The Latinx Project Announces National Board for Intervenxions and New Print Volumes
The Latinx Project has been awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the production of three additional print volumes of Intervenxions, which publishes original writing and arts criticism of Latinx art, culture and humanities. The print volumes anthologize highlights of the online platform. Volume 3 will launch in September 2024. Additional key support for Intervenxions is made possible by Critical Minded, the Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
At the beginning of the spring semester, The Latinx Project team convened an inaugural national editorial board—writers, artists, scholars, and other key stakeholders in Latinx media—to think together and help shape the direction of the Intervenxions project. The Latinx Project also welcomed a new deputy editor, Yara Simón, a writer and editor with 15 years of journalism experience.
Since its inception, Intervenxions has published more than 260 stories by more than 170 contributors. Recent articles include thought-provoking stories on the absence of Latinx designers in fashion archives, how the Venespora is taking shape in New York City, and British Latinidad through the eyes of a pop singer. The publication accepts pitches from the field and will begin reviewing new pitches in August 2024 for publication during the academic year.
Meet the Intervenxions Editorial Board (2024-2025):
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. In that role, she presented visual arts and programming that reflected the history and culture of El Barrio as well as the greater Latinx and Latin American diaspora. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2009, she was the curator at the Jersey City Museum. 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 scholarly and curatorial capacities.
Barbara Calderón is a writer, artist, and art librarian. She is a founding member of Colectiva Cósmica, a collective that organizes intentional spaces for femmes of color. Her work is guided by a background in journalism, Xicana studies, and art history, and aims to augment Latinx art and its historical perseverance. Her writing is published in The Brooklyn Rail, Artnet, Cultured, Art21, Remezcla and she has produced programs and exhibitions for cultural institutions across New York City. She received the 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Artist Writers grant.
Kency Cornejo is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico where she teaches Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art Histories. She received her PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from Duke University, her MA from UT Austin, and her BA from UCLA.Specifically, she explores creative responses to femicide, immigration, prisons, captivity, transnationalism, gangs, and Indigenous rights in Central America, as well as the role of art and visuality in coloniality and decoloniality.
Ondine Chavoya is a specialist in Chicanx and Latinx art, was appointed the John D. Murchison Regents Professorship in Art at UT Austin in 2023. Chavoya is known for his contributions to the field through writings, curatorial projects, and exhibitions, and he has received recognition for his work, including a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and international book awards for the exhibition catalogue of "Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A." His new traveling exhibition titled "Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art" is on view at the Vincent Price Art Museum.
Lorgia García-Peña is a Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, and the author of three books: Translating Blackness (2022), Community as Rebellion (2022) and The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke 2016). She is also the co-editor of the Texas University Press series, Latinx: the Future is Now and the co-director of Archives of Justice. Her research interests include Latinx Studies in global perspectives, Hispanic Caribbean literatures and cultures, performance studies, race and ethnicity, transnational feminism, migration, human rights, and Dominican/Dominican diaspora studies.
Jillian Hernandez is a scholar of gender and sexual politics in Black and Latinx cultural production and a curator of contemporary art. Her book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment was published by Duke University Press and her most recent exhibition, Liberatory Adornment: Pamela Council, Yvette Mayorga, Kenya (Robinson), was on view in 2021 at the Flaten Art Museum. A public-facing scholar, Hernandez has published art reviews and culture articles for Refinery29, Intervenxions, and Latina magazine. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida.
Isabelia Herrera Born and raised in Chicago to Dominican parents, Isabelia Herrera is a music and culture critic based in Brooklyn. Her work explores identity formation, femme aesthetics, and diasporic belonging through the lens of popular music and performance. In 2017, she was named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media list. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, GQ, and more. She is currently a Contributing Editor at Pitchfork and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Raquel Gutiérrez Born and raised in Los Angeles, Raquel Gutiérrez is a critic, essayist, poet, performer, and educator. Gutiérrez's first book Brown Neon (Coffee House Press) was named as one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker and listed in The Best Art Books of 2022 by Hyperallergic. Brown Neon was a 2023 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize for Best Lesbian Biography/Memoir, a 2023 Finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firework Award in Creative Nonfiction and Recipient of The Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. A 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, Gutiérrez teaches in the Oregon State University-Cascades Low Residency Creative Writing MFA Program, as well as for The Institute of American Indian Arts's (IAIA) Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing program. Gutiérrez gets to call Tucson, Arizona home.
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. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Binding Intimacies in Contemporary Queer Latinx Performance and Visual Art.
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, known for her expertise in comparative race law. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute, and the Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, and has received recognition for her contributions, including being named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine. Her recent book "Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and The Struggle for Equality" is notable in her body of work.
Neyda Martinez is the Director of the Media Management Graduate Program, an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Media Management, and Co-Director of the university-wide Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative at the School of Media Studies. She is an accomplished producer, strategic communications consultant, and cultural advisor with over 20 years of experience. Martinez has produced multiple documentary feature films, including "Decade of Fire," and played a pivotal role in building national recognition for PBS nonfiction series such as POV and America ReFramed. She has a strong background in the arts and serves on various advisory committees and boards, contributing to cultural advocacy and leadership in her field.
Ed Morales is an author, journalist, and lecturer at Columbia University and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He has written for publications such as The Nation, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and authored books including "Latinx: The New Force in Politics and Culture" and "Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico."
Deborah Paredez is a poet, scholar, and cultural critic. She is the author of the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory, and of the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award and a New York Times "New and Notable Poetry Book." She is the chair of the creative writing program at Columbia University and the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. Her book of literary nonfiction, American Diva, will be published in May 2024 from W.W. Norton.
Alan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroZapotec artist and scholar whose work attends to the legal realities of undocumented migrants in the United States, Black Latinidades, and the transgender imagination. Their debut visual poetry collection, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020), was a finalist for the 2020 International Latino Book Award. Pelaez Lopez is also the author of to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020) and the editor of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona, 2023).
Omaris Zamora is a transnational Black Dominican Studies scholar and spoken-word poet. Her research interests include: theorizing AfroLatinidad in the context of race, gender, sexuality through Afro-diasporic approaches. Her current book project tentatively titled, Cigüapa Unbound: AfroLatina Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation examines the transnational Black Dominican narratives put forth in the work of Firelei Baez, Elizabeth Acevedo, Nelly Rosario, Ana Lara, Loida Maritza Pérez, Josefina Baez, Cardi B, and La Bella Chanel. Zamora pays close attention to how they embody their blackness, produce knowledge, and shift the geographies of black feminism in ways that recognize the legacies of Chicana/Latina and Black American feminist theory in the United States. She is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University and TLP’s inaugural Miriam Jiménez Román fellow.
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About the Latinx Project at NYU
The Latinx Project at New York University explores and promotes U.S. Latinx Art, Culture and Scholarship through creative and interdisciplinary programs. Founded in 2018, it serves as a platform to foster critical public programming and for hosting artists and scholars. The Latinx Project is especially committed to examining and highlighting the multitude of Latinx identities as central to developing a more inclusive and equitable vision of Latinx Studies.