Art History
A Writing Roundtable on Publishing and Fellowships with Dr. Veronica Muñoz-Nájar
October 2024
The Center for Latin American Arts hosted A Writing Roundtable on Publishing and Fellowship opportunities with Verónica Muñoz-Nájar, Thoma Foundation Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas and Dr. Katherine McAllen, Director for the Center of Latin American Arts. Dr. Muñoz-Nájar is a specialist in Latin American art history and has conducted research and published on artistic production in Perú, Colombia, Bolivia, Spain, and Italy from the Early Modern to Contemporary periods.
CLAA Roundtable Event: Peru’s Bicentenary
February 2021
The CLAA hosted a virtual roundtable examining art and identity in Peru from the colonial era to the Republican era to the present day.
“Peru’s Bicentenary: Materiality, Invisibility, Erasure, and Reinvention” rethinks the narratives that have constructed Peruvian Art in the year of the 200th anniversary of Peru’s Independence. This roundtable will explore how artists, architects, and patrons established their power and identity within the colonial context and the period after Independence. It aims to fracture the art history canon and incorporate regional and popular art discourses, as well as create dialogues that visualize them within the museum sphere, to present new contributions to the field within a revisionist perspective.
Art History faculty Katherine McAllen in the School of Art has organized field trips for students to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art in 2017 and 2018 to view the Nelson Rockefeller Latin American collection. The Art History faculty are currently developing a new Master of Arts degree in Latin American Art History under the leadership of Robert Bradley and Constance Cortez. In 2018 and 2019, Art History graduate students Daniel Ymbong and Carol Lopez have won the prestigious UT System Archer Center graduate fellowship for two years in a row to study and intern in Washington D.C. and work as paid interns in museums such as the National Gallery of Art.
