Women in Print: Latin America
Thursday, May 19, 2016
6 to 8:30pm
[Image Description: A flier with the event title, names of the panelists, and headshots of the panelists. The title reads “WOMEN IN PRINT” with an underline and below it “LATIN AMERICA / A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH ROCÍO ARANDA-ALVARADO, IRIA / CANDELA, CHRISTINA DE LEON, JOIRI MINAYA & JUANA VALDES.” Below the text is a row of five headshots starting with Aranda-Alvarado’s who has wavy black hair, black eye glasses, and smiles in a black and white photo. Iria Candela has straight brown hair, smiles, and wears a black blazer. Christina de Leon, in a black and white photo, wears a black top with a scoop neck, has brown curly hair, and smiles. Joiri Minaya stands in front of fabric with blue and green leaves and green fronds, her black hair is in a bun, and she wears light red lipstick and a top that is black with black and white stripes. Juana Valdes has short black straight hair, wears black eyeglasses, and wears a black cardigan with a red tank top.]
Women in Print: Latin America was the second in a series of annual panels organized by Guttenberg Arts, a multi-media studio and artist residency program in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Hosted in Manhattan at The 8th Floor, the exhibition and event space of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, with additional support from POWarts (Professional Organization of Women in the Arts), this seminal panel focused on Latin America to generate new discourse among curators and artists.
Through an open and wide-ranging conversation, the panel examined the growing cultural impact of women-run institutional departments and studio practices. The panel also explored issues surrounding, but not limited to: politics and material use; themes of displacement, migration, and dislocation; identity construction and otherness; and the relationships between labor, domesticity, and gender and how these issues are integrated into a movement towards highly experimental projects that challenge traditional notions of craft.
Panelists included Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Curator at El Museo del Barrio; Dr. Iria Candela, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art Modern and Contemporary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christina De León, Associate Curator in Visual Arts at the Americas Society; Joiri Minaya, Artist-in-Residence at Guttenberg Arts, Winter 2016 and recent winner of a Joan Mitchell Award for Emerging Artists; and Juana Valdes, Artist-in-Residence at Guttenberg Arts, Summer 2015.
Participating Organizations: Guttenberg Arts / Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation - The 8th Floor / POWarts / Chelsea Wine Vault / Remco Printing
