Established in 2009, CLAVIS is a center for the advanced study of modern and contemporary art and visual culture from the Americas. Focusing on research and the training of emerging scholars, it is a space for the creation of original art historical knowledge through intellectual rigor and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic boundaries. CLAVIS leverages the world-class resources at the University of Texas at Austin—including the Benson Library, Blanton Museum of Art, Ransom Center, and scholars of Latin American and Latinx studies across campus—to build bridges with colleagues and the public.
CLAVIS Year In Review, 2021-22
ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop
Please save Friday, April 22, 2022 for the launch of the ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop, the first of three annual dissertation workshops for emerging scholars organized by Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) and sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art is a working group of faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars who meet regularly to develop research projects in progress and discuss current issues of methodology and historiography. It has no beginning or end, but is rather a workshop committed to ongoing critical collegiality and experimentation outside of curricular and professional constraints.
The seminar was founded by Andrea Giunta and Roberto Tejeda in 2008.
In 2021-22, CLAVIS organized with its museum partners multiple study visits:
In April 2022, to the Blanton Museum of Art to tour Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia with its curator, Vanessa Davidson.
In March 2022, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to attend the International Center for the Art of the Americas “Artist Conversations” symposium.
In November 2021, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to tour Afro-Atlantic Histories and the recently installed Latin American and Latinx collection with curator Mari Carmen Ramírez.
“Dialogues on Afterlives and Different Futures for Latin American Art,” a dossier co-edited by George Flaherty and Adele Nelson, was just published in the April 2020 issue of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, with essays by Flaherty and Nelson, Eddie Chambers, Karen Benezra, and Camila Maroja.