In collaboration with art advocate Eva Mayhabal Davis, and in the spirit of community-based sharing, we will co-facilitate a Zoom conversation to showcase local queer artists of color. We will gather for food, conversation, and maybe if we’re lucky some dancing in the comfort of our homes.
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El Salón is a gathering to share ideas, food, conversation, and acknowledgment of presence. This assembly travels and collaborates with various spaces to host forums on contemporary art and cultural topics. Most of the time as a nutritious and soulful potluck.
Each evening contextualizes artists, collectives, creative endeavors, personal journeys, and histories. Through curated presentations, abstract ideas are considered and expressions of art and culture are shared. The focus is on intersectional art-making and responses to socio-political systems and raw cultural exchange.
This is a sustainable practice, environmentally conscious that considers alternate economies such as food justice and resource sharing. As such, through a potluck model, we strive to nurture the group with food, knowledge, and ideas.
Eva Mayhabal Davis has organized exhibitions at BronxArtSpace, En Foco, Expressiones Cultural Center, MECA International Art Fair, and Ray Gallery. Davis was Gallery and Studio Program Manager at Smack Mellon from 2016 to 2019. In 2020, she will be the Curator-in-Residence at Brooklyn’s Kunstraum LLC. She has spoken on her curatorial work at AC Institute, Artists Space, Queens Museum, The 8th Floor, NYC Crit Club, and Queensborough Community College. Her writing has been featured in Hemispheric Institute’s Cuadernos, Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal, CultureWork Magazine, and the Guggenheim Museum Blog. She was a Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Curatorial Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and an alum of the No Longer Empty: Curatorial Lab. In 2018, she participated in the Art & Law Program Fellowship, and in 2019 she was a Leadership Advocacy Fellow for the National Association for Latinos in Art and Culture and an NYFA Leadership Boot Camp participant. Davis was born in Mexico, raised in the United States, and studied art history at the University of Washington. Now based in New York, she works with artists and creatives in the production of exhibitions, texts, and events. As a cultural liaison, her focus is on supporting equity and social justice values in arts and culture.
This event was organized by 2019-2020 Latinx Project Artist-in-Residence, Vick Quezada.
Event Recap
Thank you for joining us for El Salón: De Mi Casa a Tu Casa, featuring Eva Mayhabal Davis in conversation with Vick Quezada, Ray Ferreira, and Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski. Friends from all over the US and even PuertoRico and Panama joined us virtually. We were honored to host these brilliant artists thanks to the vision and curation of @evamayha, and Vick Quezada’s collaborative AIR programming.
