Date: October 11, 2008
Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum at UCLA
La Calle Grita is a one-day conference on public art in Latin America, focusing on the print works of the Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO), which highlight the changing cultural and political climates in Oaxaca today. The conference will feature a range of speakers and scholars from the fields of history, art history, anthropology, and labor studies, and will include individual lectures, a roundtable discussion, and a gallery talk. The goal of this program is to create an interdisciplinary forum for a consideration of the works of ASARO and the collective's role as part of a broader sociocultural phenomenon in Oaxaca, thereby situating them within the legacy of political and activist art that has come to characterize much contemporary Latin American visual production.
Schedule |
| 10:00 am - 10:25 am | Registration, Coffee |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Opening remarks by Dr. John Pohl, Curator of Arts of the Americas, Fowler Museum, and co-curator of La Tinta Grita |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Introduction to the work of ASARO by Megan Debin, PhD student in Art History, UCLA |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Speaker: Dr. Kevin Terraciano, Professor of History, UCLA |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Speaker: Dr. Charlene Villasenor-Black, Professor of Art History, UCLA |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kevin McCloskey, Professor of Communication Design, Kutztown University, and co-curator, La Tinta Grita |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Gallery talk led by John Pohl |
| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Gallery talk led by Kevin McCloskey |
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Roundtable discussion moderated by John Pohl, featuring Carol Wells (Center for the Study of Political Graphics) and Janna Shadduck-Hernandez (UCLA Labor Institute) |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception with refreshments and music by DJ Animao |
