Cultural Conversations: Reflections on Luces y Sombras: Mexican Photography from the Bank of America Collection

Cultural Conversations: Reflections on Luces y Sombras: Mexican Photography from the Bank of America Collection

VIRTUAL, Select Thursdays, 6:00pm -7:00pm

Join us for a series of virtual presentations by distinguished speakers whose work extends the themes of the exhibition Luces y Sombras. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to each webinar.

FREE, registration required

October 14:

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November 11: Photography in Mexico: Women Behind the Lens with Elizabeth Ferrer, Curator

The history of modern photography in Mexico is distinguished by the outsize presence of women behind the lens — figures like Tina Modotti, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, Mariana Yampolsky, and Flor Garduño. Ferrer will discuss these figures and the central role that women have played in Mexico as photographic artists who have endowed the medium with a deeply humanistic and indeed, feminist voice.

Elizabeth Ferrer is Chief Curator at BRIC, a multi-disciplinary arts organization in Brooklyn, as well as a scholar of Latinx and Mexican photography. She has written extensively and curated exhibitions of Mexican modern and contemporary photography. Ferrer is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (Aperture, NY), named a New York Times notable book of the year, as well as of numerous exhibition catalogues published in the United States and Mexico. Most recently, she authored Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History, published by the University of Washington Press in January 2021.

Ferrer has also curated major exhibitions that have appeared at such institutions as the Smithsonian Institution, Notre Dame University, El Museo del Barrio, the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, and the Americas Society in New York, where she was Gallery Director for several years. She is now at work on an exhibition and book about Louis Carlos Bernal, a pioneering Chicano photography who worked in Mexico and the American Southwest. Ferrer, who studied art history at Wellesley College and Columbia University, is originally from Los Angeles and is based in Brooklyn, New York, and in Western Massachusetts.

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December 16: Music of Mexico with David Peñaflor, Songwriter and Folklorist

Join us for a virtual presentation of live music accompanied by a discussion of traditions within Mexican music. Presented in partnership with Casa de Mexico and Casa de Artes y Cultura CABETCAL.

David Peñaflor is a Mexican singer-songwriter and folklorist who is well known for his music inspired by Pre-Columbian cultures. Within his presentations, he creates sound atmospheres that evoke the great Aztec and Mayan civilizations. His work is informed by ethnomusicological research and his travels throughout Mexico, during which he interacted with many different ethnic groups and acquired a collection of culturally-specific musical instruments. Peñaflor is a former cast member at EPCOT’s Mexican Pavilion, and in 2017 he received the Florida Folk Life Award for his research and performances.

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For more information, call us at 407.896.4231 ext. 262 or email dmatteson@omart.org.