The 8th Floor, Guttenberg Arts, and POWarts “Women in Print: Latin America”

The 8th Floor, Guttenberg Arts, and POWarts “Women in Print: Latin America”

^05/19/2016

Women in Print: Latin America was the second in a series of annual panels organized by Guttenberg Arts, a multi-media studio and artist residency program in Guttenberg, New Jersey. Hosted in Manhattan at The 8th Floor, the exhibition and event space of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, with additional support from POWarts (Professional Organization of Women in the Arts), this seminal panel focused on Latin America to generate new discourse among curators and artists.

Through an open and wide-ranging conversation, the panel examined the growing cultural impact of women-run institutional departments and studio practices. The panel also explored issues surrounding, but not limited to: politics and material use; themes of displacement, migration, and dislocation; identity construction and otherness; and the relationships between labor, domesticity, and gender and how these issues are integrated into a movement towards highly experimental projects that challenge traditional notions of craft.

Our panelists include; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Curator at El Museo del Barrio; Dr Iria Candela the Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christina De León, Associate Curator in Visual Arts at the Americas Society; Joiri Minaya, Artist in Residence at Guttenberg Arts,Winter 2016 and recent winner of a Joan Mitchell Award for Emerging Artists, and Juana Valdes, Artist in Residence at Guttenberg Arts, Summer 2015.