Save the date for a conversation between the co-editors and two contributors to A Handbook of Latinx Art. The event will be hosted at the Whitney Museum of American Art
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About the book:
A Handbook of Latinx Art is a curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
It is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest.
The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
About the Authors
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is part of the Creativity and Free Expression team at the Ford Foundation. She joined Ford in 2018 after serving as curator at El Museo del Barrio for nearly a decade. Concurrent to her work in museums, Rocío taught as an adjunct professor; consulted and curated independently on Latinx and Latin American art and culture; and published and advised, in both a scholarly and curatorial capacity at several art organizations.
Deborah Cullen-Morales is a senior program officer for Arts and Culture at the Mellon Foundation.
Prior to joining Mellon, Deborah was executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has also held leadership positions at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, El Museo del Barrio, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She focuses on Latinx, Caribbean, and African American modern and contemporary art and has curated or stewarded numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally.