2017

VISITING SCHOLAR

Thursday January 26, 2017 | 6 pm

UF School of Art + Art History

400 SW 13th St, Gainesville, FL 32611

Fine Arts B Lecture Hall, Room 103

Free and open to the public

YISSEL ARCE Yissel Arce is a professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Xochimilco, Mexico. She has also taught in the Graduate Program of Art Studies at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City and the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Havana. She has served as editor of the newspaper Cuban Art News and the magazine CubanArt at the Cuban National Council of Fine Arts. In 2001, she received the Guy Pérez Cisneros Award for Art Criticism for her article “Someone has to Wake Up the Ostrich,” about the works of Sandra Ramos.

CUBAN VIDEO ART: Political Insularity and Visual Trajectories of Displacement