Talk: Professors Gómez and Kurczynski, "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas"

Please note this event occurred in the past.
April 11, 2024 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET
Interdisciplinary and Public Initiatives Panel Schedule Interdisciplinary and Public Initiatives Panel Schedule
Bromery Fine Arts Center (Lobby)

As part of the HFA Days programming, Professors Gómez and Kurczynski will present on the Interdisciplinary and Public Initiatives Panel on Thursday, April 11, starting at 4pm. Check out the full schedule here!

Please join us for a panel discussing Interdisciplinary and Public Initiatives on Thursday, April 11, from 4-6 p.m. in the Bromery Center for the Arts Lobby, which will highlight the college’s major funded projects.

Mellon Sawyer Faculty Seminar on "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas," 2022-2023

Ximena Gómez, Department of History of Art and Architecture
Karen Kurczynski, Department of History of Art and Architecture

The Mellon Sawyer Faculty Seminar on “Race and Visual Culture in the Americas, 20th-21st Centuries,” convened by Ximena Gómez and Karen Kurczynski from History of Art and Architecture, invited an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science faculty and graduate students from the Five Colleges to meet with visiting scholars and artists in the 2022–2023 academic year. Its final public conference in May was followed by a community celebration of a new monumental mural, La Cultura es Poder, on Main Street in Holyoke. Commissioned by Gómez and Kurczynski with the Mellon Sawyer grant in coordination with community organizations Nueva Esperanza and La Cultura Consulting, it was designed by the Puerto Rican mural artists Colectivo Moriviví and painted by the artists with the help from local community members.