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Omaha, NE – 12/09/08 Program begins at 6:00 PM in Joslyn’s Abbott Lecture Hall with Michael Girón, Professor of Art and Gallery Director, Bellevue University Beginning in the 1920′s, the Mexican Muralist Movement was an integral part of the cultural renaissance which occurred in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, and had profound social and political impact in Mexico and beyond her borders. Join us for a look at the Mexican Muralist Movement and several of its leading artists, especially “Los Tres Grandes”: Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siquerios and Diego Rivera. Michael Girón holds an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and BFA from the University of New Orleans and is currently Associate Professor of Art at Bellevue University and Metropolitan Community College. Since 2005, he has instructed a lecture and studio course called Mexican and Contemporary Murals – the focus of which is the Mexican Mural Movement, especially Los Tres Grandes: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Prof. Girón’s parents fled to the U.S. from Cuba in 1962. His current effort to learn his parent’s native tongue has pulled him further into all things Latino. He is currently finishing a series of moveable murals, executed with Latino students, centered on the many faces of Latino identity. Tickets: $10 Joslyn Members; $15 General Public. Tickets will be available at the Museum, online or at the door; advanced reservations are encouraged. Revealing Rivera is inspired by the diversity of works in Joslyn’s special exhibition Diego Rivera and presents a variety of perspectives from local and national scholars and artists. Each event in the series includes exhibition viewing. For more information about this and other programs in the series, please contact Joslyn’s Associate Curator of Education (402) 661.3862. Other programs in the series include: * Sunday, November 9, 12:00 PM, The Art of True Fresco, workshop with Margaret Hennessey-Springe, independent artist and art historian, Lawrence, Kansas (Registration Required) Bellevue University hosts diverse exhibit of area Latino artists By: Michael Joe Krainak Every year Bellevue University hosts one or more art exhibits with a social, political or cultural theme. “Arte Latino,” a richly diverse display of local Latino artists, recently opened in January and continues until March 5 in the Hitchcock Humanities Center on campus. The show includes paintings, works on paper, sculpture and ceramics, most of which reflect a Latino heritage both contemporary and historical, often in the same work. Participating artists in “Arte Latino” include Higinia Tapia, la Familia Manriquez (David, Marc, Bonnie, Dion and Aron), Freddy Rincon, Bernardo Montoya, Ariadna Mota, Carlos Mota, Aldo Soto, Yulianna Dominguez, Lorenzo Joaquin and students of Omaha South High School. As expected in a group show of this size and degree of experience, quality varies, but what doesn’t is the commitment to the exhibit’s major themes and a growing Latino influence on the future of American art, culture and politics. “The growth of the Latino population in the U.S. has had a tremendous impact in all three areas,” said curator Michael Giron, BU’s gallery director, “with immigration from Latin America being the hot button issue.” Despite this “Arte Latino” is not overtly political, choosing instead to showcase local artists and let their work speak for itself. “The art mainstream, though international since WWII, has been extremely selective in the area of Latino artists,” Giron said. “Locally, I suspected there were more Latino artists than those represented in local galleries. Not to say that discrimination is afoot. A courting period might be necessary if a viable connection between artists and sales galleries are to take place.” In keeping with any educational mission Giron believes that this “courting period” should begin in school. “A show like this benefits our students,” he said, “especially the Mexican and Contemporary Murals class currently in session. We strive to educate about the bounty of cultural diversity here at BU and the gallery does this through art.” Regardless of the level of talent in “Arte Latino,” what unites it may be best expressed in Dave Manriquez’s artist statement. “I pull from my heart, my heritage and life experiences. My art will always reflect ‘con alma’ (Latino soul) regardless of the image I put on canvas.” Those images reflect an interesting duplicity, a love of one’s cultural past often expressed in the new notions of “patria” (nation) and in modernist terms. “In effect,” Giron said, “Latino artists have cyclically rejected European-based artistic traditions in favor of styles and themes tied to the indigenous cultures.” It’s a new identity built by melding of the Mestizo (Spanish and Indian) tradition with revolutionary determinism, centuries of struggle against foreign colonization and subjugation, including by the United States. To read the rest of the article, visit: OmahaCityWeekly.com |
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