Archives + Futures

In the final episode of this season, Ivan talks to Nicole Marroquin about the Texan experience vs the Michigan experience, how punk music can lead to liberation, learning how to be better from younger generations and leaving breadcrumbs for them, CPS, pedagogy, and how her practice makes the public history of student movements and institutions in Chicago accessible. A truly inspiring conversation and a perfect end to the season!

In this episode, Ivan talks to Diana Solis about her early experiences with art and community organizing in Pilsen, her family’s interest in art, going back to art school after a successful career in commercial photography to become a painter and how the pandemic brought her back to photography. We also talk about the incredible archive of images of queer history she photographed throughout her life and has recently started bringing out of storage.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Karen Dana Cohen about growing up the daughter of immigrants in Mexico City, wanting her work to serve as a catalyst for conversations about issues of labor (especially the labor of women), and the ways that motherhood has changed her practice.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Alejandro Jiménez-Flores about discovering, empowering and nurturing Florencio -the main “persona” they count as a collaborator in their practice- learning to follow your instincts and the importance of artist-run spaces and community.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Caroline Kent about finding and claiming your voice by leaving your context, discovering your own language through abstraction, her experiences in Romania and Mexico City, and how discipline can be your friend in the studio.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Salvador Jiménez-Flores about his experience growing up in Jamay, Mexico before migrating to Chicago, his early interest in photography and how ceramics taught him patience and restraint while allowing him to explore the complexity of identity.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Yvette Mayorga about how catholic churches, quinceañeras and other traditional celebrations she attended while growing up in Moline IL influenced her work, finding your voice as an artist and claiming space for yourself in the history of art.

In this episode, Ivan talks to Harold Mendez about growing up in Chicago and Medellin, working with photographic archives, veiling, ephemerality and in-betweenness, and how thinking about scale and resourcefulness while being involved in graffiti culture influenced his practice.

In this second episode, Ivan talks to Edra Soto about the importance of trusting your instincts when making work while staying flexible in your process, how creating, collecting and curating fills her soul, and the importance of professionalism for a successful art career.

In this first episode, Ivan interviews Chicago's own Errol Ortiz about his experiences growing up in Chicago in the 60s and being around the Chicago Imagists, finding your style and sticking with it, and how comic books, military airplanes and his love of color influenced his creative process.

The LatinXAmerican Podcast is a partnership between DePaul Art Museum and Archives + Futures. This series accompanies the exhibition LatinXAmerican at DePaul Art Museum on view from January 7 to August 15 featuring 38 Latinx artists from Chicago and beyond. In this series we will be talking with ten artists that have work in this show and each episode will be released every other Friday. The DPAM LatinXAmerican exhibition and its accompanying programs like this one are being provided through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.