X as Intersection: Live Memoir

The U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) is proud to continue the X as Intersection series, a four-part public program featuring conversations with fellows from the second cohort of the Latinx Artist Fellowship. 

X as Intersection: Live Memoir

Drawing from panelist Carmelita Tropicana's concept of Live Memoir, this panel invites participants to consider how autobiography, the archive, memory, and collective traditions inflect their cross-disciplinary artistic practices. Tropicana, Juana Valdez, Koyoltzintli, and Candida Alvarez will focus on particular chapters in their careers, and share their collective knowledge across decades of artistic practice.

Co-moderated by Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Susanna V. Temkin, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, and organized by the U.S. Latinx Art Form.

About the Panelists

Candida Alvarez is widely regarded as one of her generation's most highly innovative and experimental painters; her paintings and drawings are complex and vibrantly layered with color and shapes built from combinations of abstract and figurative forms rich in memory, painting history, and references to everyday life.

Koyoltzintli is an interdisciplinary artist, a healer and educator whose work focuses on sound, geopoetics, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling through collaborative processes and personal narratives. 

Alina Troyano, a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana, is a writer and performer whose work addresses political issues and looks at the intersections that exist between ethnicity, sexuality, gender, race and class using irreverent humor and fantasy as subversive tools. 

Juana Valdés is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice combines art media to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender, labor, and class in the Global South. 

This event is part of X as Intersection, a four-part virtual public program series featuring conversations with fellows from the second cohort of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, administered by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF) in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Learn more about the fellowship.