Upcoming Events
Jovan C. Speller, Visiting Artist Lecture
Monday, March 18 at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
Jovan C. Speller (b. 1983) in Santa Monica CA, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minnesota. Her work uses photography, installation, sound, text, and mixed media visual works to interpret historic narratives through contemporary discourse. Her research-based practice is centered around elevating, complicating and inventing stories that explore ancestry, identity, and spatial memory.
Speller holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Her photographic works and installations have been published and exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and private collections internationally. She is a recipient of multiple grants and fellowships including the McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, and Minnesota State Arts Board grants. Speller was awarded the 2021 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Minnesota Art Prize.
Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol, Visiting Art History Scholar
Tuesday, April 2 at 5:30pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
Painting and Planting Counter-Narratives in the Landscape of the Conquest of Mexico
Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she teaches the history of ancient and early colonial Latin American art. Her current research deals with representations of food and consumption among Indigenous groups in sixteenth-century Mexico. She has published essays in leading art journals, and the University of Texas Press published her book, The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) published her co-authored book Don Antonio Huitzimengari: An indigenous noble in sixteenth-century Mexico. She is the recipient of several awards including two fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
