Dr. C. Ondine Chavoya was appointed the John D. Murchison Regents Professorship in Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2023. A specialist in Chicanx and Latinx art, Chavoya is co-editor of Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press, 2019), which was named one of “The Best Art Books of the Decade” by ARTnews. Chavoya’s writings have appeared in Afterimage, Artforum, Art Journal, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, Performance Research, Wide Angle, and in numerous exhibition catalogues and edited volumes. He is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
Join us for the 2023 ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop at the University of Texas at Austin. This events brings together six early career scholars to develop their dissertation projects and engage with collections on campus. The keynote lecture will be live streamed here.
PROGRAM
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Session I
9:30 AM - 12:15 PM
E. William Doty Fine Arts Building 2.204
Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles
"Murals without Walls, Muralism without Borders: Womxn Artists and Their Portable Murals of the Chicano Art Movement in Colorado and California"
Samuel Hunnicutt, Duke University
"Indigenous Revisions: Media Technologies and Representation in Late 20th-Century Mesoamerica"
Narcisa Núñez, State University of New York, Albany
"Memories of the Trujillo Dictatorship in Cultural Productions of the Dominican Diaspora"
Keynote Lecture
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Art Building 1.102
C. Ondine Chavoya, John D. Murchison Regents Professorship in Art at the University of Texas at Austin
"Teddy Sandoval: Palm Trees, Postcards, and the Butch Gardens School of Art"
Friday, April 21, 2023
Session II
9:30 AM - 12:15 PM
E. William Doty Fine Arts Building 2.204
Nicole Smythe-Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
"John Dunkley: In Pursuit of a Subaltern Modernism"
Ayelen Pagnanelli, Universidad Nacional de San Martín/CONICET
"Gender and Sexuality in Argentine Abstract Art (Buenos Aires, 1937–1963)"
Adriana Obiols Roca, University of Chicago
"Informal Training: Gestural Abstraction and its Afterlives in Central America, 1960–1990"
Organized by George Flaherty and Adele Nelson
The ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art and Visual Culture Dissertation Workshop is an annual gathering to build community and professional networks for graduate students who convene at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS) for three-day meetings to focus on dissertation proposals or a single thesis chapter. Students present their work to the faculty and an invited scholar.
Additional support provided by the Art History Lecture Series, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin.
About The Speaker(s)
C. Ondine Chavoya
