Workshop: Ulises x Lizania Cruz
Building: SMFA Campus Location: Boston Fenway campus City: Boston, MA 02115 Building: SMFA Campus: Boston Fenway campus Location Details: Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts Wheelchair Accessible (for in-person events): Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience(s): Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk Subject: Arts/Media,Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: Tufts University Art Galleries Event Sponsor Details: Generous support for Tufts University Art Galleries programming is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. RSVP Information: Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshop-ulises-x-lizania-cruz-tickets-946457940177?aff=oddtdtcreator Link: https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/events/172-workshop-ulises-x-lizania-cruz Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and Ulises for a workshop with artist and designer Lizania Cruz in conjunction with the exhibition Ulises: Assembly. As part of Cruz’s long term project Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary, this workshop will guide participants on ways of questioning, recontextualizing, and creating new narratives based on a selection of the project’s archive. For the past five years, Cruz has been gathering archival evidence from historical archives, governmental and academic institutions, as well as on the streets with the public on how the state of the Dominican Republic repressing and erasing African heritage in the formulation of the Dominican identity. Cruz will walk participants through her relational methodology of archiving. Participants will also work on constructing a narrative of their own based on the archives. Materials will be provided.