Constanza Carballo
Echoes of Heritage, 2024
acrylic on polytab
96" x 120"
Nayalie Avalos
Two Faced, 2024
inkjet photo
48" x 48"
Lys Akerman-Frank
Hineni (detail), 2024
Mixed media
48" x 48" x 10"
Verónica Torres
"Lover Gaze Deep...", 2023
Mid-fire porcelain
9.25" x 7" x 7"
This weekend, the G. Murphy Gallery comes alive with DJ sets, performance art, and live mural painting during the opening reception for .
The exhibition features 42 Latina women and non-binary Latinx Minnesota-based artists with ancestral roots in Latin America, exploring a variety of media, methods, and themes that center and celebrate a diverse group of Latina and Latinx artists from across the state.
The show seeks to honor the contributions of Latina and Latinx artists to Minnesota’s shared past, present, and future cultural heritage.
“As a multicultural and collective expression, Latina and Latinx MN: Re/claiming Space in Times of Change breaks the barriers of assumption,” write exhibition curators Zamara Cuyún and William Gustavo Franklin Torres, St. 2024–2025 Amy Marie Sears Memorial Visiting Curators in Residence. “Embedded in each piece is the pride of being a Latina woman and a Latinx non-binary person, an experience often reduced to a social phenomenon by outsiders but affirmed here as an unequivocal historical, unifying and rich American condition.”
Opening Reception
Sept. 7, 5–8 p.m.
East and West Galleries, G. Murphy Gallery
5–6 p.m.: Music by DJ Maracuya
6 p.m.: Welcome and opening remarks
6:30 p.m.: Performance by Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra and live mural painting with Constanza Carballo.
7–8 p.m.: Music by DJ Maracuya
In concert with the exhibit, this fall the Gallery offers a wide variety of programming featuring the artists. Events range from workshops (shadow puppetry, printmaking) to moderated discussions around the artwork (family, LGBTQIA+ community, photography, art vandalism).
“The events have been designed in collaboration with our visiting curators in residence to deepen engagement with and education about the artists, artworks, and themes presented in the exhibition,” said Nicole Watson, director of the Gallery. “My hope is that our community enjoys this opportunity to interact with exhibiting artists directly, and learn about them and their work from their perspectives.”
About the Amy Marie Sears Visiting Artist Series
The annual Amy Marie Sears Memorial Visiting Artist Series invites distinguished artists and curators to St. for a short-term residency. This series was established in honor of Amy Marie Sears, a promising 1995 studio art major who passed away in 1997.