S2 Ep7 - Latin(X)equis | The House of Abundance

In this episiode we bring you The House of Abundance!!! Mr. Vale and Miss Tina bring us tons and tons of Latinx artist resources and goings-on in the art worlds.

show notes below with everything that was mentioned!

Galleries:

• Calderon (NY) opened late last year with the mission to exhibit Latinx artists and Latin American,
  
• Ruiz-Healy Art (San Antonio, with a new location in NY) has had a strong showing of Latinx artists
• Kiara Cristina Ventura's roving Processa arts space now has a permanent home in the Queens's Ridgewood neighborhood in NY

Museums:

• The Cheech! Joining the Riverside Art Museum family on May 8, 2022 is Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.
• Perez Art Museum
• De la Cruz Collection
• The Molina Family Latino Gallery the Smithsonian's first gallery dedicated to Latino contributions to the United States, the Molina Family Latino Gallery serves as the preview of the National Museum of the American Latino, currently in the works. The Smithsonian Latino Center will open the 4,500-square-foot gallery in the National Museum of American History in May 2022.
• El Museo del Barrio relaunched La Trienal exhibition, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and artist Elia Alba, and as Maximiliano Duron writes for art news "it felt like a rebirth for an institution roiled by protests over a lack of Latinx art at the museum during the past couple years. "

Organizations and Grants:

• NALAC:-Since 1989, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures has delivered programs that stabilize and revitalize the US Latino arts and cultural sector via funding, leadership training, convenings, research, and advocacy. NALAC envisions a cultural landscape that fully values and integrates the essential contributions of an expanding Latino arts field and its dynamic workforce.
• The NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) grant program offers various funding opportunities to Latinx artists, arts administrators, ensembles and organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico. The grant program is undergoing evaluation after NALAC shifted focus to pandemic relief funding for artists in 2020-21 w their Actos de Confianza grants.
• LATINX PROJECT AT NYU - The Latinx Project was founded by Arlene Davila who serves as the founding director. The Latinx Project at New York University explores and promotes U.S. Latinx Art, Culture and Scholarship through creative and interdisciplinary programs. Founded in 2018, it serves as a platform to foster critical public programming and for hosting artists and scholars. We are especially committed to examining and highlighting the multitude of Latinx identities as central to developing a more inclusive and equitable vision of Latinx Studies.
• THE U.S. LATINX ART FORUM CHAMPIONS ARTISTS AND ARTS PROFESSIONALS ENGAGED IN RESEARCH, STUDIO PRACTIC, AND WRITING. They GENERATE AND SUPPORT INITIATIVES THAT ADVANCE THE VITALITY OF LATINX ART THROUGH AN INTERGENERATIONAL NETWORK THAT SPANS ACADEMIA, ART INSTITUTIONS, AND COLLECTIONS
• US Latinx Art Forum is also behind the monumental Latinx Artist Fellowship which over the next five years will award 75 Latinx artists with an unrestricted $50k fellowship.
• Latinx Spaces : Latinx Spaces is at the intersection of Latinx art, politics, and culture. Our mission is to create engagement with the ideas and histories that make up diverse Latinx cultures. More than an identity project, we are the voice for the Latinx movement.
• Latinx Art collective: is the first online digital platform for Latinx Arts, it is available for artists, cultural producers, curators and arts organizers. The platform exists so that museums and institutions will no longer have the excuse, that they "don't know where all the Latinx Artists Are" – if you are a Latinx artists or curator or just interested in Latinx Art make your profile!

Books:

• WE ARE HERE Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World by Jasmin Hernandez (founder of Gallery Gurls) —-> We Are Here presents the bold and nuanced work of queer Black and Brown visionaries transforming the art world.
• This winter, Aperture magazine released LATINX, a collection of dynamic visions of Latinx photography across the united states. We are SO EXCITED for this! Political resistance, family, community, the complexity of identity in American life are just a few of the subjects the issue touches on. Tompkins Rivas, noted: the issue is "creating a visual archive whose edges are yet to be defined."
• And of course there is our latin(x)equis bible! the Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and PoliticsBook by Arlene M. Dávila

SHOUT OUT: to get a snap-shot of all the goings-on with Latinx art in 2021 we recommend the recent article by Maximiliano Duron in ArtNews titled: "Latinx Art Got More Visibility Than Ever in 2021. What Will Change Going Forward?"