April 3, 2020, Filed Under: newsCLAVIS alums receive Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship and LASA Article Award Luis Vargas Santiago (PhD 2015) and Mari Rodríguez Binnie (PhD 2017) were recently awarded major awards in the disciplines of Art History and Latin American Studies. Vargas Santiago, a professor-researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, received a 2020 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History… Continue Reading CLAVIS alums receive Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship and LASA Article Award
April 3, 2020, Filed Under: newsAdele Nelson and MacKenzie Stevens win Andy Warhol Foundation grant The Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $75,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support the Fall 2021 exhibition Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil. Organized in response to a heightened political and cultural climate in Brazil, Social… Continue Reading Adele Nelson and MacKenzie Stevens win Andy Warhol Foundation grant
April 3, 2020, Filed Under: news, UncategorizedCLAVIS alum’s exhibition at center of censorship debate in Mexico “We have created a dangerous precedent for freedom of expression in this country. What the president did was give credit to one interpretation over all others.” These are words from CLAVIS alumnus, curator, and UNAM professor Luis Vargas Santiago (Ph.D. in Art History, 2015) after the Mexican government, in response to… Continue Reading CLAVIS alum’s exhibition at center of censorship debate in Mexico
