Permanent Seminar (Apr. 10, 2pm): Viewing of Latinx materials with Mari Carmen Ramírez at the Benson Collection

Thursday, April 10

CLAVIS Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art*

2:00–3:00pm

Benson Latin American Collection, Rare Books Reading Room, Sid Richardson Hall (SRH), Building 1, 2300 Red River St. 

A viewing of Latinx materials with Dr. Mari Carmen Ramírez held by the Benson Latin American Collection. The Benson Collection is an important repository for materials to be included in the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) Latinx Papers Project, which seeks to to significantly expand the representation of Latinx art within ICAA’s Documents of Latin American and Latino Art digital platform.

* Space limited, advanced registration required by email to adele.nelson@austin.utexas.edu. Readings to be completed by attendees to be distributed closer to the date. 

Dr. Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and founding Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A globally renowned authority on modern and contemporary Latin American art, Ramírez has published extensively and curated numerous exhibitions, including the award-winning Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America (2004, with Héctor Olea); Beatriz González: A Retrospective (with Tobias Ostrander, 2019); Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color (2006); Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America (2015); HOME, So Different, So Appealing (with Chon Noriega and Pilar Tompkins, 2017); Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood (Menil Foundation, 2009). She’s also conceptualized and implemented the ICAA Documents of 20^th Century Latin American and Latino Art Project, a major digital archive and book series focused on primary sources. In 2005 Ramírez received the Award for Curatorial Excellence granted by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. That same year, TIME magazine named her one of “The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America.” In 2023, Ramírez was awarded the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Sophia Award for Excellence by her Majesty, Queen Sofía of Spain.

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Co-organized by the Department of Art and Art History’s Art History Lecture Series and the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS). 

With collaboration from Blanton Museum of Art. Funding support provided by the Art History Division Lecture Series, Office of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Sterling Clark Holloway Centennial Lectureship in Liberal Arts, and Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Argentine Studies Program.