Making Art History: Developing Archives of Latino/Latin American Art. El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art Library cordially invite you to a symposium dedicated to the MoMA Library's current Survey of Latino Archives, a historic effort to preserve, document and publish the continuing heritage of Latino artists in the New York Metropolitan Area. Latino and Latin American experts from the East and West Coasts will address the state of U.S. Latino visual arts documentation.
Making Art History: Developing Archives of Latino/Latin American Art
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art Library cordially invite you to a symposium dedicated to the MoMA Library's current Survey of Latino Archives, a historic effort to preserve, document and publish the continuing heritage of Latino artists in the New York Metropolitan Area. Latino and Latin American experts from the East and West Coasts will address the state of U.S. Latino visual arts documentation. They will also consider methods to increase awareness of archival practices and improve public accessibility to existing Latino art archives, with the hope to secure the history-and future-of this vital community. Selected institutions in New York containing archival and bibliographic material relevant to New York's Latino visual arts community will also be discussed.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Miriam Basilio, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings, MoMA
Rita González, Arts Project Coordinator, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Jessica Hankey, Assistant to the Latin American Specialist, MoMA Library
Amy Rosenblum MartÃn, Assistant Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Associate Director for Arts and Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation
Welcoming remarks by Fatima Bercht, Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Moderated by TaÃna Caragol, Bibliographer, Latin American Specialist, MoMA Library
FREE with Museum Admission
El Museo del Barrio
Heckscher Building
1230 Fifth Avenue (@ 104th Street), New York 10029