Virtual Conversation | X as Intersection: Latinx Artists
Elia Alba, Hold My Daisy, digital ink, 2019, courtesy of the artist. © Elia Alba
Coco Fusco, Eu Sou Um Consumidor/I Am a Consumer, performance, 2014, courtesy of the artist. © Coco Fusco / photograph by Janaína Miranda
Christina Fernández, Coldwell Couch, photographic diptych presented as a billboard, 2010, courtesy of the artist. © Christina Fernández
Carlos Martiel, Fundamento (Basis), performance, 2020, courtesy of the artist. © Carlos Martiel / photograph by Jorge Sánchez
X as Intersection: Latinx Artists in Conversation
“Art in Uncertain Times”
Presented by the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts in partnership with US Latinx Art Forum, the MFAH, and El Museo del Barrio
• Live via Zoom
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Tune in for a conversation featuring four of the inaugural U.S. Latinx Artist Fellowship recipients: Elia Alba (Dominican, New York), Christina Fernandez (Chicana, Los Angeles), Coco Fusco (Cuban American, New York), and Carlos Martiel (Cuban, New York and Havana). They talk with Rodrigo Moura, chief curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York; and Mari Carmen Ramírez, curator of Latin American art at the MFAH. Admission is free.
“The Latinx Artist Fellowship seeks to heighten the visibility and impact of Latinx visual artists by funding what it has identified as some of the most compelling Latinx artists working in America.” —Los Angeles Times
Virtual Learning & Interpretation programs are generously underwritten by the Jerold B. Katz Foundation.
Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Jerold B. Katz Foundation; Institute of Museum and Library Services; H-E-B; MD Anderson Cancer Center; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Sharon G. Dies; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.