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In this final episode of Season 2: Latin(X)equis we take a look back at the series and look forward to the future. We hear from our guests on how they envision the future of Latinx Art. We swoon over our dynamic, expansive, complex, and vast Latinx community. We realize we are not alone. And we send a call to action to all of our listeners - Support Latinx Artists, Collect the art of Latinx Artists, and champion Latinx artists in your own sphere of influence no matter how big or small it may be. We are stronger when we are together and we are stronger when we uplift each other up!!
Stay tuned for Season 3!
Hasta Pronto!!!
-Vale n' Tina
In this week's episode we are joined by the wonderful multidimensional artist Francheska Alcantara. We talk about the multiple uses of soap as a material. We consider how traveling leads to knowledge building. Highlight the importance of taking up public space. We learn what it takes to save a local park. And remind ourselves that community is a conduit for change.
An Afro-Caribbean-Latinx-queer-woman raised-by-their-grandmother and hailing from The Bronx, Francheska Alcantara explores slippages in-between memories, fragmentations and longing. Their aim is to explore the specific social meaning within the realm of the domestic and public life of artifacts and interactions such as: hand-washing their underwear with cuaba soap while taking a shower, setting up buckets to catch rainwater to wash their hair, and peeling plátanos with the knife that has the right sharpness to follow the platano’s curve without cutting their hand. Francheska wants to use these subjective experiences to expand our capacity for pleasure, love and intra-connection. Francheska graduated with a MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Painting from Hunter College, and a BA in Art History from Old Dominion University. Alcántara has shared their work at the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum, La Mama Theater, Grace Exhibition Space, and BronxArtSpace.
Website
New Latinx Art Collective
The North Bronx Collective
In this episode we bring you a great conversation with latinx curator Dulcina Abreu. We talk about how education leads to liberation. We dive into whether "Latinx Art" is a trend. Dulcina reminds us to respect our community elders. We discuss the problem with museum interpretations. And we consider how archive-keeping and archive-making is paramount in righting the wrongs of a “forgetful” art historical record.
Dulcina Abreu is a Dominican-born independent curator, artist, and museum advocate currently based in Baltimore, MD. She graduated with a MFA in Curatorial Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a BFA in Fine Arts and Media from Parsons, The New School. Prior to living in New York, Dulcina studied at The National School of Visual Arts and Altos de Chavon School of Design, both in the Dominican Republic. Abreu’s work explores 21st century visual and material culture from the Caribbean Diaspora in the US, immigration, community organizing, and mutactivism. She serves as the Consulting Curator for the September 11th,2001: An Evolving Legacy project at the National Museum of American History; and is the Co-founder of the International Coalition of Museum Professionals and Communities alongside Armando Perla. Abreu currently manages the NYC Latino 9-11 collecting initiative and NYC Latino COVID-19 project which aims to expand the national narrative with Latino/a new yorker stories and material culture; Dulcina will also be joining the Latinx Youth Movements project this upcoming august to support lead curator Margaret Salazar-Porzio with a curatorial assistant position at the Molina Family Latino Gallery in collaboration with the Smithsonian Latino Center and the National Museum of American History.
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Website: https://dulcinaabreu.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dulcinaabreu/
In this episiode we bring you The House of Abundance!!! Mr. Vale and Miss Tina bring us tons and tons of Latinx artist resources and goings-on in the art worlds.
show notes below with everything that was mentioned!
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SHOUT OUT: to get a snap-shot of all the goings-on with Latinx art in 2021 we recommend the recent article by Maximiliano Duron in ArtNews titled: “Latinx Art Got More Visibility Than Ever in 2021. What Will Change Going Forward?”
In this week's episode we bring you a super upbeat interview with rising Latinx artist Justin Favela! Some of you may know him as FavyFav from the popular podcasts Latinos Who Lunch, and The Art People Podcast. In this episode we get real about wedging ourselves into spaces of power, we dissect a piñata mosaic, discuss the qualifications of taco experts, get into Latinx art history, and we find out how the Favela Family Fiestas come into being in museums across the United States.
Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience, Justin Favela has exhibited his work both internationally and across the United States. His installations have been commissioned by museums including the Denver Art Museum in Colorado and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. He is the recipient of the 2018 Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist and is a current Joan Mitchell Fellow, 2021. He holds a BFA in fine art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Karen Vidangos, known as “Latina in Museums” online, is a digital strategist and Latinx art advocate. Founder of the first nationwide digital collective exclusively for U.S. Latinx artists, Latinx Art Collective, Karen uses social media to highlight the Latinx community in the art world.
As social media strategist for the Smithsonian, Karen has led campaigns at the National Portrait Gallery, such as the 2019 American Portrait Gala, the Obama Portraits National Tour, and Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. She was recently appointed as the lead social strategist for the Smitshonian’s new Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative, convening national conversations about race and community.
She's written for A Woman's Thing and Remezcla, and been featured in Bust Magazine, Bustle, Remezcla, and The Art Gorgeous. She has been an invited speaker at Tufts University, the University of Maryland, and George Washington University.
Karen received her undergraduate degree in art history and criticism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master's degree in museum studies from George Washington University, with a concentration in museum management.
Learn more about her by visiting latinainmuseums.com.
This week we interview Armando Lopez-Bircann!! We talk about what it's like to go from the club, to the gallery, to the museum— existing between spaces, and not seeing a difference between the real and the virtual.
Armando Lopez-Bircann is a Latinx artist that engineers wearable sculptures, digital media and performances. Their practice is framed by immigrant narratives, genderfluid expression and digital native sensibilities. They design works in collaboration with dancers, circus performers, photographers, videographers, musicians and other artists. Currently living in Washington DC, Lopez-Bircann is a former DC Commission of Arts and Humanities fellow, Concordia University and Corcoran College of Art + Design alumni.
website: https://www.armandolopezbircann.com/
Instagram: @arma.dura https://www.instagram.com/arma.dura/?hl=en
In this episode we interview Latinx arts organizer Fabiola R. Delgado!! We dive deep into her multifaceted work as a self professed art-pusher. We talk about starting an art collection, becoming a curator, pushing and resting, manifest-dismantling, and the benefits of standing still!
Fabiola may wear a badge as an Experience Developer at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum but she wears many hats as an independent curator, creative consultant, writer, and performer.
Originally from Venezuela with a background in International Human Rights Law, she set headquarters in Washington DC, where she turned her career and now strives for justice through art and cultural experiences. Recognizing storytelling as the essence of her practice, Fabiola works on thought-provoking and imaginative projects that push the boundaries of perspectives and encourage intergenerational creative learning.
Fabiola has worked with institutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of American History, Times Square Arts, the National Museum of Asian Art, the Embassy of Spain, the Museum of Food and Drink, Latela Curatorial, No Kings Collective, the Eaton Hotel, and The Fundred Project with MacArthur Fellow Mel Chin, and The Obama White House.
She’s a co-founder of KAMA-DC, a community-building platform for immigrant-led cultural experiences, and a member of the Curatorial Selection Committee of the GLB Memorial Fund for the Arts, an annual award supporting woman artists and curators in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. She also serves as a Communications and Engagement Advisory Committee member for S.O.U.R.C.E Studio, an artist-centered and action-oriented studio focused on artistic approaches that connect people while addressing human challenges in bold, beautiful and poetic ways.
Learn More about Fabiola at https://fabiolardelgado.com/
Follow her on instagram at @call.me.fa https://www.instagram.com/call.me.fa/?hl=en
In this episode Miss Tina and Mr. Vale have the pleasure of interviewing the wonderful Latinx artist Maria Del Carmen Montoya!!!!
Maria Del Carmen Montoya operates in the contested ground between art and social activism. Her primary medium is the communal process of making meaning. As an artist, she seeks ways to catalyze this natural social phenomenon with situations that insist on the power of human-scale intervention in the presumed inevitability of everyday life. Her methodology is dialogic and collaborative. She believes that art can be a potent crucible for social change. Thus, her work is often about resistance and challenging norms, inverting power hierarchies and breaking rules, but she also traffics in beauty, memory, humor and other potentially radical forces for activating communities.
She has lived and worked throughout Latin America where she served as the sole interpreter for an assembly of rural farms in San Salvador, an advocate for battered women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and an English teacher for a craft cooperative in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Her work has been shown at SIGGRAPH, PERFORMA, New Museum Festival of Ideas, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Venice Biennial of Architecture and Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, in Morelia, Mexico, where she co-founded an artist residency for multimedia performance art.
She is a core member of Ghana ThinkTank, an international artist collective that “develops the first world” by flipping traditional power dynamics, asking people living in the “third world” to intervene into the lives of the people living in the so-called “developed” world. Their innovative approach to public art reveals blind spots between otherwise disconnected cultures, challenges assumptions about who is “needy,” and turns the idea of expertise on its head. Their ongoing project, "The American Riad," transforms abandoned buildings and empty lots into an Islamic Riad: communal housing surrounding an elaborate and beautifully designed courtyard. Rather than demonizing Muslims and immigrants as a threat to American culture and safety, this project instead looks at how we can adopt elements of Islamic and African Culture to solve American problems.
She is the current Director of Graduate Studies, M.F.A. in Fine Arts and Social Practice, Studio Arts Program at the GW Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC.
Find out more about her work at http://www.lajunkielovegun.com/MariaDelCarmenMontoya/?page_id=2
http://www.ghanathinktank.org/
follow her on instagram at: @mariadelcarmen.montoya + @ghanathinktank
reach out to Carmen at : [email protected]
Series 2 is here! In this first episode Mr. Vale and Miss Tina introduce Latin(X)Equis and give us a bit of context for the series as a whole. They consider their personal relationship to the “X” and get us grounded in some art historical moments that lay the groundwork for the episodes to follow. Tune in every Friday for new episodes!
call our office at 202 - 670 - 9739 and leave us a voicemail - we want to know, what does Latinx Art mean to you? Your responses may be included in our upcoming episodes!
This series is generously supported by the GLB memorial fund.
The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.