Pilar Tompkins Rivas on “You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography”
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Pilar Tompkins Rivas on “You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography”
Thursday, February 16
5:30 p.m. EDT
Pilar Tompkins Rivas is is curator of You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography, chief curator at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and guest editor of “Latinx,” the Winter 2021 issue of Aperture magazine.
This virtual event hosted by Art on Hulfish will focus on questions of visibility and belonging in the context of Latinx photography in the United States, exploring how photographers represented in the exhibition address place, people, and purpose. Monica Huerta, assistant professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University, will introduce the event and moderate audience questions.
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Image: Star Montana, Louisa, Cathy and Little Star, 2021. © Star Montana. Courtesy the artist and Aperture
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