22/08/2022
💕👾💕 Tuesday, August 23, I’ll be joining a group of baddies to talk about publishing from an immigrant perspective. NY come thruuuu🫧
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: ‘Publishing from an Immigrant Perspective’
Join us August 23 from 6:30–8pm for a conversation held in conjunction with ‘Lizania Cruz: Every Immigrant Is a Writer/Todo Inmigrante Es un Escritor.' The artist will speak with Adriana Monsalve and Emmy Catedral, who are immigrant publishers, writers, and artists.
The conversation will center publishing as a practice and tool for highlighting the immigrant experience, and will close with a poetry reading by writer and curator Serubiri Moses.
✨About the speakers✨
Adriana Monsalve (she/they) is an artist, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press.
Emmy Catedral is an artist and writer. She is co-librarian of the Pilipinx American Library and former Fairs & Editions Coordinator at Printed Matter, Inc and Curator of Public Programs at Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA). Emmy is a Butuan-born, Queens-raised first generation immigrant.
Serubiri Moses is an independent writer and curator. He co-curated the fifth edition of the contemporary art survey, ‘Greater New York’ at MoMA PS1 and was Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, where he taught contemporary African and Black art history. Since 2018, he has served as faculty for independent art education platformsz
Lizania Cruz (she/her) is a Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how migration affects ways of being and belonging. Her work has been exhibited at BronxArtSpace, New York City; Project for Empty Space, Newark and ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, among others.
See you there!
Image caption: Lizania Cruz, ‘We the News archive material’, 2017-22, project information, story circle plans and diagrams, dimensions variable. Photo by Shark Senesac