Two lectures spotlight Latin American visual arts

Dr Aurora Alcaide Ramírez, who is helping teach Latin American Visual Arts at the University of Washington Tacoma this quarter, will give two public lectures. Dr. Alcaide is a painter and assistant professor of fine arts at University of Murcia, Spain.

Artistic Gaze at/to Latin American Women in Spain: Exhibition "When We Cross the Ocean"

Friday, May 22 from 3 - 4 p.m. in WCG 103

In this lecture Dr. Aurora Alcaide Ramírez will analyze the exhibition: "When we cross the ocean". Fourteen visions about Latin American and Caribbean women in Spain, this exhibition took place in both Havana (Cuba) and Alicante (Spain), some months ago, and Dr. Alcaide participated in it as a curator and as an artist. This art exhibition tries to offer a wide and varied vision of the reality of Latin American and Caribbean women in Spanish cities: a reality that is marked by uprooting, intolerance, racism, male chauvinistic violence, nostalgia, frustration, labour exploitation and/or acculturation, but also by positive processes as cultural enrichment, hybridization, integration, ideological and expressive freedom, economic well-being, harmonic living together and cooperation.

The concept of the exhibition as an interactive space in 21st century Europe: BIAC3

Wednesday, June 3 from 3 - 4 p.m. in Cherry Parkes 206C

In this Lecture Dr. Aurora Alcaide Ramírez will reflect about how the role of the visitors of an exhibition has changed in recent years in Europe. If before they were passive subjects, nowadays they are very active and their actions are essential to give the final meaning to the works exhibited in a museum. To analyze this fact, Dr. Alcaide will take as example the last Contemporary Art Biennale in Sevilla (Spain) titled "Youniverse."