Art Talk: The Art of Amalia Mesa-Bains

February 3, 2024 | 1 – 2:30 PM

Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.

TICKETS: Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public

*Ticket includes Museum General Admission

Hear from the organizing curator of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, María Esther Fernández, Artistic Director, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, as she discusses how they had to integrate understandings of the sources behind Mesa-Bains’ work, from the spiritual to the scientific, from the intricate and personal, to the rich polycultural creativity of her Mexican heritage.

About the Speaker:

María Esther Fernández is the inaugural artistic director of the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, which opened at the Riverside Art Museum, California, in June of 2022. Fernández has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions, including Xicana: Spiritual Reflections/Reflexiónes Espirituales in 2010 and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia in 2013. In 2019, she co-curated Xicanx Futurity with Carlos Jackson and Dr. Susy Zepeda at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. She has also curated a major retrospective of Judithe Hernández’s work set to open at The Cheech in February of 2024.