Public Events

As part of our Latinx Initiative and our current exhibition LatinXAmerican (January 7–August 15, 2021), DPAM is proud to partner with Ivan LOZANO of Archives + Futures (A+F), a podcast for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas. LOZANO will interview ten artists featured in DPAM’s exhibition LatinXAmerican and each episode will be released every other Friday beginning Friday, December 4).

In this third episode, Ivan talks to Harold Mendez about growing up in Chicago and Medellin, working with photographic archives, veiling, ephemerality and in-betweenness, and how thinking about scale and resourcefulness while being involved in graffiti culture influenced his practice.

To listen, please visit the podcast section of DPAM's LATINXAMERICAN exhibition site.

Since the introduction of “Chicano/a” in the 1960s as a political identity, a number of distinct but related ethno-political terms have emerged to describe people of mixed indigenous American and European, African, and Asian descent living in the U.S. Replacing terms such as “Chicano/a”, “Mexican-American,” “Latino/a” came to represent diverse immigrant experiences in the U.S., and has recently been updated to “Latinx” to interrupt the grammatical gender of the Spanish language. More recently, “brown” has been used to circumvent the U.S. as the categorical center and has recast both those indigenous to the Americas and immigrants separated by nationality into one group.

This workshop asks: What are the stakes of these different signifiers used to describe artists and their work? How does language bring us together, across race, nationality, and gender, and how does it keep us apart? What naming strategies allow us to maintain the complexity of identity without losing sight of the unity necessary for political mobility? Led by Independent curator Risa Puleo and poet Raquel Gutiérrez, we will read together and discuss texts written by an intergenerational group of artists, art historians, curators, and critics who explore the conflicting histories and tensions of such terminology.

This event has a capacity of 25 participants. Please email artmuseum@depaul.edu to be placed on the waiting list.

As part of our Latinx Initiative and our current exhibition LatinXAmerican (January 7–August 15, 2021), DPAM is proud to partner with Ivan LOZANO of Archives + Futures (A+F), a podcast for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas. LOZANO will interview ten artists featured in DPAM’s exhibition LatinXAmerican and each episode will be released every other Friday beginning Friday, December 4).

In this fourth episode, Ivan talks to Yvette Mayorga about how catholic churches, quinceañeras and other traditional celebrations she attended while growing up in Moline, IL influenced her work, how she found her voice as an artist and claimed space in the history of art.

Presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with Ivan LOZANO of the Archives + Futures Podcast. This podcast is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

This conversation between scholars Arlene Dávila and Ed Morales explores questions about Latinx inclusivity and representation. Dávila recently published Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke, 2020) in which she draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Morales’s Latinx: The New Force in Politics and Culture (Verso, 2018) considers the ways in which Latinx identity disrupts binary thinking about race in the United States. Together, Dávila and Morales ask, “Where do we go from here with Latinidad?” in the midst of U.S. reckoning with race. The conversation will be moderated by DePaul’s Associate Professor in the English Department Bill Johnson González.

Presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with the Departments of Latin American & Latino Studies, History of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Latino Research. All of DPAM's winter 2021 programs are generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

As part of our Latinx Initiative and our current exhibition LatinXAmerican (January 7–August 15, 2021), DPAM is proud to partner with Ivan LOZANO of Archives + Futures (A+F), a podcast for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas. LOZANO will interview ten artists featured in DPAM’s exhibition LatinXAmerican and each episode will be released every other Friday beginning Friday, December 4).

In this fifth episode, Ivan interviews Salvador Jiménez-Flores about his experience growing up in Jamay, Mexico before migrating to Chicago, his early interest in photography and how ceramics taught him patience and restraint while allowing him to explore the complexity of identity.

Presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with Ivan LOZANO of the Archives + Futures Podcast. This podcast is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

As part of our Latinx Initiative and our current exhibition LatinXAmerican (January 7–August 15, 2021), DPAM is proud to partner with Ivan LOZANO of Archives + Futures (A+F), a podcast for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas. LOZANO will interview ten artists featured in DPAM’s exhibition LatinXAmerican and each episode will be released every other Friday beginning Friday, December 4).

In this sixth episode, Ivan interviews Caroline Kent about finding and claiming her voice by discovering her own language through abstraction, her experiences in Romania and Mexico City, and how discipline has been her friend in the studio.

Presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with Ivan LOZANO of the Archives + Futures Podcast. This podcast is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

A specialist in Chicanx and Latinx art, C. Ondine Chavoya presents on queer networks in Latinx art and explores the works of LGBTQI artists in DPAM’s exhibition LatinXAmerican. Chavoya co-curated a number of historical exhibitions including Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. (2017) which mapped the intersections and collaborations among a network of queer Chicano artists and their artistic collaborators from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. This period was bookended by the Chicano Moratorium, gay liberation, and feminist movements on one end, and the AIDS crisis on the other. C. Ondine Chavoya is a Professor of Art History and Latina/o Studies at Williams College, where he teaches courses in contemporary art and visual culture.

This program is presented by DePaul Art Museum in partnership with the Center for Latino Research, the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, the Latinx Cultural Center, and the Department of LGBTQ Studies. All of DePaul Art Museum's winter 2021 programs are generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.