Career Talk - Pathways to Art History: Building Equity in the Field with Ananda Cohen-Aponte, PhD

Описание: Pathways to Art History: Building Equity in the Field with Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University and author, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016)

Ananda Cohen-Aponte, PhD
Ananda Cohen-Aponte is Associate Professor of History of Art who works on the visual culture of colonial Latin America, with special interests in issues of cross-cultural exchange, historicity, identity, and anti-colonial movements. Her research and teaching also explores legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art. Her book, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes (University of Texas Press, 2016) explores the intersections between art, politics, religion, and society in mural paintings located in colonial churches across the southern Andes. This work draws on nearly a decade of archival and primary source research to understand the ways that artists appropriated European religious iconography to articulate local narratives, transforming the medium of muralism into a powerful barometer of indigenous and mestizo life under Spanish colonial rule. She also served as editor and primary author of the book Pintura colonial cusqueña: el esplendor del arte en los Andes/Paintings of Colonial Cusco: Artistic Splendor in the Andes, published as separate Spanish and English-language editions (Haynanka Ediciones, 2015). Her essays appear in a range of journals and edited volumes, including Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, Allpanchis, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, among others. She is currently conducting research on a new project that explores the role of the visual arts in fomenting an insurgent imaginary in late 18th-century Peru and Bolivia within a context of inter-ethnic conflict and rebellion.

Dr. Cohen-Aponte was recently awarded the 2019 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award for her commitment to undergraduate advising and has received recognition for ongoing efforts to create equity in the discipline of art history through a pilot project called "Pathways to Art History."

About Virtual Career Week | October 26-30, 2020
The Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective prepares Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College students for careers in the visual arts. Through a week of virtual panels, information sessions, talks, prizes and workshops students learn about careers in art history and curatorial studies.

About the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective
Future curators, art historians, museum professionals and artists all come together at the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective. Housed within the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College, this innovative program aims to shape the future of the art world and position the Atlanta University Center as the leading incubator of African American professionals in these fields. We are cultivating students who will seek knowledge, discover purpose and make change. Made possible by generous support from the Alice L. Walton Foundation, undergraduate students enrolled in this program are also eligible for scholarships and paid summer internship opportunities. Visit www.aucartcollective.org