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Announcing the 2024-26 ¡Aquí Estamos! and Latinx Papers Project Fellows
The ICAA is thrilled to announce the first cohort of the ¡Aquí Estamos! and Latinx Papers Project fellows, supported by the Mellon Foundation and Terra Foundation for American Art. Based in Curatorial, the ICAA, Conservation, and Learning and Interpretation departments, the fellows will contribute to research on archival materials, potential acquisitions, and collection objects, as […]
2024 Peter C. Marzio Award Winners Announced
The ICAA is pleased to announce this year’s winners of the Peter C. Marzio Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in Latin American and Latino Art: Graduate Essay Prize: Nolan Boomer (Harvard University), “Against Maritime Industry: Two Utopian Visions for Las Cruces, Chile” Boomer’s essay examines the convergence of architectural programs and urban planning schemes in early […]
Look Again: Judith Lauand’s Variação de quadrados
Lee esta entrada en español. The 2023-24 ICAA’s UH Object-based Learning Fellow, Elliot Penn (MA, Art History, 2024), models the object-based inquiry approach on one of his favorite objects in the collection: Judith Lauand’s Variação de quadrados (1957). Brazilian artist Judith Lauand passed away on December 9, 2022 in São Paulo at the age of […]
¡Aquí Estamos!: Latinx Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The ICAA and MFAH are working to address this absence via the ¡Aquí Estamos! Latinx Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This multi-year, institution-wide initiative aims to transform this emergent field by opening critical pathways for the increased visibility and study of Latinx art and artists within a major encyclopedic museum.