The Latinx Project

20/12/2023

On behalf of our team, we wish you a happy holiday season filled with abundant love. In this moment of such terror and loss, we acknowledge that finding holiday joy may seem impossible. However, we hope this season provides an opportunity for reflection and the cultivation of solidarity for a world where we can all be free.

We'll see you back in January. We invite you to save February 9 for the opening of our spring exhibitions and April 3 for a celebration and fundraiser.

Image Credit: Daisy Ruiz ( )

19/12/2023

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“The work of Cruz, Ortiz, and Antonia transcends a simple shared Afro-descendancy or a superficial engagement with the imagery of the Creole House. At the heart of their work is an act of reclaiming collective memory amid colonial legacies. These Afro-descendant women are not just reclaiming their personal and ancestral stories, but they are also actively creating spaces for community interaction, asserting a place within Puerto Rico’s foundational stories and physical spaces, and reshaping the narrative and the land itself. They all work with domestic dwellings that have been ignored, abandoned, forgotten, and even those considered modern disturbances.”

Echoes of Identity: Afro-Puerto Rican Women and the Creole House by Estefanía Vallejo Santiago

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions
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Image Credit: Ada del Pilar Ortiz, Entre dos tiempos (segunda edición), 2023. Photo courtesy of the artist.

15/12/2023

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“The following exploration of one femme-centric garment ––the minifalda––and its ancestry in reggaetón and bomba is a practice in “listening to flesh,” asserting that the adornment practices of brown and Black femmes are deeply instructive for liberation through both sound and movement.”

Súbete la minifalda hasta la espalda: Femme Fashion Ancestries in Perreo by Cloe Gentile Reyes ()

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions
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Image Credit: Glory’s self-titles album cover, Glou, 2005. Machete Music Records, Universal Music Latin Entertainment.

08/12/2023

The Latinx Project is excited to present Bronx-based artist Estelle Maisonett’s solo exhibition “Histories We Carry” curated by Johanna Fernandez.

Fernandez notes, “Amid the vicissitudes of urban living and the unsettling specter of displacement, Estelle Maisonett’s work asks existential questions about our place in the urban landscape and encourages us to find answers in the materiality of the city.”

RSVP for the opening on February 9th, 2024.

Tracing Roots
2022
93” x 82” x 5”
Mixed Media on Panel
Image courtesy of the artist

07/12/2023

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“Like Bert’s The Journey, the artists featured in Hija/e/o/x(s) de Su— rely on symbols of their bicultural, immigrant, diasporic lives to provide nuanced contemporary narratives regarding twenty-first century Latinx artists living and working across Nevada.”

Latinx Artists Shaping Immigrant Narratives in Nevada by Erika G. Abad

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions
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Image Credit:
1. Installation view, Hija/e/o/x(s) de Su—, 2023, Scrambled Eggs, Reno, NV. Image courtesy of the author.
2. Guillermo Bert, The Warriors, 2023. Image courtesy of the Nevada Museum of Art.

28/11/2023

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“A more informed enthusiasm for Latinx inclusion from influential white filmmakers would be nice but really, the most powerful and nuanced representation will always come from underrepresented groups telling their own stories.”

Almodóvar's A Strange Way of Life [Review] by Adriana Santos ( )

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions
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Image Credit: Film Still, “Strange Way of Life,” Sony Pictures Classics.

23/11/2023

"the way it has always been," an evocative artwork by Kalyn Fay Barnoski, invites viewers to engage in a profound reflection on today's holiday. Through the lens of equal rights, the piece challenges conventional narratives, prompting thoughtful consideration of the historical complexities often overlooked. 's creation serves as a poignant reminder to critically examine the past and cultivate a more inclusive and empathetic understanding of the true origins and consequences of this celebrated holiday.

Image Credit: Kalyn Fay Barnoski, the way it has always been (2020). Hot stamped foil on engineering paper. 36 x 56 in.

21/11/2023

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“Our society’s largest art form, the one we gather around to discuss and make meaning in our world, erases Latinx perspectives and experiences… The result is a climate that largely ignores our needs, and when it deigns to see us, characterizes our community as criminals or perpetual servants. Thankfully, Latinxs are starting to move beyond raising awareness to finding and building solutions.”

A Roadmap to Increasing Latinx Representation in Media by Cristina Escobar (, )

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions
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Image Credit: Still from ‘De lo Mio’ movie. Courtesy of Rathaus

07/11/2023

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"Chelsea Ramirez, a first-generation Colombian-American artist, renders memory through a hazy style of abstracted charcoal markings, diluted pigments with lace and minerals softly layered into gentle washes on her canvases. Her works conjure an ethereal feeling of nostalgia, almost apparition-like, with her paintings activating an echo of a memory, bewilderingly familiar yet so far from perception."

An Echo of a Memory: In Conversation with Chelsea Ramírez by Marissa Del Toro

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: A Salt Trail–A Great Water, 2023. Charcoal, salt crystals, iron oxide, and mixed media on canvas. 17” x 16”.

06/11/2023

Join us for an exciting conversation between Mildred Beltre and Maria Magdalena-Pons as part of Mildred’s exhibition “Allow me to Gather Myself”.
Now on view through December 7th! Email us for a visit.

Also on view at Maria Magdalena-Pons: Behold

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06/11/2023

Join us for an exciting conversation between Mildred Beltre and Maria Magdalena-Pons as part of Mildred’s exhibition “Allow me to Gather Myself”.
On view through December 7th! Email us for a visit.

Also on view at the Brooklyn Museum Maria Magdalena-Pons: Behold

02/11/2023

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"Pierce isn’t the only Crypto venture capitalist in Puerto Rico invested in Israel. Others like David Malka and Jordan Fried have bankrolled $1 million to charter the Airbus A330-200 that transported over 150 Israeli Defense Force reservists from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv. They also contribute $1.5 million to pay for supplies including bullet proof vests. In this way, the settlers exploiting and capitalizing off of Puerto Rican misery wrought by disaster capitalism and the neoliberal economic dictatorship of PROMESA are able to privately fund the genocide of Palestinians as they publicly profess their admiration for the settler colonial Zionist state."

The Shadow of Palestine in Puerto Rico by Shellyne Rodriguez & Ruth Noelia Figueroa Couvertier

To read the full essay in English or the Spanish translation, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Community vandalizes Brock Pierce’s recently acquired Children’s museum building in Old San Juan. Credit: Comité Boricua.

31/10/2023

Meet the panelists for Beyond Latinx Erasure in Hollywood, a virtual panel on November 1 at 5:00pm EST / 2:00PM PST. RSVP link in bio.

Cristina Escobar is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of , a digital publication uplifting Latina and gender non-conforming Latinx perspectives in media.

Diana Peralta is a Dominican-American writer, director, and producer from New York City. She is in development on her second feature, NO LOVE LOST.

Dr. Ana-Christina Ramón is the inaugural Director of the Entertainment and Media Research Initiative (EMRI) at UCLA. As a social psychologist she has worked on issues related to equity and access for about two decades

Alex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization, migration, and technology. He is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow and an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at .

28/10/2023

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“Throughout the 1980s, Hispanic immigrant arts established a home at the OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, the first Latin American cultural center in the borough and an unparalleled hub for the many talented immigrant artists who arrived in Queens beginning in the 1960s. Today, such a multicultural milieu in Queens is the norm, but back then, it was the start of a movement.”

De Queens Pa’l Mundo: A Brief History of the OLLANTAY Center for the Arts by Néstor David Pastor López ()

Let’s say you live in Jackson Heights, it’s the early 1980s and you’re looking for things to do during the week, but like most, you don’t really want to leave the neighborhood. Bueno, here are some options: you could learn to play the harp from an Ecuadorian musician; maybe attend a lecture ...

24/10/2023

As communities that have endured and continue to struggle against histories of colonialism and imperialist war, we grieve the destruction and loss of life in Israel and Gaza. The history of Latinx people in the U.S. remains a living reminder that there is no justification for condoning any U.S.-backed state violence against colonized, dispossessed, and brutalized populations anywhere and we therefore add our voices to the collective and international demand for an immediate ceasefire.

We speak against the settler colonial asymmetries that continue to besiege and occupy Palestine and we stand in solidarity with those who seek lasting solutions that center justice and uplift those struggling for liberation. Additionally, we stand up against dehumanizing language, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and political censorship.

We amplify the statement of the American Studies Association (https://www.theasa.net/gazastatement) which reaffirms an “unwavering commitment to academic freedom and freedom of expression without the threat of censure or retaliation. The right to teach and learn about apartheid and the 16-year siege of Gaza should be upheld in our universities.”

We also support the stance of our colleagues in the Puerto Rican Studies Association (https://www.ricanstudies.com/solidarity-with-gaza) who understand our duty to maintain a critical distance from propaganda and to challenge the dehumanizing language that naturalizes genocidal violence in Gaza. We leave you with further resources (link in bio).

10/10/2023

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«What I find particularly striking is how Rodríguez’s research and poetry—coupled with her technique of gathering photographs and objects to paint with and from—are a model of what q***r diaspora studies scholar Gayatri Gopinath terms a ‘q***r curatorial project,’ one that “entails an obligation to ‘care for’ and ‘care about.’” There is a critical intimacy in Rodríguez’s pursuits that make it apparent that the subjects and objects in her works are treasured interlocutors.»

Food, Migration & Aesthetics: On Latinx Street Vendors and The Critical Intimacy of Audrey Rodriguez by Orlando Ochoa, Jr.

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit:
Audrey Rodriguez, Still Life with Churros on a Subway Platform (2022). Oil on linen. 36 x 48 in.

09/10/2023

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we are featuring the work of Lorena Cruz Santiago from a series titled "Sombras." also joined us for our “Converging: Indigenous Knowledges” panel in conversation with 2022- 2023 AIR . Link in bio for full event recording!

Image Credit: Lorena Cruz Santiago, "Guaje" (2022). Cyanotype on paper 44 x 22 inches.

03/10/2023

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“I have always identified Magda’s works as shrines to Afro-Caribbean womanhood, in which she consistently recreates what I call the self-birth of the Black woman, the enactment of our self-invention, the discovery and free exercise of our own sense of humanity. Through a very prolific career spanning over forty years, Magda has been opening paths we can embark on in our endeavor to think and reinvent ourselves, constantly asking and answering herself the unavoidable question: What is to be a Black Cuban Woman in the Diaspora?”

Magda Campos-Pons: Enshrining Afro-Caribbean Womanhood by Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit:
Replenishing, 2001. Composition of seven Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, framed 29 x 25 in. (73.7 x 63.5 cm) each. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by PAMM’s Collectors Council. © María Magdalena Campos-Pons. (Photo: courtesy of the artist)

29/09/2023

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“I explore many tensions in Quisqueya. I am thinking about the inevitable outcomes of the histories of the Dominican Republic and how they relate to Haiti and the United States. I am interested in exploring people’s relationships to themselves and each other as it relates to identity. Although I am involved with the representation of the many features of the place that I call home, I want to celebrate and critique different aspects of my story and culture.”

‘Dominicanidades’ in Motion, with artist Raelis Vasquez by Xavi Luis Burgos ()

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit:
Agua Agua (2022). 60” x 72.” Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist ()

25/09/2023

9/28 - Join us Thursday for an in-person panel discussion moderated by Carina del Valle Schorske and featuring Katelina “Gata” Eccleston , Elisa Gonzalez , Eva Recinos and Alex Zaragoza . This panel conversation considers challenges and opportunities for solidarity among independent writers and freelancers amidst changes in creative industries from magazines to Hollywood.

RSVP link in bio.

20/09/2023

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“Osorio’s larger-than-life assemblages turn up the volume of the vibrancy and familiarity that accumulated objects carry, emphasizing the value and intrinsic meanings that material culture holds at both a consumerist and spiritual level for those who have little else to hold onto. For Osorio, no object is without life.”

Mi corazón latiente: Pepón Osorio at the New Museum [REVIEW] by Sebastián Meltz-Collazo

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit:
“Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni.

19/09/2023

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“Together, we believe that a radically inclusive future, where all can survive and live good lives, is the only sustainable path for the archipelago and our people. Though we highlight individuals and groups that are building environmental, climate, and ecological justice, this collective story is just one presentation of these struggles. Accordingly, our work invites continued storytelling that supports community building and root transformations for surviving and flourishing in the archipelago and beyond.”

Madres de la Tierra: Women Leading Environmental Justice Movements in Puerto Rico by Hilda Lloréns, Ruth Santiago and Catalina de Onís

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image captions & credits:
1. Vanessa Uriarte touches the surface of a ceiba tree in the coastal forest known as Playas Pa’l Pueblo.
2. Uriarte is director of Amigxs del Mar, an organization that is advocating for a law that would create a moratorium on coastal construction in Puerto Rico.
3. On the left Mariolga Reyes Cruz, executive director of the Fideicomiso de Tierras Comunitarias para la Agricultura Sostenible (FiTiCAS) and on the right, founder of 9 Millones, Camille Padilla Dalmau, smiles at the Río Piedras’ Farmer’s market.
4. Anabela Fuentes is a community leader in Loíza, Puerto Rico who is building a school to teach children about sustainable fishing practices.
Marisel Robles Gutierrez stands in front of a Puerto Rican flag. Her tattoo reads, “Ni una más, ni una menos” a chant against femicides used across Latin America.
5. Gutierrez stands in front of a mural in the Center for Mutual Aid in Caguas that reads “Solo el pueblo salva el pueblo.” Robles works for Comedores Sociales which has responded to climate emergency by addressing food insecurity and by implementing long term strategies such as a co-op supermarket that offers fresh, local produce at affordable prices.
All photos by Mari B. Robles López ()

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*This photo essay and oral history project was produced by 9 Millones ().

12/09/2023

The Latinx Project at is proud to present a dynamic slate of both in-person and virtual programming for the fall semester.

View the calendar and event details on our website: https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/fall-2023-calendar

11/09/2023

On Friday, we celebrated the opening of “Allow Me to Gather Myself” featuring works by artist-in-residence Mildred Beltré . We thank everyone who attended.

Curated by The Latinx Project with Urayoán Noel , we also thank team members Xavier Robles Armas, Jessica Enriquez and Gabriel Magraner for their contributions.

Visit our website to learn more about the exhibition, upcoming guided tours, and our 11/15 event— Mildred Beltré in conversation with María Magdalena Campos-Pons.

09/09/2023

The Latinx Project seeks a dynamic and organized Deputy Editor/Researcher to join our team for 10-20 hours a week at $35-40 per hour, based on experience. This role primarily involves overseeing the editorial process for TLP's digital publication Intervenxions, maintaining quality control, and managing authors and editors.

Read the full job description via Interfolio; please find the link in our bio. The application deadline is October 16, 2023.

05/09/2023

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“From misogynistic and homophobic roots to a liberatory and self-empowerment tool, perreo has leaped into the future thanks to the women and the LGBTQAI+ communities who have expanded its potential in the United States and Spanish-speaking world. If the genre can help bring down a governor in Puerto Rico, we can only imagine what else it can do.”

Reggaeton Feminista: Perreo as a Tool for Self-Empowerment by Damaly Gonzalez ()

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Flyers courtesy of author.

01/09/2023

This Labor Day we celebrate all the women and femmes for their undervalued labor of care.

We highlight artist and her photograph “Catwoman- Minerva Valencia from Puebla, works as a nanny in New York. She sends 400 dollars a week.” This work is currently on view as part of “Invisible Hands,” a group exhibition curated by at closing September 17th.

Image Credit: “Catwoman - Minerva Valencia from Puebla, works as a nanny in New York. She sends 400 dollars a week,” 2007, Dulce Pinzón. Photography, 30 x 40 inches.

29/08/2023

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“Whether intentionally or not, such references to food systems that highlight the fertility of their land illuminate an opposing reality—a looming challenge to the very social fabric of Puerto Rican existence. Both ecological and human systems share a vulnerability to shifts and transformations. Generated in a moment of both climate and human crisis, FOODTOPIA serves as a nexus that brings to light the correlation between ecological and social resilience, that inherent ability of systems to autonomously navigate disruption and turmoil.”

Foraging the Fragile and Fertile Soil with Las Nietas de Nonó by Clara Maria Apostolatos (.ap)

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Las Nietas de Nonó. Still from FOODTOPIA: después de todo territorio. 2021. Digital video (color, sound). Courtesy the artists ()

22/08/2023

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“Marisel C. Moreno’s book invites readers to question the push and pull factors that motivate the undocumented in the Hispanophone Caribbean to risk their lives. It posits the ocean as ‘the other’ border, while also looking at the representation of undocumented immigrants in the region. This representation contests the negative narrative that is often portrayed about unauthorized immigrants by illustrating their life stories through art and literature.” -Lissette Acosta Corniel

To read the full review, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu/intervenxions

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14/08/2023

Please join us in welcoming Gabriel Magraner as our new Assistant Director at The Latinx Project. We’re lucky to have him in this formative stage of our growth as a new Provostial center for interdisciplinary arts and culture at NYU.

Based in NYC by way of diasporican Texas, Gabriel is a cultural worker and administrator interested in intersections of culture and politics. Previously as Director of Programs at the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures , he led regranting programs, leadership institutes, and convenings serving an interdisciplinary and intergenerational field of artists and cultural workers. He joins TLP from NYU‘s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies where he was Assistant Director. He is an MA graduate of and past Fulbright ETA grantee to Brazil.

Photo Credit: Luis M. Garza

11/08/2023

The Latinx Project announces Daniel Arturo Almeida as the winner of our 2023-2024 curatorial open call.

Born in Venezuela and working between Miami and New York, his practice chronicles intimate and collective stories that shape belief systems and hierarchies of power in the Americas. The product of generational migrations, Almeida researches images, music, anecdotes, and documents portraying nationalism, nostalgia, and collective amnesia.

Read our interview with at the link in bio and stay tuned for his forthcoming exhibition in spring 2024.

Image credit: Andres Ibarra

09/08/2023

The Latinx Project announces our fall 2023 exhibition “Allow Me to Gather Myself” by artist-in-residence Mildred Beltré.

“Mildred Beltré tells the story of gathering black walnuts from Prospect Park near her Brooklyn home to make ink for her art. In her work, the gathering of disparate materials functions within an Afro-diasporic ecology, rooted in her experience as the daughter of Dominican migrants to New York City and in broader histories of mothers and daughters across the African diaspora creating and sharing knowledges.”

Read the full exhibition essay by Urayoán Noel on our website and join us for the opening on Friday, September 8, 2023 from 6-8:00pm at 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor. RSVP link in bio.

Photo Credit: Scott A. Dolan
Artwork: Mildred Beltré, “Shine,” Walnut ink and color pencil on paper, 22”x 30”

08/08/2023

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"These sculptures really speak to my experience as a Diasporican artist that is very far away from home in California. There are very few Puerto Ricans on the west coast. It was hard to somehow make sense of a life that has not been accepting of Latinx differences. Producing the sculptures was a cathartic exercise in bringing my full identity to the forefront. It is not easy being an artist of Latinx heritage in the United States. Mostly, we are invisible or illegible, to be accepted in the mainstream artworld our practices are supposed to fit into prescribed canonical boxes, so it was particularly cathartic to produce work that goes back to my beginnings and tells my story more fully and unapologetically."

The Fourth State of Matter: A Conversation with Gisela Colón by Teréz Iacovino () & Gisela Colón ()

To read the full interview, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Site-specific installation at Desert X, AlUla, Saudi Arabia, The Future is Now (25 Foot Parabolic Monolith Iridium), 2020, Engineered aerospace carbon fiber, 300 x 96 x 120 in., Image credit: Lance Ge**er Studio (.gerber)

04/08/2023

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“It would feel desolate to be working in the Mississippi River Basin without the interconnected art rivers and value systems Cesar, Sam, Kiki, and I are presently irrigating in the region. Thinking about knowledges and functions of the Midwest in American Art, claiming that present collective work and exporting that knowledge to the edges of the country and globally is seminal for power and potential. And to make it clear, there is no intention in repairing outdated racist and colonial art structures in this basin. The proclivity is to engineer culture, technologies, and systems for present and future knowledge workers soulcrafting in the American interior.”

Soulcrafting Interiors: Kansas City’s Art Systems and the Knowledges We Engineer by John H. Guevara ()

To read the full article, click the link in bio or visit latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Material Study, 2023 Anodized Aluminum by Cesar Lopez ()

04/08/2023

Our spring 2024 Artist-in-Residence at The Latinx Project is Estelle Maisonett (). She is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the Bronx. Her work investigates how personal and socio-cultural relationships to objects and materials inform preconceived notions of identity. With a practice comprising photography, printmaking, sculpture painting, installation and video, her life-size collages explore how Latinx identity has historically been composited by fragments of cultures locally and abroad.

Visit the link in our bio to read a Q&A with Estelle Maisonett ().

Photo Credit: Emmanuel Amoakohene

31/07/2023

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“Now that the Manhattan-Project-in-New-Mexico is getting plenty of attention, people are barely asking questions about how New Mexico was impacted by the war-era project in both northern New Mexico, where Los Alamos is situated, and southern New Mexico, where the Trinity Test occurred. Some people do not understand that these are different places over 200 miles apart, but both had communities of Indigenous peoples and Nuevomexicanas/os who were majorly impacted by the nuclear colonial project.”

The Truth About What Happened Here: New Mexico and the Manhattan Project by Myrriah Gómez

To read the full review, click the link in bio or visit: latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Trinity Site Obelisk National Historic Landmark. Photo by Samat K. Jain/Flickr.

13/07/2023

The Latinx Project now accepts curatorial project pitches on a rolling basis. Join us for a virtual information session on September 14 that is open to anyone interested in pitching a curatorial project to the center. Recent exhibitions hosted at New York University developed through open calls include Estilazo (2022) and Building Radical Soil (2022).

RSVP: TLPCuratorial.eventbrite.com

Photographer Credit: Andrés Rodriguez

07/07/2023

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"These trailblazing women not only faced the challenges of sexism but also battled against extreme anti-blackness, defying all odds to profoundly shape multiple American music genres. Despite their immense contributions, Black Latinas often went unrecognized for their groundbreaking work in their lifetimes. However, the tide is turning, and more people are discovering and celebrating their legacies today."

Rhythms of Resilience: The Enduring Legacy of Afro-Latina Musicians in American Music by Nydia Simone ()

To read the full essay, click the link in bio or visit latinxproj.nyu.edu/intervenxions

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Image credit: Machito and Graciella Grillo, Glen Island Casino, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb. Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons.

03/07/2023

To start off Disability Pride Month, we are honoring the late artist Raul Pizarro and his contributions as a painter and thinker. was part of TLP's event "Demystifying Disability" in 2020. Today we are featuring Daedalus, a self-portrait included in Pizarro's series titled Songs for a Deaf God. The piece is meant to represent the exploration of the physical self and its divinity within spaces that marginalize q***r, disabled, and immigrant individuals. We at TLP are in solidarity with those who were close to Raul, being impacted by him and touched by his work the way that we were.

Credit: Raul Pizarro, “Daedalus” (2009), oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.