Join us for this dynamic event featuring artist-in-residence Mildred Beltré in conversation with María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Mildred Beltré’s work is on view at NYU in the exhibition Allow Me to Gather Myself. María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ work is featured in the exhibition Behold at the Brooklyn Museum (September 15 - January 14, 2024) which spans nearly four decades.
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“Allow Me to Gather Myself” is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
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Mildred Beltré is a multi-disciplinary artist invested in grassroots activism, social justice, and political movements. Her work spans photography, print-making, drawing, text-based formats, and fiber arts. Across these diverse mediums, Beltré carries forth the legacies of revolutionary protests and civil rights movements, while bringing in elements of desire, pleasure, and humor. She is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine (BHAM), an arts initiative in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building.
Maria Magdalena Campos Pons “I claim space for women's issues, collecting and telling stories of forgotten people, in order to foster a dialogue to better understand and propose a poetic, compassionate reading of our time. My work over the past 35 years addresses Postcoloniality and the complexities that entangle the narratives, connections and mutual dependency of the North and the South. My work speaks to an ancestral knowledge and tradition to give a voice to the darkest narratives with grace and aesthetic elegance. Fragility, ephemerality, and a transient quality of time and place are visible components in my vocabulary, which I explore through video, film, photography, installation, and performance. I am compelled by the democratic process of art-making that challenges the participation, presence, and bodily immersion of the viewer.” - Maria Magdalena Campos Pons.
Urayoán Noel is Associate Professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, and has also taught at SUNY Albany and at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. He is the author of In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), the first book-length study of Nuyorican poetry, which received the LASA Latino Studies Section Book Prize and the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Honorable Mention. He has also published several books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and Transversal (2021), both with the University of Arizona Press, the latter of which was a New York Public Library Book of the Year and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Noel has been a finalist for the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award for his translations of Latin American poetry, and he is currently a translator for The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR). His international performances include Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Noel has published essays in New Literary History, American Literary History, Small Axe, Contemporary Literature, Latino Studies, CENTRO Journal, and in books such as The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature and The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature