Event Date
Campus Location:Manetti Shrem Museum
Location of Event:UC Davis Campus
Cost:Free
Contact Email:manettishremmuseum@ucdavis.edu
Contact Phone #:530-752-8500
Event Type:Arts and Entertainment, Free Events
Presented by:Manetti Shrem Museum
Link:manettishremmuseum.ucdavis.edu
Xicanx Futurity focuses on the work of six Xicana artists: Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Felicia Montes, Gina Aparicio, Gilda Posada, Margaret ‘Quica’ Alarcón, and Melanie Cervantes.These artists engage in an intergenerational dialogue that centers Indigenous forms of communal and hemispheric ceremony, rooted in sacred relations. Collectively, their respective artistic practices inform an emerging conceptual and aesthetic decolonial social practice within Chicana/o/x Art.
Guest Curators: Carlos Jackson, Associate Professor & Chair, Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis María Esther Fernández, Chief Curator, Triton Museum
of Art, Susy Zepeda, Assistant Professor Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis
Photo: Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Mitote, 2010. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: María Esther Fernández and Victoria Sarkisian.