News
The Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies shared the news of the grant received for the project “Verdant Worlds: Exploration and Sustainability across the Cosmos” for which CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black will serve as a principal investigator.
A story on the UCLA Connections panel “Science, Facts, and the Public Debate” that took place on January 14. CSRC director Chon A. Noriega moderated the discussion.
The forthcoming exhibition Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures was named in a story about recent grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
CSRC co-founder and former director Juan Gómez-Quiñones was included in a story about Latinos who passed away in 2020.
A roundup of news stories includes a mention of Arlene Dávila’s op-ed in the New York Times. citing her references to the CSRC’s Latinx art advocacy.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, Arlene Dávila celebrated the U.S. House of Representative’s authorization on December 21 of the creation of a national Latino museum on the Washington Mall. In her piece, Dávila pointed to the CSRC’s study of the historic lack of Latino representation at the Smithsonian and mentioned that the CSRC hosted the first solo show by artist Ramiro Gomez.
The CSRC will be closed for business during the UCLA Winter Break. The CSRC will close Friday, December 18, 2020 and re-open for remote business only Monday, January 4, 2021. We wish you a safe holiday season.