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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 […]

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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 […]

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¡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.

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2023 Peter C. Marzio Award Winners Announced

Lee esta entrada en español. The ICAA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Competition for the Peter C. Marzio Award for Outstanding Research and Latin American and Latino Art. The two graduate-level winning essays will be published in a 2024 issue of Working Papers. This year’s Graduate Essay Prize was awarded to […]

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