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Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

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.