2024
Public Latino Print Seminar
March 29, 2024
A seminar centered on works on paper in the Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia Collection of Latino Art, featuring J.V.Decemvirale (California State University, San Bernadino), Tatiana Reinoza (University of Notre Dame), Tere Romo (Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor, University of California at Davis). Organized by Claudia Zapata (Blanton Museum of Art).
2023
Book Launch: Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil
CLAVIS celebrated the launch of the catalog accompanying the Visual Arts Center exhibition Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil, Maria Emilia Fernandez, Adele Nelson, and MacKenzie Stevens and distributed by University of Texas Press imprint Tower Books.
In addition to texts and interviews with artists and by the coeditors and UT faculty member Lorraine Leu, the publication features texts by UT current and former graduate students: Chasitie Brown (PhD candidate), Martha Scott Brown (MA, Art History), Eva Caston (MA, Art History), Catalina Cherñavvksy Sequeira (PhD candidate), Thiago Ferreira (visiting PhD student), Pilar Dirickson Garrett (PhD student), Jana La Brasca (PhD candidate), Maysa Martins (PhD student), Lucy Quezada (PhD candidate), Jennifer Sales (PhD candidate).
The event was also honored with the presence of a delegation from Brazilian Consulate in Houston, led by Consul General Miaria Izabel Vieira.
Curatorial Practice Workshop with Cuauhtémoc Medina
GWB 2.206
September 19, 2023
Cuauhtémoc Medina, the chief curator of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, offered a workshop focusing on an upcoming exhibition on Colombian artist Beatriz González for 15 students interested in curatorial practice and museum studies from across campus, as well as the University of Houston and Southern Methodist University. The following day, Medina delivered the Austin Lecture on Contemporary Mexico titled “We Were Not Born Yesterday: Notes on the Predicament of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Mexico.”
Organized by the Center for Latin American Visual Studies in collaboration with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Mexico Center (Laura Gutiérrez, director).
2022
Artist Conversation and Book Signing
Visual Arts Center, UT Austin
September 26, 2022
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Visual Arts Center Fall 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Christen A. Smith, Director for the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies & Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, UT Austin
Organized by the Visual Arts Center and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, with support from the Center for Latin American Visual Studies
Artist Talk: I used to be a boy, then I discovered putrefaction
GWB 2.206
April 26, 2022
Angel Lartigue, Houston-based artist
Organized by the Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, with support from the Center for Latin American Visual Studies
2021
Afro-Caribbean & Afro-Brazilian Art and Visual Culture
CLAVIS, UT Austin
August 17-19, 2021
A three-day seminar for graduate students focused on developing and practicing art historical methodologies centered in anti-racism, decoloniality, and the close study of Afro-Latin American art and visual culture.
Speakers included:
Carla Acevedo Yates (curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
Chasitie Brown (art history PhD student, UT Austin)
Christopher Cozier (Trinidad-based artist)
Rosana Paulino (São Paulo-based artist)
Phillip Townsend (art history PhD candidate, UT Austin)
Rachel E. Winston (Black Diaspora Librarian, Benson Collection, UT Austin)
The seminar was organized by George Flaherty, Adele Nelson, and Eddie Chambers.
The seminar was supported by the UT Provost Office’s Seed Grants for Actions that promote Community Transformation, an initiative to enable members of our campus community to lead projects that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Funding is also provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Art History Lecture Series.
Participant responded to the seminar here.
2020
Against the Canon: Art, Feminism(s) and Activisms
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 2020 (Canceled due to COVID-19)
This international seminar, to be held April 24-25, 2020 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is co-organized by the Fundação Bienal do Mercosul; Instituto de Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Curso de Artes Visuais, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul; and CLAVIS.
2018
Precarity, Resistance, and Contemporary Art from the Americas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
October 2018
This two-day colloquium was convened by George Flaherty and Robin Greeley (University of Connecticut) to critically engage concepts and practices of precocity and resistance in Latin American and Latinx art and activism today. The colloquium was organized with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Participants:
María Isabel Baldasarre, Professor,Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Mari Rodriguez Binnie, Assistant Professor, Williams College; Anna Dezeuze, Lecturer, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Marseille Méditerranée; Irene Small, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Amy Carroll, Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Austin; Sean Nesselrode Moncada, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design; Fernanda Pitta, Curator, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Junior Research Fellow, Queen’s College, Cambridge University; Ana Maria Reyes, Assistant Professor, Boston University; Irene Small, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Megan Sullivan, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Critical Interventions in Latin/x American Art and Visual Culture
UT Austin
April 2018
Scholars from a range of humanities fields in a discussion-oriented symposium focused on modern and contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American art and visual culture. The fruit of a multi-year interdisciplinary working group, speakers will present on their current projects, including examinations of architecture, film, installation, painting, photography, video, and social media practices of artists and activists. Co-sponsored with the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies.
Participants:
Mary K. Coffey, Associate Professor, Art History, Dartmouth College, Natalia de la Rosa, Postdoctoral Associate, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Sergio Delgado Moya, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, George Flaherty, Associate Professor, Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor, Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, Laura G. Gutiérrez, Interim Chair and Associate Professor, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, China Medel, Assistant Professor, Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, Creative Writing, English, and Art History, University of Houston, Camilo Trumper, Associate Professor, Transnational Studies, University of Buffalo
Andrea Giunta and Ondine Chavoya in Conversation
UT Austin
March 2018
Ondine Chavoya and Andrea Giunta presented on their recent exhibition projects, Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, part of the exhibitions for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and took part in a roundtable discussion moderated by George Flaherty on curating as research.
A Celebration of the Collection and Legacy of Jacqueline Barnitz
UT Austin
March 2018
A celebratory viewing of the donated papers and art collection of Jacqueline Barnitz (1923–2017), holder of first tenure-line professorship in modern Latin American art history in the U.S., to the LLILAS/Benson Latin American Collection. With guest speakers: Andrea Giunta (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Melissa Guy (LLILAS/Benson), Gina McDaniel Tarver (Texas State University), George Flaherty, and others.
2017
UT Austin
The Blanton Museum of Art, with the generous support of the Thoma Foundation, organized the first of several seminars, held at CLAVIS, for the 2017 -2018 Thoma Scholars of colonial art of the Spanish Americas. With participation of advanced doctoral candidates from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; University of California, Berkeley; and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Roundtable: Mexico Modern and Beyond
Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin
George Flaherty, Adele Nelson, and Harper Montgomery (Hunter College, City University of New York) discussed the Ransom Center exhibition, Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920–1945, and its relationship to a historical revision underway of our understanding of Latin American art from the first half of the twentieth century. Broadcast on Facebook Live.
Ethical Considerations in Curating Participatory Art
UT Austin
Roundtable discussion convened by Adele Nelson to serve her undergraduate Issues in Visual Culture course: What ethical dilemmas do curators undertake in displaying and acquiring participatory works of art? A discussion among curators of contemporary art focused on the practical and conceptual stakes of exhibiting art that seeks to reject the disinterested, contemplative observer and demand active, engaged subjects. Participants included: Beverly Adams, Curator of Latin American Art, The Blanton Museum of Art; Sheryl Conkelton, Independent Curator; Anna Katherine Brodbeck, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art; Heather Pesanti, Senior Curator, The Contemporary Austin; and Veronica Roberts, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Blanton Museum of Art.
