Fall 2021
Hugo Ivan Juarez – Rasquachismo and the Underdog Mentality
Agustine Zegers – Agenciamentos Olfativos / The Agency of Scent
River Kerstetter – Pre-colonial Indigenous Urban Planning and How to Imagine Indigenous Cities of the Future
Alkebuluan Merriweather – Reconceptualizing the Madonna and Child through Archival Praxis
Marcelo Eli Sarmiento – Convictions of the Classics: On the Presence & Erasure of Black and Brown Bodies in Classic and Mesoamerican Art
Juan Arango Palacios – Neo Perreo: Challenging Misogyny and Homophobia in Reggaeton Culture
Fall 2021 was in program collaboration with AMFM,
Spring 2021
Lorena Cruz Santiago: Visual Sovereignty: Understanding the Ethics of Depicting Indigenous Culture in Visual Art
Tiffany M Johnson: Marronage: Acts Between Freedom and Captivity
Karen Dana Cohen: Making Visible the Invisible: Labor of Mothering as Immigrants in the Contemporary Culture and What Acquiring a New Language Provides
Clau Rocha: Bloodletting as Embodied Ritual: Latinx Tattoos
Alex Santana: Challenging Biometrics, AI, and Facial Recognition Technologies
Charles Ryan Long: The Love, Rage & Roses it will take to Welcome the Death of White Manhood
Fall 2020
Sarita Garcia: Fantasyscapes: Mercados, Markets and Merchandise; Looking in the self-made maze of Latinx flea markets
Natasha Mijares: Urban Wind Borne Debris & Environmental Racism
Marina M. Álvarez: Graffiti in the Urban Spheres of Mexico & Chile: Tools of Anti-colonial Resistance
Katia Pérez Fuentes: Cosmic Patterns for Creative Practitioners: Astrology and Art
Joseph Josué Mora: Egress: Politicized Existence In U.S. and Art Spaces
Eva Mayhabal Davis: Collaboration and Cooperative Protocols
Fall 2020 was in program collaboration with Hyde Park Art Center
Summer 2020
Javier Jasso: Dreams, Alzheimer, and Autoconstrucción
Victor Zhagui: The Bossa Nova/Tropicália Movement in Brazil and Surrealism
Jennifer Ligaya Senecal: Navigating Space: Hoodoo and ATR rooted Performance Practices in the Deep South
José Rosa: Afro-Latinx Presence in Caribbean Visual Communication
Spring 2020
Frank Vega: South American celebrations and traditions in relation to Indigenism
Elsa Muñoz: Relational theory (action) as a response to the Anthropocene
Juan Molina Hernández: Home, haven and heaven
Giselle Mira-Diaz: Generational trauma through an immigrant lens
Astro Escudero: The Plantationocene
Daye Angely: Bending perception with science and imagination