PHOENIX, AZ (January 11, 2010) – Latin American Art Alliance (LAAA), a support organization of Phoenix Art Museum presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore and understand the traditions as well as innovations in the vast realm of Latin American art from the Colonial period to the 21st Century.
Featuring lectures, slide shows and films, “The Americas Series 2010” runs from January to May 2010 at Whiteman Hall in Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85004. PhxArt.org
All events are open to the public. Suggested donation for each event is $10
The ‘kick-off’ event is an exciting overview of Phoenix Art Museum’s permanent Latin American Art collection by Sara Cochran, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for Phoenix Art Museum on Thursday, January 28, 2010 from 5:30 to 7:00pm in Whiteman Hall at Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004. The complete schedule of events is:
January 28, Thursday 5:30-7:00pm
Phoenix Art Museum has over 400 works of Latin American art ranging from Spanish Colonial to Contemporary including portraiture, religious paintings, furniture and works by renowned artists of the Americas. Please join us as the exceptional and engaging Sara Cochran, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art takes us on a visual and art historical journey of the museum’s Latin American Art collection.
Cocktail reception immediately following on the Grossman Terrace
February 27, Saturday 2pm
A major challenge for curators, artists and art communities is to dispel the many stereotypes surrounding Latin American art. Hear the intriguing insights of one of the country’s leading curators focused on the work of artists of the Americas and their role within the broader regional, national, and global art ecologies: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, the new Chief Curator at Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, CA and former Director and Chief Curator of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection in Miami.
March 23, Tuesday 5:30-7:00pm
Informe Toledo (Toledo Report) weaves a plot where the passion and mastery of the artist are inseparable from his involvement in historical and social matters. Using a series of fifteen self-portrait prints of Francisco Toledo (considered by many to be one of the greatest living Mexican artists), this exciting documentary film takes us on a journey from Paris of the 1960’s to political conflict in Oaxaca in 2006. Producer and director Albino Alvarez joins us to discuss the making of Informe Toldeo. elinformetoledo.com
Co-sponsored by Phoenix College and the Consul General de México
Cocktail reception immediately following on Grossman Terrace
April 3, Saturday 2pm
Doña Barbara is a classic film based on Romulo Gallegos’ novel from el ciclo literario de Mexico, Mexico’s literary film series. Starring Maria Felix, Andres Soler,
Julian Soler, Maria Elena Marques and Roberto Cañedo, it tells the fascinating story of a man who returns home after studying law to take charge of his father’s cattle ranch in Apure, Venezuela only to find the area controlled by the beautiful yet despotic Doña Barbara who rules using seduction and pacts with demonic spirits to satisfy her whims and achieve power. Join us for this riveting portrayal of good vs. evil.
Doña Barbara and Informe Toledo (Toledo Report) made possible in part through the generous support of Phoenix College and the Consul General de México in Phoenix, AZ.
April 17, Saturday 2pm
Popular speaker Patrick Frank is a bi-lingual art historian, curator, author of Posada’s Broadsheets: Popular Imagery in Mexico City, 1890-1910, and the author of Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts, as well as editor of Readings in Latin American Art, and contributor to Marilyn Stokstad’s Art History, 3d edition. As witty as he is eloquent, Dr. Frank will discuss expressive 20th century figural art in Hidden Innovations in Modern Latin American Art.
May 20, Thursday 5:30-7:00pm
Collecting Spanish Colonial Art: One Man’s Historical and Art Odyssey is presented by Michael A. Brown, Mayer Center Fellow in Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Museum of Art. Mr. Mayer will discuss the fascinating life of DC Stapleton which was full of exotic travel, romance and international intrigue. Stapleton’s equally fascinating collection consists of over 500 objects such as masterpieces and secret drawers in colonial furniture which turned out to contain emeralds and other jewels, not discovered until opened by the curators at the Denver Art Museum.
Cocktail reception immediately following on Grossman Terrace.
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