Panel: “Pre-Latinx Art: The Veterano Avant Gardes”

Exploring the periods prior to the contemporary use of the Latinx term, this panel will discuss the important avant-garde contributions of artists working in the 1970s and 1980s. Panelists explore the lives of artists who immigrated to New York for political reasons, to study, or to create for themselves a new artistic life.

PARTICIPATING PANELISTS
Yasmin Ramirez, Independent Scholar
Deborah Cullen, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
Chon Noriega, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
Freddy Rodríguez, Artist
Perla de Leon, Artist

This event is part of the Charlas: Latinx Art and Artists: New York Edition series sponsored by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with The New School.

For more information, visit The New School website.

Image: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Loco local, 1975

Oil and collage on canvas

70 H x 100 W x 5 D in.

El Museo del Barrio, New York City

Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio