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Astrid Fitzgerald: Emerging Symmetries

By Adriana Herrera Téllez, Ph.D. (Essay for the exhibition catalog | Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami. January 2015)   “For everything in which spirit has objectified itself contains something that is common to the I and the Thou”. Wilhem Dilthey   “We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity […]

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José Antonio Navarrete. Art Media, Miami.

Arte al Día International | Dec. 2014 By Willy Castellanos Translation Cora Sueldo. In an interview published in A Brief History of Curating, Lucy Lippard outlined certain motivations and challenges associated to critical thinking: “I’ve always been attracted by the impossibility of writing about visual art and that’s what tempted me to do it.” Perhaps […]

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Milton Becerra: “Wale’kerü. Líneas de luz”

By Adriana Herrera Téllez, Ph.D. (Essay for the exhibition catalog | Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami. November 2014) Milton Becerra, time traveler and explorer of vast territories, interweaves in his art forms derived from spatial-temporal sources which, being as diverse as they are distant, converge in a same revelation: they reflect the prodigious fabric of the universe. Thus, […]

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PABLO LEÓN DE LA BARRA OR CURATORSHIP AS LUDIC MANIFESTO

(Arte al Día International, Thursday, May 15, 2014) by Adriana Herrera Téllez Playfulness –in its most genuine and lighter expression, yet one that is capable of shaking our world imaginaries – is, like the shadow of Pablo León de la Barra, the new Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative Curator of Latin American Art, inseparable […]

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CRISTINA GARCÍA RODERO. MDC Museum of Arts & Design, Miami

by Willy Castellanos Published in Arte al Día International. April 2013 Translation: Cora Sueldo The photographic record of mystical feeling has been commonly addressed by the great religions of our contemporary world. These reiterated documentations have functioned as sorts of iconographies of faith, oscillating between references that range from the vast congregations at the Vatican and […]

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Interpretative Guided Tour: Weaving the Tension Between Nature and Urban Sprawl.

Interpretative Guided Tour: Weaving the Tension Between Nature and Urban Sprawl. Sunday, January 15, 2023 Alissa Alfonso, Sharon Berebichez, Nancy Billings, RemiJin Camping, Maritza Caneca, Mabelin Castellanos, Alex De Yavorsky, Jocelyn Flores, Amy Gelb, Isabel Infante, Jeanne Jaffe, Marlene Kohn, Oriana Lacau, Adriana Lo Mascolo, Aurora Molina, Vero Murphy, Juliana Navarro Torres, Cynthia Passavanti, Felisa Prieto, […]
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Unfolding Visions of Contemporary Mayan Art, a live lecture by Dr. Adriana Herrera in the context of the exhibition Tiempo Circular

The Aluna Art Foundation is proud to invite you to the live lecture “Unfolding Visions of Contemporary Mayan Art”, presented by Dr. Adriana Herrera in the context of the exhibition Tiempo Circular organized by Tanya Brillembourg Art with the support of the Guatemalan Consulate in Miami.
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Live Talk at Pinta Art Fair 2022 | Textile Art: Spinning the Political with Ancestral Practices

This PINTA TALK featuring fiber artist Pip Brant, Aurora Molina and Evelyn Politzer is moderated by Adriana Herrera PhD, cofounder of Aluna Art Foundation. They will discuss politically-charged fiber arts and ways of exploring the relationship between gender, history, and fiber ancestral traditions and its connection with contemporary textile art.
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Zoom Talk | Threading the City’s virtual panel discussion

The Circularity of Textile Time features art historian and Pre-Columbian Art experts Carol Damian, Ph.D., and Shelley Burian, Ph.D., moderated by Adriana Herrera, Ph.D. The discussion will explore the relationship between pre-Hispanic textiles and modern fiber art and examine the living presence of indigenous art not only in contemporary artists who are direct descendants of native peoples, but also in other Latin American artists, including some Miami artists who work with fiber.
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Florida Humanities and the National Endowments for the Humanities supports educational programing during Threading the City, a series of fiber art exhibits across Miami.

Florida Humanities awarded a Community Project Grant Award to Aluna Art Foundation for the public programming of Threading the City. Lead scholar Adriana Herrera, Ph.D., joins other invited scholars, including: Carol Damian, (…)
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