Gallery Talk: Patrick A. Polk and Charlene Villaseñor Black
IN PERSON
Join us for a gallery talk on the exhibition Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico with Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion Patrick A. Polk and Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center Charlene Villaseñor Black. The evening will be paired with light refreshments in the courtyard.
Patrick A. Polk’s research interests encompass material religion and visual piety, religion and healing, popular religion in North and Latin America, and African diasporic sacred arts. He has curated several Fowler exhibitions, including: The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond; Botánica Los Angeles: Latino Popular Religious Art in the City of Angels; Sinful Saints and Saintly Sinners at the Margins of the Americas; and Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis.
Charlene Villaseñor Black is professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, associate director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, editor of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and founding editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (UC Press). Her research focuses on the art of the early modern Ibero-American world as well as contemporary Chicanx visual culture.
This program is co-sponsored by César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Department of Art History at UCLA.
Image: Artist(s) unknown (Mexico), Retrato (portrait) of M.R.M. (Most Reverend Mother) Sor (Sister) María Ángela de la Purísima Concepción, 19th century; paint, canvas, wood, metal; Fowler Museum at UCLA, X87.6a; Gift of Dorothy M. Cordry in memory of Donald B. Cordry
