Noviembre 19 hasta Diciembre 4 Recepción: Viernes, 18 de noviembre 6 – 9 PM Horario de la Galería: de Martes a Sábado, 10 AM – 6 PM
The gallery will be closed November 24-25 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Retos y Retratos, an exhibition of portraits of Latino/a artists and samples of their work, strives to give a voice to the struggles, triumphs, and experiences of this community of artists in Memphis. Committed to different forms of expression, united by art and the challenges they have faced, these artists seek to preserve and communicate their roots. The portraits demonstrate both the artistic and intimate side of these creators.
Retos y Retratos es una muestra de arte Latino en Memphis que busca dar una voz a los procesos y experiencias de sus artistas. Entregados a diferentes formas de expresión, unidos por el arte y los retos alcanzados, estos artistas buscan conservar y comunicar sus raíces. Los retratos presentados nos muestran el lado artístico y a la vez intimo de estos creadores.
“Mi Sur/My South: A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis attempts to show a cross section of contemporary Latina/o artists creating artwork in the Memphis area. Mi Sur/My South is concerned with amplifying the artistic voices that have largely been ignored but are in fact and deed contributing to the changing demographic and cultural dynamic disrupting the once binary racial understanding of the South. This exhibition is part of the efforts of Centro Cultural (a Latina/o cultural center based at Caritas Village) to survey and document the artistic life and production of Latina/os in Shelby County. To this end, the Centro is additionally working to compile an Artist Registry that would include not only visual artists but all creative disciplines.
According to a 2012 paper, A Profile of the Hispanic Population in the State of Tennessee, researched and compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, “Latinos were the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in Tennessee during the last ten years.” In fact, the growth rate of the Hispanic population in Tennessee was the third-fastest in the nation. According to the 2010 Census, there were 290,059 Hispanic persons in Tennessee, representing 4.6 percent of the population. With Shelby County being home to a significant share of Tennessee’s Latina/o population it would be safe to assume that not only have Latina/os contributed to the economic growth of Memphis but to its cultural vitality as well.”
-Centro Cultural
Since the inception of the Centro in 2012 there have been annual exhibitions of Latina/o art in the Hope Gallery at Caritas Village, as well as a fruitful collaboration with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in producing the highly attended exhibition of Latina/o artists titled Memphis Vive.
Centro Cultural is proud to participate in partnership with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village, the Centro’s homebase, in organizing this exhibition.
“Mi Sur / Mi Sur – Una encuesta de Latinas / os artistas que trabajan en Memphis (Mi Sur) intenta mostrar una sección transversal de contemporánea Latina / o artista obra creando en el área de Memphis. Mi Sur / Mi Sur está preocupado con la amplificación de las voces artísticas que en gran parte han sido ignorados pero que son de hecho y de obra que contribuye a la cambiante dinámica demográfica y cultural interrumpir el entendimiento racial vez binaria del Sur. Esta exposición forma parte del Centro Cultural, una o centro de Latina / cultural basado en Caritas pueblo, los esfuerzos en la topografía y la documentación de la vida artística y la producción de Latina / o en el condado de Shelby. Para ello, el Centro está trabajando en un Registro artista que incluiría no sólo a artistas visuales, pero todas las disciplinas creativas.
De acuerdo con un documento de 2012 titulado “UN PERFIL DE LA POBLACIÓN HISPANA EN EL ESTADO DE TENNESSEE”, investigado y compilado por el Centro de Negocios e Investigación Económica de la Universidad de Tennessee: “Los latinos fueron el grupo racial o étnico de más rápido crecimiento en Tennessee durante los últimos diez años. De hecho, la tasa de crecimiento de la población hispana en Tennessee fue el tercero más rápido en la nación. Según el Censo de 2010, había 290,059 personas hispanas en Tennessee, lo que representa un 4,6 por ciento de la población. Con el condado de Shelby ser el hogar de una parte significativa de la población Latina / o de Tennessee sería seguro asumir que no sólo tiene Latina / os contribuyó al crecimiento económico de Memphis, pero a él es la vitalidad cultural.”
-Centro Cultural
Desde la creación del Centro en 2012 ha habido exposiciones anuales de Latina / o arte en la Galería de la Esperanza en Caritas Village. También hubo una muy fructífera colaboración con la Galería de Dixon y Jardines en la producción de la exposición altamente asistido de Latina / os artistas titulado, Memphis Vive.
El Centro se enorgullece de participar en sociedad con Crosstown Artes y Caritas Village, base de operaciones del Centro, en la organización de esta exposición.
Special thanks to the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst for their support of this exhibition and the partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural.
This one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or tamalero/a in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home.
All proceeds benefit Centro Cultural‘s mission and programming.
Join us for a presentation on muralism in international contexts with visiting scholar Guisela Latorre from the University of Ohio Department of Art/Department of Gender Studies. Her talk will explore her research around Chicana/o murals in California and muralism and graffiti in post-dictatorship Chile.
Guisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latina/o and Latin American art with a special emphasis on gender and women artists. Her first book titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (U. of Texas Press 2008), explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals from the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. Her other publications include “Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork” in the American Studies Journal (2012), “New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process” in Image & Narrative (2010), and “Icons of Love and Devotion: Alma López’s Art” in Feminist Studies (Spring/Summer 2008). Latorre’s recent research activities include the co-editorship of the feminist journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies and work on a second book project of the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era. She teaches classes on Latina/Chicana feminism, visual culture and Latina/o art.
Tamale Fest 2015 is the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis. The festival will have main stage live entertainment, a tamale team cooking contest, a tamale tasting tent, a kids’ activity corner, art vendors, food trucks and a photo booth.
The purpose of the Tamale Fest is to share and celebrate Latino culture, bring people together for a positive cultural experience and to raise money to allow Centro Cultural to expand their programs and administration.
Centro Cultural was founded in 2011 and has been operating as a 100% volunteer-run organization. Accomplishments to date include over 60 cultural workshops taught, 13 showcases celebrated, 6 art exhibits produced, collaboration with Dixon Gallery and Gardens produced the first contemporary Latino Art exhibition in Memphis, current development of a book based on immigrant stories in Binghamton and over 5000 hours of volunteer time given.
