Wednesday, September 11
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas

Keynote Lecture
6:00–7:30 pm

Andrés Navia
Director
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas
Welcome

Abigail McEwen
Assistant Professor
Department of Art History and Archaeology
University of Maryland
Introduction

Michael Wellen
Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
On Dark Matter

Dinner (for participants)
8:00 pm
Boqueria
1837 M Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

 

Thursday, September 12
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas

Morning Session
10:00 am–12:30 pm

Abigail McEwen, moderator
University of Maryland

Andrés Navia, Abigail McEwen, and Adriana Ospina
Constellations at AMA

Elena Jackson Albarrán
[Miami University of Ohio]
Volcanoes, Piñatas, and the Revolutionary Nationalist Aesthetic: Mexican Child Artists as Inter-American Cultural Diplomats, 1930s

Beth Matusoff Merfish
[University of Colorado, Denver]
“The metal shavings that fell from his plates:” José Guadalupe Posada as Regional and (A)political Context for Leopoldo Méndez’s 1945 Art Institute Exhibition

Luis M. Castañeda
[Syracuse University]
Curves of Subversion: Tropicality at War at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Olga Herrera
[George Mason University]
Of Art and Intellectual Cooperation: The Pan American Union 1936-1948

Lunch
12:45-1:45 pm
Loggia

Afternoon Session
2:00–4:00 pm

Adriana Opspina, moderator
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas

Caroline D. Shields
[University of Maryland]
José Luis Cuevas and the Art of Performance

Alessandro Armato
[IDAES-UNSAM]
“Monstruos desde el sur:” La construcción de la Neo-figuración como tendencia artística en Latinoamérica (1954-1965)

Alexandra Mesa Mendieta
[Universidad Autónoma de Madrid]
José Gómez Sicre, Alejandro Obregón y Marta Traba: Coleccionismo público de arte moderno en Colombia (1948-1965)

Laura Demaría
[University of Maryland]
Painting Beyond the Center/Periphery Axis: A Critical Approach to the Project Argentina pinta bien

4:15–5:00 pm
All symposium participants are invited to a reception in the Loggia.