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Ya Mero (Almost There) [Exhibition]
Join us this spring for the exhibition Ya Mero (Almost There) featuring works by Karla Diaz and curated by Mia Lopez. Visit the 20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor Gallery through May 15 (Tuesday-Friday, 11am-5pm). The exhibition is free and open to the public with RSVP. Non-NYU guests can click here to schedule their visit.
About the Exhibition
Ya Mero (Almost There) is a declaration of imminent arrival. Los Angeles-based artist Karla Diaz has made work about her life for over twenty years. Through painting, drawing, and performance, she documents life’s tragedies and triumphs, calling upon her own lived experiences and the stories of friends, family, and community. Her works evoke a sense of dream-like recollection, giving form to ephemeral emotions and remembrance.
About the Artist in Residence
Karla Diaz is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist who engages in painting, installation, video, and performance. Using narrative to question identity and institutional power, and to explore memory, her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. Notably, she is the co-founder of the collective and community artist space Slanguage. Critical discourse is central to her practice as she explores social, subcultural, and marginalized stories.
As a stroke survivor, she practices repetitive memory exercises, using drawing as a tool for excavating and retaining information. Personal memories, folklore, familiar iconography of her Mexican heritage, and American pop culture are intertwined in surreal compositions that consider family, loss, and the complexities of the Latinx experience in the United States.
Diaz was born and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and a BA from California State University Los Angeles in 1999. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ICA Boston, Hyde Park Art Center, Serpentine Galleries (London), and Museo Casa de Cervantes (Valladolid, Spain). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Art Matters, Tiffany Foundation, Riverside Art Museum, and CalArts. Her work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Inhotim Museum (Brumadinho, Brazil), among others.
To learn more about Karla Diaz, read her Q+A with the curator here.
About the Curator
Mia Lopez is the inaugural Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked with artists and leading contemporary art institutions across the United States for over 15 years. She recently curated the exhibition Rasquachsimo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility and co-curated the exhibition Synthesis & Subversion: Redux at Ruby City. Lopez has previously held curatorial positions at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibitions and publications she has contributed to include Remember Where You Are, LatinXAmerican, and International Pop. Lopez is an alumnus of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute. She holds a BA in Art History from Rice University and dual MAs in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Supporters
Ya Mero (Almost There) are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
Trans Caribbean: Queer and Trans Arts, Rights, and Activism
Photography of Compañerx, the performance at Plaza Bolívar, Bogotá, July 2024. Part of the series Compañerx, created alongside stylist Lorena Maza, writer César Vallejo, and trans activists Juli Salamanca and Yoko Ruiz. Photography by: Camila Falquez Martinez
As trans rights and embodiment are under attack in the United States, trans activists and legal activists are advancing a broad trans rights agenda across the Caribbean. Colombia’s proposed Ley Integral Trans, for instance, aims to protect the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals, while ensuring their full equality and participation in all areas of society. Meanwhile, like millions of others, queer and trans people in the Caribbean have historically lived across and beyond national boundaries. Our invited guests discuss their experiences of advocating for trans rights, sustaining creative practice, and convening community while crossing gendered, legal and geographic boundaries. The conversations will be accompanied by performances that illustrate the complexity of living life across boundaries.
The daylong program is made possible with support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), The Latinx Project, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS), Hemispheric Institute, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, Espacio de Culturas, and the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD).
11am On Colombia’s Ley Integral Trans
The first panel, focused on the struggle for rights, recognition, and equality in Colombia, stages a conversation between Liga de Salud Trans activists Juli Salamanca Cortés and Yoko Ruiz and their artistic collaborators, photographer Camila Falquez and author Cesar Vallejo. Moderated by Professor Bel Olid (U. Chicago).
2pm Trans Caribbean Artistic, Social and Legal Movements
The second panel examines the Trans Caribbean through its artistic, social, and legal movements through a conversation with advocate and program strategist Dane Lewis, interdisciplinary artist and dancer Edrimael Delgado Reyes, installation and performance artist Carlos Martiel, and Black Trans Liberation activist Qween Jean. Moderated by Professor Leo Douglas (NYU Liberal Studies). This panel threads together experiences that cross Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the United States.
4pm Performances & Reception
The closing reception features performances by poet Suzanne Persard, poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes and artist Edrimael Delgado Reyes. Persard is published in the poetry anthology I Will Not Go: Translations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals (Kaya Press, 2024), and Holnes is published in When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (U. Arizona Press, 2023).
2026 Graduate Research Symposium
Please join The Latinx Project Graduate Student Working Group (GSWG) on February 20, 2026 for our second annual symposium at New York University. Inspired by a set of topics salient to the inquiries of Latinx studies, Black studies, performance studies, and queer of color critique, The Latinx Project GSWG Symposium will engage with scholarship that speaks to the world-making activity that happens in and with the dark.
We are the People Who Leap in the Dark convenes twelve graduate students from across the country to present on narco-politics, border and state-sanctioned violence, tattoo and surveillance culture, Caribbean portraiture, activism in California’s Inland Empire, Afro-Latinx DJing, and more. Together, these presentations will lead us in new directions through discussions of visual art, literature, performance, activism, resistance, and alternative modes of survival and being. Our symposium will take place on February 20, 2026 from 10AM to 5PM.
Symposium Schedule: February 20, 2026 | 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Breakfast (Open to all)
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Welcome/Opening Remarks: Daisy Quiñones and Orlando Ochoa, Jr.
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote: Angel Lartigue, curatorial and artistic researcher
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Panel I: Dark Disorder Media(ted)
Alexa De La Fuente (Yale University), “Esto no lo puede tener nadie”: Disrupting Mediated Fears of Barbaric Figures within Narco-Satanist Narratives
Hernan Sanchez Garcia (Tufts University), “Soy Darks”: Disrupting Borders Through Subculture, Media, and Performance Across the Americas
Ana Herrera (New York University), Miedo a la obscuridad: Darkness in Mariana Enriquez
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Panel II: Cuts, Scars & the Minoritarian Body
Brenda Vega (The University of Texas at Dallas), The Scarring Body: Phenomenologies of Pain and Healing in Chicano/x Latino/x Performance Art
David Salinas (New York University), From Stigma to Strength: Rethinking Latinx Tattoo Culture Under State Surveillance
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch (Open to all)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Panel III: Making Light, Making Shadows
Edward Gia (The University of Texas at Austin), Living in the Land of What Matters
Sarah Diaz (New York University), Obscuring the Body: The Embodiment of Resistance in Caribbean Portraiture
Soledad Aguilar-Colón (New York University), “Killing Depression”: Silhouettes of Black Continuum(s) Through Cenen Moreno’s Work
3:10 PM - 3:55 PM
Panel IV: Art & Intimacy Amidst Destierro
Inés Anleu Gil (University of Texas at Austin), “Entre el cráter y el cuerpo”: Unearthing desire in Mena Guerrero’s practice
Celeste Navas (University of California, Davis), “Roses at a Riot Squad”: Grassroots Art Spaces amidst Displacement in San Bernardino
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Panel V: Improvising Otherwise
Odalis Garcia Gorra (University of Texas at Austin), “More Than Just a DJ”: Pleasure, Power and Sacredness in Afro-Latinx DJing
Giovanna Querido (Columbia University), Spiraling Blues: Black Musical Practices from the Mississippi Delta to Rio de Janeiro’s Pequena África
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
About GSWG
The Graduate Student Working Group at The Latinx Project fosters a collaborative environment for networking, professional development, and community. GSWG is open to graduate students at NYU, area institutions, and independent scholars looking for community. Please join us for our upcoming events and subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates relevant to graduate students.
Karla Diaz in Conversation with Mia Lopez (Virtual)
As part of the current exhibition Ya Mero (Almost There), you’re invited to join us for an online conversation featuring artist in residence Karla Diaz with curator Mia Lopez. Please RSVP using the link below to receive the Zoom link.
About the Exhibition
Ya Mero (Almost There) is a declaration of imminent arrival. Los Angeles-based artist Karla Diaz has made work about her life for over twenty years. Through painting, drawing, and performance, she documents life’s tragedies and triumphs, calling upon her own lived experiences and the stories of friends, family, and community. Her works evoke a sense of dream-like recollection, giving form to ephemeral emotions and remembrance.
About the Artist in Residence
Karla Diaz is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist who engages in painting, installation, video, and performance. Using narrative to question identity and institutional power, and to explore memory, her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. Notably, she is the co-founder of the collective and community artist space Slanguage. Critical discourse is central to her practice as she explores social, subcultural, and marginalized stories.
As a stroke survivor, she practices repetitive memory exercises, using drawing as a tool for excavating and retaining information. Personal memories, folklore, familiar iconography of her Mexican heritage, and American pop culture are intertwined in surreal compositions that consider family, loss, and the complexities of the Latinx experience in the United States.
Diaz was born and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and a BA from California State University Los Angeles in 1999. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ICA Boston, Hyde Park Art Center, Serpentine Galleries (London), and Museo Casa de Cervantes (Valladolid, Spain). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Art Matters, Tiffany Foundation, Riverside Art Museum, and CalArts. Her work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Inhotim Museum (Brumadinho, Brazil), among others.
To learn more about Karla Diaz, read her Q+A with the curator here.
About the Curator
Mia Lopez is the inaugural Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked with artists and leading contemporary art institutions across the United States for over 15 years. She recently curated the exhibition Rasquachsimo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility and co-curated the exhibition Synthesis & Subversion: Redux at Ruby City. Lopez has previously held curatorial positions at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibitions and publications she has contributed to include Remember Where You Are, LatinXAmerican, and International Pop. Lopez is an alumnus of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute. She holds a BA in Art History from Rice University and dual MAs in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Supporters
Ya Mero (Almost There) are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
2026 Latinx Film Showcase
The Latinx Project at NYU and Cinema Tropical present the third edition of the Latinx Film Showcase, a one-day series celebrating the remarkable work of U.S. Latinx filmmakers taking place at the NYU Cantor Film Center. The day begins with UVALDE MOM, followed by ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION and closes with MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY DILE QUE NO SOY MALO).
The screenings are free! Join us for one screening or the full day. Seating is first-come, first-served.
Schedule
(Please RSVP for each film individually)
12:00pm UVALDE MOM
3:00pm ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION with Director Q+A
5:15pm MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY DILE QUE NO SOY MALO)
About the Films
UVALDE MOM
(Anayansi Prado, USA, 2025, 89 min. In English)
Uvalde Mom tells the extraordinary story of Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm worker and single mother who risked everything to save her two sons during the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. While nearly 400 armed officers waited 77 minutes to act, Angeli ran into the school, pulled her children to safety, and became a viral symbol of courage. Speaking out against law enforcement’s inaction, she faced intense harassment from authorities seeking to discredit her. Award-winning director Anayansi Prado (Maid in America, The Unafraid) delivers a heart-wrenching portrait of Angeli’s relentless fight for justice as Uvalde grapples with systemic failures and conflicting narratives, deepening the town’s grief and anger.
ASCO: WITHOUT PERMISSION
(Travis Gutiérrez Senger, USA/Mexico, 90 min. In English)
Executive produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, Travis Gutiérrez Senger’s engrossing, genre-defying debut feature explores the revolutionary Chicano art group ASCO, who transformed 1970s LA into a bold, defiant canvas. Merging activism with radical artmaking, the artistic collective confronted the norms of Hollywood, museums, and media, and have since been recognized among the 20th century’s most significant artists. ASCO: Without Permission, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best U.S. Latinx Film, captures their boundary-breaking spirit with an inventive approach, weaving nonfiction and fiction together with a new generation of artists. The result is more than a profile—it’s a reimagining of what’s possible in art and cinema, celebrating iconoclasts who were decades ahead of their time.
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY DILE QUE NO SOY MALO)
(Joel Alfonso Vargas, USA, 2025. 100 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles)
In a tight-knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico spends the summer hustling—selling bootleg “nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls with reckless abandon. When his teenage girlfriend, Destiny, starts crashing at his place with his family, their small apartment becomes the stage for a love that is as messy as it is intense. Writer-director Joel Alfonso Vargas turns his hometown into the heartbeat of his acclaimed debut feature, teaming up with street-cast talent Juan Collado and Destiny Checo to deliver a raw, deeply authentic slice-of-life portrait. Winner of a Special Mention for Best U.S. Latinx Film at the Cinema Tropical Awards, the film captures with humor and grit the chaos, charm, and unexpected twists of youthful life in a city that waits for no one.
About Cinema Tropical
New York-based Cinema Tropical is a non-profit media arts organization that has become the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the United States. Visit their website to learn more.
Burning the Mask: Exhibition Opening
The Latinx Project invites you to the opening of our spring 2026 Curatorial Open Call exhibition, titled Burning the Mask, curated by Patricia Encarnación. The opening will take place on March 19, 2026, at 20 Cooper Square in the first-floor gallery.
About the Exhibition
Featuring works by Abigail Lucien, Brenda Barrios, Coco Fusco, Emmanuel Massillon, Hazel Batrezchavez, Jeffrey Meris, Karlo Ibarra, Lizania Cruz, Sergio Forero, Vincent Valdez, and Yvette Mayorga, the exhibition foregrounds practices that confront imposed identities by metaphorically “burning” the mask: acts rooted in ancestral memory, embodied authenticity, and radical love.
To learn more about curator Patricia Encarnación, read the Q+A with TLP
About the Curator
Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Caribbean, New York City–based interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in multiple residencies, including The Shed, Smack Mellon (as a Van Lier Fellow), MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kovent Catalonia, and the Silver Arts Project at the World Trade Center. Their work has been recognized by CIFO, the NALAC Fund for the Arts, and the Centro León Jiménez Biennial, where Encarnación received the City of Cádiz (Spain) cultural immersion prize and a second fellowship in Martinique through the Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Exhibitions of their work include Documenta 15, the Tribeca Artists Award Program, the Hudson River Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the NADA Art Fair, and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). In addition to actively exhibiting, Encarnación has pursued curatorial projects at New York University (NYU), the Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), the Bronx Museum, ChaShaMa, WOPHA Miami, and alternative gallery spaces in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. Encarnación earned a full-tuition scholarship for a BFA at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and was awarded the MacCracken Fellowship for graduate studies in Caribbean and Latin American Museum Studies at New York University.
Supporters
The center’s spring exhibitions are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
Black Diasporican Memory and the Archives of Slavery
Join us for a presentation by this year’s MJR fellow Daniel Morales Armstrong, a retelling of the emancipation story in PR through the archival records of the formerly enslaved people who redefined the meaning of freedom in the colony. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Ashley Coleman Taylor (UT Austin), Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, and Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, which will focus on how Black Puerto Ricans in the diaspora are writing about and reckoning with the legacies of slavery in our work across disciplines/genres. This conversation – largely about memory as well as methods – will have a particular focus on engagement with the archives through traditional and non-traditional means. The event will conclude with a call to action for the audience to engage the archives of Puerto Rico with an appropriate, person-centered ethos of care - and the sharing of resources aimed at increasing access to those archival collections.
RSVP link forthcoming
Thumbnail image title: "Santa Isabel Contrato de Liberto #252 (María Josefa), 20 June 1873"
Source: Records of the Spanish Governors of Puerto Rico Collection, Box 74, Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Spring Celebration & Fundraiser
We invite you to attend our fourth Spring Celebration & Fundraiser to celebrate and advance The Latinx Project’s work uplifting art, culture, and creativity on April 8, 2026, from 7:00-10:00pm at HK Hall (605 W 48th St). As a provostial center at New York University, we’re counting on our community’s support to ensure the sustainability of our distinguishing arts and culture programs into the future.
7:00pm Drinks
7:45pm Ceremony & Dancing with music by DJ Undocubougie
Festive Attire
Honoring Elia Alba, Gilberto Cardenas, and Nitza Tufiño
Tickets
Early Bird tickets are sold out. Please purchase your ticket to reserve your spot:
Artists & Cultural Workers: $100
Comadrx Community Sponsor: $300 (your ticket sponsors attendance for a community artist)
Friend of The Latinx Project: $500 (includes plus one)
Patron of The Latinx Project: $1,000+ (includes plus one)
Host Committee
Candida Alvarez, Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, William Camargo, C. J. Chueca, Gisela Colón, David Antonio Cruz, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Carlos Gutiérrez, Isabella Hutchinson, Michelle McVicker, Briana Mendez, Marysol Nieves, Pepón Osorio, Deborah Paredez, Marty Preciado, Kenny Rivero, Ronny Quevedo, Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Susana Torruella Leval, Karen Vidangos, Susanna V. Temkin, Carmen Rita Wong
Online Auction
The auction launches February 12, 2026, and features artists who have participated in past exhibitions at the center.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Support our arts programs by registering for this event through a tax-deductible contribution at the Friend ($500) or Patron ($1000+) level. Please feel free to email us with any questions or to learn more at latinxproject@nyu.edu.
All contributions directly support our arts and culture programs:
Artist in Residence program invites artists to participate in the NYU community and receive support to create a solo exhibition
Curatorial Open Call for exhibitions that explore issues of relevance to our evolving community
The Miriam Jiménez Román Afro Latinx Fellowship for scholars whose research advances the field of Afro-Latinx Studies
Public Humanities Fellowship offers NYC-area graduate students the opportunity to gain career-building experience with local arts and culture organizations
Intervenxions, an online publication featuring original writings, criticism, and interviews
To learn more about opportunities for sponsorship or major gifts, please email latinxproject@nyu.edu.
Deadline: Open Call for Artists
Artist in Residence
The Open Call for the 2026-2027 Artist in Residence will open in February 2026, and the deadline is April 13, 2025.
Pictured above is our spring 2024 artist-in-residence exhibition Histories We Carry featuring works by Estelle Maisonett.
Image Credit: Argenis Apolinario
Burning the Frame: Film Screening
Save the date for a film screening of the video works featured in Burning the Mask on April 16, 2026, with featured artists and the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition will be on view from March 20 through May 15, 2025 at 20 Cooper Square, 1st floor.
More details and RSVP forthcoming.
About the Exhibition
Featuring works by Abigail Lucien, Brenda Barrios, Coco Fusco, Emmanuel Massillon, Hazel Batrezchavez, Jeffrey Meris, Karlo Ibarra, Lizania Cruz, Sergio Forero, Vincent Valdez, and Yvette Mayorga, the exhibition foregrounds practices that confront imposed identities by metaphorically “burning” the mask: acts rooted in ancestral memory, embodied authenticity, and radical love.
To learn more about curator Patricia Encarnación, read the Q+A with TLP
About the Curator
Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Caribbean, New York City–based interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in multiple residencies, including The Shed, Smack Mellon (as a Van Lier Fellow), MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kovent Catalonia, and the Silver Arts Project at the World Trade Center. Their work has been recognized by CIFO, the NALAC Fund for the Arts, and the Centro León Jiménez Biennial, where Encarnación received the City of Cádiz (Spain) cultural immersion prize and a second fellowship in Martinique through the Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Exhibitions of their work include Documenta 15, the Tribeca Artists Award Program, the Hudson River Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the NADA Art Fair, and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). In addition to actively exhibiting, Encarnación has pursued curatorial projects at New York University (NYU), the Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), the Bronx Museum, ChaShaMa, WOPHA Miami, and alternative gallery spaces in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. Encarnación earned a full-tuition scholarship for a BFA at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and was awarded the MacCracken Fellowship for graduate studies in Caribbean and Latin American Museum Studies at New York University.
Supporters
The center’s spring exhibitions are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
Burning the Mask: Artist Panel (Virtual)
Save the date for a virtual artist panel on April 21, 2026, with featured artists and the curator of the exhibition Burning the Mask. Featuring works by 11 artists, the exhibition asks questions about assimilation and erased histories. The exhibition will be on view from March 20 through May 15, 2025 at 20 Cooper Square, 1st floor.
The RSVP for the virtual artist panel is forthcoming.
About the Exhibition
Featuring works by Abigail Lucien, Brenda Barrios, Coco Fusco, Emmanuel Massillon, Hazel Batrezchavez, Jeffrey Meris, Karlo Ibarra, Lizania Cruz, Sergio Forero, Vincent Valdez, and Yvette Mayorga, the exhibition foregrounds practices that confront imposed identities by metaphorically “burning” the mask: acts rooted in ancestral memory, embodied authenticity, and radical love.
To learn more about curator Patricia Encarnación, read the Q+A with TLP
About the Curator
Patricia Encarnación (she/they) is an Afro-Caribbean, New York City–based interdisciplinary artivist and scholar whose work challenges colonial tropes in Caribbean culture through an anti-colonial lens. Encarnación has participated in multiple residencies, including The Shed, Smack Mellon (as a Van Lier Fellow), MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kovent Catalonia, and the Silver Arts Project at the World Trade Center. Their work has been recognized by CIFO, the NALAC Fund for the Arts, and the Centro León Jiménez Biennial, where Encarnación received the City of Cádiz (Spain) cultural immersion prize and a second fellowship in Martinique through the Tropiques Atrium Caribbean art program. Exhibitions of their work include Documenta 15, the Tribeca Artists Award Program, the Hudson River Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the NADA Art Fair, and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). In addition to actively exhibiting, Encarnación has pursued curatorial projects at New York University (NYU), the Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), the Bronx Museum, ChaShaMa, WOPHA Miami, and alternative gallery spaces in NYC, Miami, and the Dominican Republic. Encarnación earned a full-tuition scholarship for a BFA at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and was awarded the MacCracken Fellowship for graduate studies in Caribbean and Latin American Museum Studies at New York University.
Supporters
The center’s spring exhibitions are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
Thumbnail: A still tongue keeps a wise head (detail), 2024, Jeffrey Meris
New Books: Latinx Studies at NYU Press (Virtual)
Save the date for an online panel conversation between scholars shaping Latinx Studies.
This program will highlight key trends in Latinx Studies while also promoting timely publications. Participants include Kelley Kreitz, Gina M. Pérez, Sujey Vega, and Peter Mancina, who will each present their recently published books by NYU Press.
Deadline: Public Humanities and Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship
Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship
The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship supports post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S. Applications open in March 2025.
Public Humanities Fellowship
TLP’s Public Humanities Fellowship will offer up to 10 graduate students at NYU and the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium the opportunity to gain career-building experience with local arts and culture organizations. Applications open in March 2025.
Spring Exhibitions: Closing Reception
Join us for a final open house marking the close of our spring exhibitions Burning the Mask and Ya Mero (Almost There). Light refreshments and sweets will be provided.
RSVP link forthcoming.
Supporters
Burning the Mask and Ya Mero (Almost There) are made possible with support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation.
Ya Mero (Almost There): Exhibition Opening
Event Recap
Our Spring 2026 Artist-in-Residence exhibition opened on January 30. Ya Mero (Almost There), is curated by Mia Lopez and features works by Karla Diaz.
The opening took place at 20 Cooper Square in the third-floor gallery. There were bites by La Morada and a performance by Mariachi Violeta.
About the Exhibition
"Ya Mero (Almost There) is a declaration of imminent arrival. Los Angeles-based artist Karla Diaz has made work about her life for over twenty years. Through painting, drawing, and performance, she documents life’s tragedies and triumphs, calling upon her own lived experiences and the stories of friends, family, and community. Her works evoke a sense of dream-like recollection, giving form to ephemeral emotions and remembrance." - Mia Lopez
About the Artist in Residence
Karla Diaz is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist who engages in painting, installation, video, and performance. Using narrative to question identity and institutional power, and to explore memory, her socially engaged practice generates exciting collaborations and provokes important dialogue among diverse communities. Notably, she is the co-founder of the collective and community artist space Slanguage. Critical discourse is central to her practice as she explores social, subcultural, and marginalized stories.
As a stroke survivor, she practices repetitive memory exercises, using drawing as a tool for excavating and retaining information. Personal memories, folklore, familiar iconography of her Mexican heritage, and American pop culture are intertwined in surreal compositions that consider family, loss, and the complexities of the Latinx experience in the United States.
Diaz was born and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and a BA from California State University Los Angeles in 1999. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ICA Boston, Hyde Park Art Center, Serpentine Galleries (London), and Museo Casa de Cervantes (Valladolid, Spain). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Art Matters, Tiffany Foundation, Riverside Art Museum, and CalArts. Her work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Inhotim Museum (Brumadinho, Brazil), among others.
To learn more about Karla Diaz, read her Q+A with the curator here.
About the Curator
Mia Lopez is the inaugural Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked with artists and leading contemporary art institutions across the United States for over 15 years. She recently curated the exhibition Rasquachsimo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility and co-curated the exhibition Synthesis & Subversion: Redux at Ruby City. Lopez has previously held curatorial positions at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibitions and publications she has contributed to include Remember Where You Are, LatinXAmerican, and International Pop. Lopez is an alumnus of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Leadership Institute. She holds a BA in Art History from Rice University and dual MAs in Art History and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Supporters
Ya Mero (Almost There) are made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Curatorial Fund.
Writing Fashion
Image Credit: Lujo Depot, styled by Keyla Marquez
Writing Fashion explores the dynamic field of Latinx fashion through the lenses of cultural studies and visual culture. Bringing together scholars and writers, it examines how fashion has been approached as a site of identity formation, resistance, and cultural expression. Panelists will discuss key trends, influential texts, and emerging theoretical frameworks—ranging from decolonial critique and embodiment to gender, race, and class analysis—that shape the study of Latinx fashion today. By foregrounding fashion as a powerful mode of visual storytelling, this conversation highlights its role in both challenging and reimagining dominant narratives within and beyond the fashion industry.
Event Recap
Participants
Isael Andrade is a cultural researcher, writer, and community maker whose work bridges fashion, identity, and equity. Isael’s research explores the preservation and reading of cultural dress practices within Chicano communities. Highlighting the continuity of cultural values through dress and as a tool that communities use to respond to their social conditions. Isael currently works with the Virgil Abloh “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund to support emerging Black talent in the fashion industry while expanding the Fashion Scholarship Fund's equity initiatives.
Aída Hurtado is Distinguished Professor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As a social psychologist, she applies intersectional feminisms to the areas of Chicana fashion and dance performance. She combines the writings of Black feminist scholars, Chicana feminisms, social identity theory, and Anzaldúa’s Borderland Theory to expand understandings of ethnic, racial, and gender formations. Her books include Intersectional Chicana Feminisms: Sitios y Lenguas (2020), and meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction (2020, co-edited with Cantú). Professor Hurtado spoke at the 2017 and 2018 Women’s March.
Keyla Marquez is a Los Angeles native, born in El Salvador, whose work sits at the vibrant crossroads of fashion, culture, and storytelling. As the Fashion Director-at-Large for LA Times Image magazine, fashion stylist and creative consultant, Marquez brings an instinctive eye for style and narrative to every project she touches. Rooted in her Los Angeles upbringing, Marquez is driven by a deep commitment to spotlight historically marginalized voices, using fashion as a language to tell stories that are bold, authentic, and unapologetically human. Her creative vision has come to life across editorials, music videos, runways, commercials, television, short films, and campaigns.
Michelle McVicker is Associate Collections Specialist at the Antonio Ratti Textile Study and Storage Center at The Met. She previously worked at El Museo del Barrio, The Museum at FIT, The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and The Costume Institute. As a collections care professional, her research interests include how material culture, specifically clothing, embodies Latinx representation within the United States. She has published academically on fashion history, intangible heritage, and how to proactively intervene gaps within museum costume collections.
Escenas: Exhibition Closing & Reception
Join us December 4, 2025 from 5-7pm for a closing celebration of Escenas. There will be a small reception and an opportunity to chat with the curators of the exhibition. Light bites and drinks will be served.
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Supporters
Escenas is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the New York University Office of the Provost.
Thumbnail Image
Diana Guerra, The New Generation, 2022
Anthotypes made with purple corn on watercolor paper.
3 components of 15” x 11” each
Image Credit: Pat Garcia
GSWG Symposium: Open Call
The Latinx Project’s Graduate Student Working Group Symposium: Open Call
The Latinx Project Graduate Student Working Group (GSWG) invites applications from graduate students (MA/MFA/PhD) for our second annual symposium at New York University. Inspired by a set of topics salient to the inquiries of Latinx performance studies, Black studies, and queer of color critique. The Latinx Project GSWG Symposium seeks contributions that speak to the world-making activity that happens in and with the dark. More than a term that has historically been used to index racialized and abject categories, we approach the dark as an aesthetic mode, a tool for the creation of alternative geographies, a time for intimacy and resistance to be performed from deviant and presumably disempowered positions and spaces. What can practitioners of the dark teach us? How do we turn to the dark as a source of power and information? Where can the dark lead us?
Participants may choose to address the following topics, but are welcome to explore others
Geographic matters, practices, and struggles
Visuality and the politics of color
Nightlife aesthetics, textures, and architectures
Alternative spiritualities and otherwise worlds
Dark acoustics and subcultures
Negative affective worlds and atmospheres
Sensuality and viscerality
Science, technology, and media
Our symposium will take place in-person on February 20, 2026.
TLP at American Studies Association
The Latinx Project will participate in the Exhibit Hall at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Latinx Project will exhibit the Intervenxions print volumes as well as other publications. The ASA Exhibition Hall will be open the following days and times:
Thursday, November 20: 9:30am - 5:45pm
Friday, November 21: 9:30am - 5:45pm
Saturday, November 22: 8:30am-11:00am
Lunch Research Series: Melissa Aslo de la Torre
The Latinx Project is excited to host a brown-bag luncheon series to continue building the Latinx Studies community here at NYU. Join us November 12 at noon at 20 Cooper Square Room 101 for “Entre Nosotras Mismas: Interventions in Archival Practice from Archivo de la Memoria Trans” by Melissa Aslo de la Torre (Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, Spanish, and Portuguese Studies at Bobst Library).
This event is open only to NYU faculty, students, and staff. Please use your NYU ID to enter the building.
About
Melissa Aslo de la Torre is the Librarian for Latin American, Caribbean, and Spanish & Portuguese studies at New York University. She is a queer Midwestern Mexican memory worker and scholar whose research focuses on archival praxis among queer, lesbian, and trans communities in Latin America and in diaspora, exploring intersections of collective memory, visual culture, performance, and the digital. Melissa is a member of Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians.
Deadline: Nominate 2026 Honoree
Nomination for The Latinx Project Honoree (Spring 2026)
We would love to hear from you as we identify honorees to be recognized at our next Spring Party in April 2026. Please use this form to nominate one individual across regions, generations, or fields who excel in areas of arts, scholarship, criticism, or activism. Please feel free to self-nominate. Each person can only submit one nomination.
Past Honorees
2025: Edra Soto, C. Ondine Chavoya
2024: Juana Valdés, Tomás Ybarra Frausto
2023: Black Latinas Know Collective, Lorgia Garcia Peña, Amalia Mesa Bains, E. Carmen Ramos, Shellyne Rodriguez
Questions? latinxproject@nyu.edu
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Pitching 101: Arts and Culture Writing [Virtual]
Join Alex Santana and Yara Simón, editors at Intervenxions and freelance writers, for this guide on how to pitch publications. This virtual discussion will cover how to write an effective pitch, find your niche, and target publications. We will present sample pitches, break down what Intervenxions is looking for, and offer tips and tricks to help you stand out to any publication.
Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. Currently based in New York but originally from Newark, NJ, she has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Joan Mitchell Center, Mana Contemporary, and Alexander Gray Associates. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at NYU.
Yara Simón is a Nicaraguan-Cuban-American editor, journalist, and author who has worked in Latinx media for more than a decade. Currently the deputy editor at Intervenxions, she is particularly passionate about covering topics that explore the Central American diaspora. She resides in Los Angeles with her daughter and husband.
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Photographers in Conversation: Vernacular Images [Virtual]
Event Recap
Please join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 6:30pm for "Photographers in Conversation: Vernacular Images." This panel discussion features the artists of Escenas--Andina Marie Osorio, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras--and will be moderated by the co-curators Orlando Ochoa, Jr. and Xavier Robles Armas.
"Photographers in Conversation" will take place online via Zoom and will explore the making of vernacular contemporary photography.
Escenas is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the New York University Office of the Provost.
Lunch Research Series: Dr. Cloe Gentile Reyes
The Latinx Project is excited to launch a brown-bag luncheon series to continue building the Latinx Studies community here at NYU. Join us October 15 at noon at 20 Cooper Square Room 101 for the first presentation: "Taíno Timbres: Dreaming Afrofutures, Sounding Indigenous Presence in La Sista's 'Anacaona'" by Dr. Cloe Gentile Reyes (Faculty Fellow, CAS Music).
This event is open only to NYU faculty, students, and staff. Please use your NYU ID to enter the building.
Abstract
La Sista's music video for her song "Anacaona" acts as an entry point to recall the often-forgotten history of Boricuas in U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, as well as the implementation of these genocidal assimilationist educational models on the island through U.S. colonial rule. My paper ruminates on how this living history impacts Indigenous modes of sounding, as well as how, in La Sista's case, rap and drums act as modes of language and music revitalization that open portals to the Dreamspace and in effect queer time. Through a decolonial and ancestral listening praxis, I hear La Sista's voice undoing what Maria Lugones calls "the coloniality of gender," ultimately enabling the reggaetónera to engage in resuscitative labor that conjures the Taíno Kasika, Anacaona, in the present moment.
About
Dr. Cloe Gentile Reyes is a Boricua writer, educator, and songkeeper. She is currently a Faculty Fellow in the CAS Department of Music at NYU. Her writing and teaching center Indigenous epistemologies of sound and embodiment at the intersections of race, gender, and disability. Her first book project, Sounding Sucia: Disabling Coloniality through Rap & Reggaetón, navigates how queer Indigenous peoples are disabled by coloniality but engage with rap and reggaetón as forms of ancestral memory to disarm coloniality in return.
Detention and Deportation
Join the NYU Migration Network for a full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles—past, present, and future. Through four panels with scholars, journalists, policy experts, and activists, we’ll examine how these practices shape US politics and immigration policy, from the historical roots of detention to the latest technologies of enforcement, and the on-the-ground organizing happening in New York City today. This event is co-sponsored in part by The Latinx Project and other centers and institutes.
NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public.
Accessibility note: If you have any access needs, please email migration-network@nyu.edu.
Panel 1: The politics and policy of detention and deportation under Trump 2
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT
This panel sets the stage for a discussion of detention and deportation in the context of today’s politics and policies. Together, the panelists will help us make sense of the impact of this administration’s policies on the lives of immigrants and the way that a politics of detention and deportation is reshaping the United States of America.
Featured Panelists:
Adam Cox (New York University)
Muzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute)
Tanya Greene (Human Rights Watch)
Miriam Jordan (New York Times)
Moderated by Natasha Iskander
Panel 2: History of detention and deportation
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
This keynote discussion will situate this unprecedented moment in the context of the contemporary history and geography of detention and deportation in immigration enforcement.
Featured Keynote Speaker:
Alison Mountz (University of Toronto)
Moderated by Radha S. Hegde
Panel 3: Technologies of detention and deportation
1:30pm-3:00pm
This panel focuses on the technologies and infrastructure of detention and deportation, from digital surveillance to the bureaucratic structure of ICE, to the financial institutions embedded in the business of detention.
Featured Panelists:
Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University)
Matthew Guariglia (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Nancy Hiemstra (Stony Brook University)
William Turton (Propublica)
Moderated by Aisha Khan
Panel 4: Activists in NYC
3:15pm-4:00pm
This panel brings together activist organizations and student groups to discuss the work that they are doing on the ground to support New Yorkers who are vulnerable to detention and deportation. The discussion will include a know-your-rights training.
Photograph source: Library of Congress, photograph by Dorothea Lange
Conference: Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture
On Friday, October 10, The Latinx Project hosted a full-day interdisciplinary conference titled Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture. The gathering featured presentations by a range of scholars and cultural producers, each transforming contemporary visual culture, creative industries, and scholarship.
This event was made possible with support from the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Tisch Illumination Fund.
Event Recap
9:00am Breakfast & Registration
9:50am Welcome
10:00am-11:40am Panel: Media and New Technologies
Arcelia Gutiérrez (University of California, Irvine): The Case for Media Reparations
Harold J. Leonard Navarro (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras): Beyond Recognition: Black Bodies, AI, and the Aesthetics of Recognition
Michael Anthony Turcios (Northwestern University): Experiments with Burning ICE: Rage as Joy and Refuge
Nathan Rossi (Northwestern University): Digital Mestizaje, the Datafication of Latinx Identity, and the Political Economy of Brownness on TikTok
Ramón Resendiz (University of Oregon): Visualizing Archival Resistance: Producing Refuge & Justice through Documentary Media across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Moderator: Sharon De La Cruz (New York University)
11:50am-1:30pm Panel: Perspectives on Visual Art
Armando Perla (University of Montreal): Diasporic Aesthetics of Resistance: Indigenous Mesoamerican Museologies and the Visual Politics of Memory
Deanna Ledezma (University of Illinois Chicago): Lineages of Labor: Contemporary Latinx Artists at Work
Debbie M Duarte (Pitzer College): Alien Toy Takes a Joyride: Sensing Borderless Futurities
Joanne Gil Rivera (La Calle Loíza, Inc.): Somos Cangrejos: Mapa, Arte, Foro
Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (Howard University Gallery of Art): Africana Kairibe Malungaje: Futurist Reversed Memories
Moderator: Robert Hernandez (Fordham University)
2:30pm-4:10pm Panel: Joy and Embodiment
Andy Rafael Aguilera (Western Washington University): “It Means Good”: Resistance and Refuge in Latinx Streetwear Brands in the Age of Trump
Gabrielle Vazquez (Curator): Diasporican Queens
Jose Ferrufino (Industrial designer): Al mal tiempo, buena cara: The Making of Beauty
Odalis Garcia Gorra (University of Texas at Austin): Dancing at the Threshold: Joy, Resistance, and the Counter-Archives of Diasporican
Orquidea Morales (University of Arizona): Excess and Monstrosity: The Freedom and Pain of La Gordita
Moderator: Gabriel Magraner (The Latinx Project)
4:20pm-6:00pm Panel: Migration and Border Culture
Daniel J. Vázquez Sanabria (University of Texas at Austin): Return is/as Refuge: Crip Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Puerto Rican Cultural Productions
Jose Alaniz (University of Washington, Seattle): Out of the Chispaverse: Chispa Comics as ‘Militarized Border Visuality’
Kiri Avelar (University of Utah): Transnational Family Dance Lineages of the U.S./Mexico Bracero Program
Mikayla Hernandez Guevara (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): What a Border to Cross: Domesticana, Material, and Aesthetics of Migration in Shaping a Transcendent Chicana Identity
Taylor Seaver De La Fuente (University of Michigan): Lo Que Le Pasó al Valle
Moderator: Cristina Beltrán (New York University)
6:00pm-7:00pm Community Reception
Intervenxions: Vol. 4 Launch
Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair for the launch of Intervenxions Vol. 4. The issue will be available for purchase along with dozens of publications and art from independent creators. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., we’ll be serving special treats to celebrate the publication. Meet editors Yara Simón and Alex Santana as well as contributors to the publication. We hope to see you there!
Intervenxions is The Latinx Project’s digital publication. Since 2022, Intervenxions has published a printed volume to document the work of our collaborators. This year’s issue features 14 articles on materiality, palimpsests, and regeneration.
Intervenxions Vol. 4. is made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Ford Foundation, Critical Minded, and the Mellon Foundation.
La Feria: Print Media Fair
Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair on Saturday, September 27 at New York University featuring 45 exhibitors showcasing prints, posters, zines, art books and more. Free and open to the public!
Wikipedia NYC 400 Edit-A-Thon: Nueva Yol
Wikimedia NYC and The Latinx Project are hosting the Wikipedia NYC 400 Edit-A-Thon: Nueva Yol on Friday, September 19, 2025 from 5pm to 8pm at 20 Cooper Square, New York.
The program, coinciding with the Wikimedia NYC 400 campaign and Latinx Heritage Month, aims to create a space to uplift Latinx New Yorkers, histories, communities, and themes which should be on Wikipedia or might need a little update. No prior experience with Wikipedia is required to participate!
Bring a laptop or the editing device of your choice.
For inspiration, you can consult our growing Latinx Studies library which will be on display. Additionally, visit the photography exhibition Escenas. Snacks and refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.
Wikipedia edit-a-thons have emerged as a powerful tool for communities that are underserved by the lack of diversity among Wikipedia content editors.
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s Code of Conduct.
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Escenas Tours at 20 Cooper Live [Open House]
20 Cooper Live!
Centers & Institutes’ Open House
NYU students, faculty and staff are invited to join The Latinx Project and our colleagues for a dynamic open house! Meet the curators of Escenas and tour the exhibition, Escenas, on September 10 from 3-6pm.
Did you know that 20 Cooper Square is home to over a dozen Provostial Centers and Institutes at NYU? We invite all NYU students, staff, and faculty to visit our current exhibitions, and learn more about the Centers and Institutes' and groundbreaking research and programming. There will be snacks and refreshments for all!
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 20 Cooper Square
3:00 - 6:00 pm
First Floor:
Center for Black Visual Culture’s exhibition Reflections in Black: A Reframing, on view until 6:00pm.
The Grey Art Museum’s exhibition June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will be on view. The Grey will also offer a curator tour of Handle with Care: Robert Rauschenberg's Ecological Conscience, featuring artworks from the NYU Art Collection, between 4:00 and 5:00 pm. The museum entrance is at 18 Cooper Square.
Meet leaders from the Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Remarque Institute, Scholars at Risk, and NYU Production Lab in Room 101.
Second Floor:
The Grey Art Museum will have a table with student interns and Student Friends Committee representatives.
Third Floor:
Make buttons using images from the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (A/P/A) special collections, which document A/P/A history, art, and communities. Learn about our programs and initiatives for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.
Enjoy apple cider and snag signature merch with team members of the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL). Learn more about our upcoming programs, including the Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC and our book club series.
Visit the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) table to meet our staff and graduate students, pick up a free tote bag, explore our Fall 2025 event calendar, and more!
Tour The Latinx Project’s new photography exhibition Escenas with curators Orlando Ochoa and Xavier Robles-Armas until 6:00pm and meet student leaders.
The Center for the Study of Africa and African Diaspora (CSAAD) will have a table with event flyers/brochures printed for the fall events; Spring research opportunities (pre doc & post doc fellowships); as well as merch and events information.
Fourth Floor:
Come meet with SCA staff to discuss classes and opportunities within the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.
Fifth Floor:
Meet with members from the Center for the Humanities to learn about our fellowship programs and opportunities for research and collaboration across NYU.
Meet Hemispheric Institute staff and visit the Institute’s exhibition Huracán Architectures, with photographs by Ruben Natal-San Miguel.
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) hosts a book talk at 5:30pm discussing Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism.
Come meet with staff from The Center on Violence and Recovery to learn about our research and programs.
Escenas: Exhibition Opening
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Escenas [Exhibition]
The Latinx Project at New York University announces Escenas featuring the work of seven emerging lens-based artists. Activating the third floor gallery space of 20 Cooper Square, the exhibition debuts with a public opening celebration on September 5, 2025 and closes on December 04, 2025
“Escenas features the work of seven contemporary photographers—Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras—based across New York, Georgia, California, and the Dominican Republic. Utilizing performative self-portraiture, anthotype, feminist archival practices, and other strategies, the lens-based artists explore the embodied and relational texture of documenting life as they maneuver racialization, migration, and diaspora. By repurposing material, space, and time, Escenas invites us to contemplate how we hold and are held by the past through practices that allow us to sense, activate, and revere connections with moments that have presumably expired. Escenas presents scenes of life unfolding—a room where personal and collective histories touch and move across times and geographies. ”
- Orlando Ochoa, Jr.
Escenas spotlights the vibrant work of Andina Marie Osorio, Arlene Mejorado, Ashley Peña, Damon Casarez, Diana Guerra, José Ibarra Rizo, and Steven Molina Contreras.
Open Call: Academic Book Showcase
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.