Lecture 5:15-6:30 pm
Reception 6:30-7:30 pm
This free public lecture summarizes some of the research that sustained the art exhibit El Pasado Mío / My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art (Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, September 2022-June 2023) and is based on a book in progress coauthored with Cary A. García Yero. By centering the artistic production and the social worlds of artists of African descent in Cuba since the colonial period, the exhibition and the book suggest new approaches, questions, chronologies, and sources to the history of the visual arts in Cuba and Latin America. Followed by a reception. Made possible through a generous gift from the Gerszten Family to the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia.
