Appreciating Art as a Mestizo American by Paul e. Kimball III, 2024 Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP) in Museum Studies, Art of the Spanish Americas, Blanton Museum of Art Back to Blog The Americas: North, Central, and South. Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish. Turtle Island and Abya Yala. Different names are given to this land where nature, […]
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Beneath the surface of Belkis Ayón’s Vamos by Catalina Cherñavvsky Sequeira, 2022-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Prints and Drawings, Blanton Museum of Art Back to Blog Three years ago, the Blanton acquired Vamos (Let’s Go) by the prolific Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). This was the second work by the artist to enter the
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5 Works that Explore Black Diasporic Memories February 2024, by Maysa Martins, 2023-24 Modern and Contemporary Art Fellow, Blanton Museum of Art Back to Blog In the essay “The Site of Memory,” African American author Toni Morrison metaphorically describes the sweeping forces of memory through a depiction of human intervention into the path of the
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Las Hermanas Iglesias: The Deities in the Details June 2023, by Itza Cantera-Guerrero, Spring 2023 Marketing & Communications Intern, Blanton Museum of Art Back to Blog As someone who loves looking at tiny details and conducting research, I was immediately drawn to the nine collages in the Blanton’s Contemporary Project exhibition by Las Hermanas Iglesias,
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