardt Department of Teaching and Learning). This interdisciplinary affinity group brings together faculty and doctoral students across the departments of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and Teaching and Learning to co-create spaces of inquiry, collaborative learning, and community centered transformation by interrogating ideological orientations about language, race, and ability that characterize policies, curricular materials, and practices.

Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair on Saturday, September 21 featuring 30+ creators showcasing prints, posters, zines, art books and more. Free and open to the public. Please click here to RSVP.

Schedule: September 21, 2024

11am Doors open

2pm Artist-in-residence Exhibition Tour

3pm Reception x Intervenxions Vol. 3

5pm Doors close

+ All-day Academic Book Showcase

Address
20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor

Exhibitors

Botánica Bodega | CENTRO | Christian Casas | Culture Crush Editions/Destiny Mata/Ricky Flores | Darinka Arones | Digging Press | diSONARE | Dolce Stil Criollo | Editorial Smol Books | Elijah Angelo Chavez | Espacio Seguro | Fotolibros de Puerto Rico | Francisco Donoso | frannypie | Gabriel Garcia Roman | Intervenxions | Jessica Elena Aquino | Kathysketches | Les and Inuer | Lourdes Bernard Studio | Lucía van Ryzin | Miguel Martinez | Mil Mundos Books | Mobile Print Power | ONTO | Oscar Diaz | Precog Magazine | Seaton Street Press | separatingskies | Terminal Ediciones | TU y YO | x_x

& Academic Book Showcase

About

The Latinx Project presents its first-ever print media fair featuring a mix of exhibitors. You'll find a range of zines, print media, works on paper, and artist prints by Latinx creators selected via open call at this one-day event. Alongside the participating artists and small publishers at La Feria, there will also be an academic book showcase with recent works. The event closes with a reception open to the public celebrating Intervenxions Vol. 3, a publication featuring original arts writing and criticism.

Accessibility

La Feria is committed to creating an accessible and safe environment for all visitors, exhibitors, and staff. Our third-floor exhibiting space is ADA compliant and fully accessible for wheelchair users. Additionally, we offer gender-neutral restrooms on the same floor.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with diverse and vibrant voices in our community!

Image Credit

Image of our exhibition El Zine: Contemporary Underground Archives curated by Barbara Calderón.

Photography by Itzel Alejandra

Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair for the launch of Intervenxions Vol. 3. The issue will be available for purchase from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. along with dozens of publications and art from independent creators. A reception to celebrate the latest printed volume and our contributors will take place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. We hope to see you there!

Intervenxions is The Latinx Project’s digital publication. Since 2022, Intervenxions has published a printed volume to document the work of our collaborators. This year’s issue features 12 stories along the themes of ephemera, truth, and flight. 

The support of the Henry Luce Foundation, Ford Foundation, Critical Minded, and the Mellon Foundation made this printed volume and the work Intervenxions does possible. Read more about our new print volumes and national editorial board.

Please RSVP here.

Cover image: 
Juana Valdés. Redbone Colored China Rags, 2017. Bone china. Photograph by Zachary Balber.

Edited by: 
Yara Simón
Alex Santana
Orlando Ochoa

Designed by: 
Jessy V. Castillo

Collaborators: 
Joshua L. Gómez-Ortega
Vanessa González
Rojo Robles
Waleska del Valle Solórzano
Shellyne Rodriguez
Ruth Noelia Figueroa Couverture
Yansi de Abacoa
Myrriah Gómez
Michael De Anda Muniz
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Arlene Dávila
Andrés Olán Vázquez
Odette Casamayor
Adriana Zavala

Over time Central American studies have emerged as a response to increased migration from the isthmus and the formation of large Diaspora communities in the United States. As the field continues to grow and these communities continue to evolve, what are the new issues within the field that must be addressed and what interventions need to be made? What new directions does scholarship need to take to account for emerging categories of social and political identification within the Central American community?

RSVP link forthcoming.

Participants

Maritza Cárdenas (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English and  former Interim Director of the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and the Global Studies program at the University of Arizona. She is also an affiliate faculty member in Gender and Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, the Program in Social Cultural, Critical Theory, Institute of LGBTQ studies and an Executive Committee member for the Human Rights Practice Program.  She received her doctorate and master’s degree from the University of Michigan’s program of American Culture, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California’s department in Comparative Literature. A recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship and the CMAS-Benson Latin American Research Fellowship, she is also the elected delegate of the Latina and Latino Literature section for the Modern Languages Association. Dr. Cárdenas is the author of Constituting Central American-Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (Rutgers 2018), which highlights the historical, socio-political processes that have facilitated the construction of a pan-ethnic transnational cultural identity (Central American) to emerge in the U.S. diaspora. 

Kency Cornejo is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art Histories. Her teaching, research, and publications focus on contemporary art of Central America and its US-based diaspora, art and activism in Latin America, and decolonizing methodologies in art. Some of her publications on US/Central American art can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; and Art and Documentation, among others. She is author of the book Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America, with Duke University Press (Oct 18, 2024), which analyzes thirty years of art and decoloniality in the isthmus. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright and Ford foundations, an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award Grant, among others. She holds a PhD from Duke University, an MA from UT Austin, and BA from UCLA. Kency was born to Salvadoran immigrant parents and raised in Compton, California. 

Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. Her research and teaching priorities include Central American history, migration to the U.S., gender and labor in Central America, LGBTTI Latina/o populations and queer (im)migration in the Americas. Her work focuses on the intersections between labor, gender, ethnicity, race and other marginalized identities in workers’ lives in Central America and in the U.S. 

[Moderator] Paolo Aiello is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program at New York University. He received his B.A. Degrees in Spanish Lit. & Central American Studies from California State University Northridge, where he was awarded the HSI Pathways/Mellon Student Fellowship. His doctoral work has been supported by the NYU Migration Network as well as the NYU Latinx Project Public Humanities Fellowship. He is currently pursuing research related to testimonio, Central American migration, and immigrant coalitions and organizing.

Save the date for a public program with our incoming artist-in-residence.

Additional details forthcoming.

About the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program

The Latinx Project’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the AIR program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus and a public program. AIR are selected via open call each spring.

About the Participants:

Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean-Colombian-American artist from central Florida. Working primarily with sculpture and video, her work references domestic sites and sacred architectures, accumulating organic materials as catalysts for exploring displacement, permanence, and belonging. Sanabria has received an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA in Art, and a BA in Portuguese Studies from Brigham Young University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, UT; Ortega y Gassett Projects in Brooklyn, New York City; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, IL, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, PA; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Her work has been written about and mentioned in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, SaltLakeUnderground Magazine, and Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, being a Gilbert Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and participated in residencies and workshops at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Sweet Pass Sculpture School, and ACRE (Artists’ Cooperate Residency & Exhibitions).

Laura G. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor in Latinx Studies in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Practice in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (recipient of an MLA book award) and has published on Latinx performance, border art, Mexican video art, and Mexican political cabaret. She was a Scholars Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles during the Fall of 2022 and a UT Provost Author’s Fellow from 2022-23, and thanks to these she was able to work on her manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art. In Austin, TX she also serves as the Artistic Director for OUTsider, a nonprofit queer and trans arts organization that programs an annual festival in the community.

Catalina Tuca is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies. After earning a BFA and a degree in Visual Arts Education, she developed her career in Santiago, showing her work in solo and group exhibitions, teaching Visual Arts and Film, and creating and directing art spaces such as Oficina Barroca Gallery, and CANCHA Santiago Residency Program. She participated in art residencies, at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan 2012; Taller 7, Medellin, Colombia, 2013; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, US, 2015. Following these experiences, in 2016 she moved to the US to pursue an MFA at Rutgers University from where she graduated in 2018. After that, she was a member at NEW INC, The New Museum Incubator Program NY, a resident at NARS Foundation NY, a fellow at The Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, NY, Collider Art Residency, Contemporary Calgary, CA, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY. She participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, being the most recents “Rerouting” at Contemporary Calgary, CA and “Temporary solutions that stay forever “ at The Clemente, NY, USA. 

Save the date for a conversation organized by 2024-25 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow Aurelis Troncoso. Their dissertation project focuses on the transnational experiences of women, femmes and LGBTQ+ practitioners of Santeria and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico and how practitioners negotiate race, nationality, queerness and transness within sacred spaces. Their work also extends to Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

RSVP link and additional details are forthcoming.

The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship is made possible with support from The Mellon Foundation.

Save the date for a panel organized by NYU professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo as part of Beyond a Boundary: the Intersectional Feminist/Queer Studies Collective at NYU. Building on Black feminist theorizations of intersectionality, the Collective functions as a forum for feminist/queer scholars, activists, and cultural workers throughout New York City and the Tri-State region.

RSVP link and additional details are forthcoming.

This event is organized by NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and sponsored in part by The Latinx Project.

Fandango Jarocho Newyorkino is a family-friendly community celebration filled with music and dance courtesy of the fandanguero community of New York City. This one-night-only event at Chelsea Factory (547 W 26th St.) is inspired by fandango jarocho, a living cultural tradition over 400 years old from the coastal region of southern Mexico, but infused with distinctive New York influences. Everyone is welcome! 

The roots of fandango jarocho go back to the spontaneous jams that would inevitably arise whenever neighboring rural townships gathered at local festivals and markets in Mexico. Performers and artisans would share poetry, theater, food, fashion, and music: jaranas, violins, harps, folksongs, and zapateados around a wooden platform called tarima. The sharing spirit of these gatherings expanded across the country, developing into rituals that have inspired meaningful cross-cultural connections.

This event is organized by México Now Festival - 20th Anniversary and sponsored by The Latinx Project. 

Artwork credit: Illustration by Alberto Villalobos and digitization by Catalina Sandoval.

Save the date and join us December 6 for the exhibition closing for our next Artist in Residence (AIR).

Additional details forthcoming.

About the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program

The Latinx Project’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the AIR program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus and a public program. AIR are selected via open call each spring.

The Latinx Project at New York University announces an open call for curatorial projects. The deadline for these opportunities is Monday, December 9, 2024.

Please review the guidelines and apply here.

Rasquachismo in the 21st Century

We invite curatorial proposals on rasquachismo in the twenty-first century. Coined by scholar Dr. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto in his foundational 1989 essay “Rasquachismo: A Chicano Sensibility,” rasquachismo has inspired artists, scholars, and critics to explore the resourcefulness, creativity, and originality of Latinx popular and vernacular culture. We invite curators to investigate this term as an aesthetic, attitude, or creative source, and as a means of resistance, joy, and celebration. We are interested in how rasquachismo may be activated by contemporary artists and its relevance today. From mixing and matching materials to questioning and challenging high and low references and aesthetic hierarchies, we encourage applications that examine artists across backgrounds and generations who are producing irreverent work and raising bold questions. 

General Curatorial Proposals

We invite curatorial proposals on any theme relating to Latinx contemporary practices. We accept exhibition proposals from curators, scholars, & artists annually to develop an exhibition exploring issues of relevance to the evolving U.S Latinx community. We welcome proposals on all topics/themes of relevance and impact to our community. 

Save the date for the Book Launch of Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art with C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz. This event is organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) and sponsored in part by The Latinx Project. 

RSVP link and additional details are forthcoming.

Image Credit: Teddy Sandoval, Angel Baby, 1995. Twelve-color silkscreen, 38 x 26 in. Courtesy of Paul Polubinskas.