Arts & Education Without Borders: 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Conference
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Join us at this year's conference keynote lecture for the 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference on Arts & Education Without Borders. Alana Hernandez will speak on "Shifting Perspectives: Latinx Art in the United States and Beyond."
Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez co-creates and develops relational projects and exhibitions that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. She actively engages in a curatorial and methodological model that prioritizes visibility, decentralized institutional authorship, and community-embedded agency. She works directly with constituencies to facilitate meaning-making that is generative, mobilizing, and transformative. In recent years, much of Hernandez’s curatorial work centers on Latinx art and artists working with print and craft-based mediums and investigates how the aesthetic statements thus employed are integral, often political producers of cultural consciousness. Her practice endeavors to bolster critical engagement with U.S. Latinx art that is inclusive of Afro-Latinx, Indigenous, and queer histories, underscoring that these narratives are formative to an understanding of the histories of this country. She has recently organized artist projects with Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Sam Frésquez, Luis Rivera Jimenez, Alejandro Macias, Sarah Zapata, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, and Estephania González. She is currently at work on a major retrospective of Carmen Lomas Garza.
Hernandez was previously Executive Director & Curator at CALA Alliance. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico; Hunter East Harlem, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Phoenix Art Museum; and BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and online journals. Hernandez received her M.A. from CUNY Hunter College, where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. She currently lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place at the UA Poetry Center (1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ). Paid parking is available at the Highland Ave Garage (1420 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ).
The University of Arizona's U.S. Department of Education Title VI Centers — Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) organize an annual Community College Educators Conference.
This programming is funded through the Department of Education Title VI Grant and the University of Arizona's College of Humanities and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
As Title VI National Resource Centers, CEAS, CLAS, and CMES each have a strong dedication to enhancing awareness, knowledge, and engagement of their specific global regions. One of our key efforts involves reaching out to community college educators in local communities and across the nation. Our goal is to assist and empower educators by offering them various avenues to enrich their understanding of the world and integrate this knowledge into their classrooms.
As a Title VI Language Resource Center, CERCLL supports research related to language teaching and learning and provides educators with quality resources for teaching as well as professional development for the meaningful integration of culture, literacy, and world language study.