Latino Identity and Self-Expression Through Art Conference

Join us for the Latino Identity and Self-Expression Through Art Conference. This one-day free and open to the public conference is funded by a grant from Connecticut Humanities and with the support of the Welte Society. The conference will bring together major collectors, scholars of Latino Studies, museum professionals, art historians, students, and members of the community in a day of conversation and collaboration around the topic of Latino art. The program will allow us to explore and reflect on diasporic culture in the United States, challenge Latino social invisibility in the United States, and allow a broader conversation of the place of Latino art in the broader canon of art in the United States. The conference will include an exhibit of student artwork and presentations by eminent scholars.

With special guests: Dr. Gilberto Cárdenas - Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Latino Studies Institute at the University of Notre Dame will be our keynote speaker. Dr. Cardenas is an internationally recognized sociologist, one of the founders of Latino Studies as a field in the United States, and one of the most important collectors of Latino art in the world. He is one of the founders of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, of which he was executive director from 1995 to 2013, and was the founding director of the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Mercedes Trelles - Professor of the History of Art at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She holds a doctorate in the History of Art from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. She is the author of numerous scholarly works and has curated exhibits on Puerto Rican art at the Tate Museum in London, the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico in Ponce, and the Museum of the Americas.

Dr. Anthony De Jesús - Professor of Social Work, University of Saint Joseph. Dr. de Jesus is a leader in the Connecticut Puerto Rican community, a former interim director of El Centro de Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY, and the organizer of an exhibit at the University of Saint Joseph in 2024 on Puerto Rican and Latino art.

Conference registration is free. Please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/jPkSxs45Z0 or scan the QR code on the flyer

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