Voces y Visiones
Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
March 2, 2013 - July 7, 2013
Feature Gallery
Launching a long-term collaboration with New York’s El Museo del Barrio—the leading Latino cultural institution in the U.S. dedicated to Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean art—the Nevada Museum of Art presents a wide-ranging and diverse survey of their stellar art collection. This lively exhibition presents more than fifty objects including sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, and mixed media installations addressing themes such as identity politics, colonialism, emotional connections to homeland, and contemporary visual culture. Artworks created by living artists are contextualized with a concise selection of ancient Taίno stone carvings.
Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York, was jointly organized by the El Museo del Barrio and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Major sponsorship provided by IGT. Media sponsorship provided by Entravision.
Related Programs and Events
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Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
Friday March 1, 2013 / 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Members are invited to be the first to view this lively exhibition of Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American art. Live music performed by the local band, Ritmo Ardiente. A cash bar featuring a signature mojito, beer and wine will be available. $5 Kids Open Art Studio available from 6 to 8 pm.
Support provided by NV Energy.
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Educators' Evening: Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York and Frohawk Two Feathers 'And Those Figures Through the Leaves. And That Light Through the Smoke,' Part Two of "The Americas"
Thursday March 7, 2013 / 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Local educators are invited to a special reception featuring Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York and Frohawk Two Feathers 'And Those Figures Through the Leaves. And That Light Through the Smoke,' Part Two of "The Americas." Join Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education Colin M. Robertson for an introduction to these exciting exhibitions.
Light refreshments will be served and registered participants will receive any related materials for use in the classroom based on themes found in the exhibition. Please note, classroom resources will be designed for K-6th grade, though may be adapted for other grades.
Reserve a space for this event by emailing Jacque Dawson. Please include your name, school and grade level.
Space is limited and preference is given to Northern Nevada public school teachers. Private and home school educators will be registered as space permits.
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Meet the Artist: Cecile Chong on Voces y Visiones
Friday March 29, 2013 / 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Cecile Chong is an Ecuador-born, New York-based mixed media artist whose work addresses ideas about cultural assimilation and individual identity—prominent themes in the exhibition Voces y Visiones. Join a conversation with Chong about the entanglement of culture, history, place, and interpretation, and how we are all more alike than different from one another.
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Rocío Aranda-Alvarado on Voces y Visiones
Friday April 19, 2013 / 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
El Museo del Barrio Curator Rocío Aranda-Alvarado discusses the Latin American cultural and art historical contexts of highlights from Voces y Visiones.
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Tamara Kostianovsky on Meat, Sculpture, and Identity
Friday May 17, 2013 / 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
New York-based Argentine artist Tamara Kostianovsky explores ideas about identity, geography, culture, and history in her fabric sculptures of meat. Join her for a dialogue about her remarkable art in Voces y Visiones.
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Brown Eyes Theater Presents "The Vagina Monologues", en Español
Sunday May 19, 2013 / 7:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Museum welcomes Brown Eyes Theater for a Spanish language production of "The Vagina Monologues" in coordination with Voces y Visiones. Hear the famed monologues in Spanish, practice your listening skills, and support this important play. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to an organization fighting violence against women in northern Nevada.
$12 / $10 Museum members | Buy Tickets
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Miguel Luciano on Pimp my Piragua and Contemporary Latin American Art
Friday June 7, 2013 / 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Miguel Luciano’s bicycle-based work Pimp My Piragua activates public spaces on a neighborhood scale. Hear from Luciano about the contexts for which this work has been created. Then come back on Saturday, June 8 for Second Saturday and see it in action.
$10 / $0 Museum members | Buy Tickets
