Guest Curator Initiative
La inmortalidad del cangrejo: Una conversación con Marta Perez-Garcia y Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia
March 26, 2021 5pm ET
En esta charla hablaremos sobre las técnicas, estéticas e imaginarios que atraviesan la obra de la artista puertorriqueña Marta Perez-Garcia. Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia es profesor de literatura y cultura de América Latina y el Caribe. Este evento es una colaboración entre Now Be Here Guest Curator Initiative (organizado por Patricia Ortega-Miranda), el departamento de Español y Portugués y la Galería de Arte (Art Gallery) de la Universidad de Maryland, College Park.
In this conversation we will discuss the techniques, aesthetics, and imaginaries that traverse the work of Puerto Rican artist Marta Perez-Garcia. Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia is Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Cultures. This event is a collaboration between Now Be Here Guest Curator Initiative (organized by Patricia Ortega-Miranda), the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park.
About
Marta Pérez-García is originally from Arecibo (PR), she was trained as a printmaker at the Tyler School of Arts – Temple University (MFA). Ms. Perez-Garcia is recognized in Puerto Rico for her color woodcuts where she won a number of awards such as the grand prize at the XIII San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Print in 2001, and where she exhibits in museums on a regular basis.
Since moving to Washington DC in 2008 Ms. Perez Garcia has been deeply involved in the propagation of the arts throughout the community through teaching and leading public art projects. She has been a yearly recipient of artist fellowships from the DCCAH since 2010 and was awarded Public Arts Building Communities Grants in 2018 for “I’m Gonna Get You” a (large mix-media installation on gender violence) exhibited at the Reeves Municipal Center, and again in 2020 for an upcoming mural. Recently, she has been experimenting with structural papermaking and was awarded the Vita Paper Arts Residency at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center in Hyattsville, MD (2021).
Her artworks are in collections such as the Library of Congress, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Puerto Rico among others. Her works also feature in prominent private collections such as the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, N.Y., the Colecciòn Reyes Veray, San Juan, PR, Colección Jaime Fonalledas, Plaza Las Amèricas, San Juan, PR. Group exhibitions include “Crossroads of the Caribbean, PAMM (Perez Art Museum of Miami), Miami, FL., and the 2014 Campechada in homage of her mentor Mirna Baez, at the Instituto de Cultura Puertoriqueña San Juan PR among others.
Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia is a Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Literature at the University of Maryland
Professor Quintero-Herencia taught at the University of Puerto Rico’s Department of Hispanic Studies, Rio Piedras, from 1992 to 2001 and was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate at Brown University’s Department of Hispanic Studies from 1998 to 2000. He is the author of Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana 1960-1971 (2002), Latin American Studies Association Premio Iberoamericano, La máquina de la salsa: Tránsitos del sabor (2005), and La hoja de mar (:) Efecto archipiélago I (2016). He is the editor of Caribe abierto ( ) Ensayos críticos (2012).
As a poet he is the author of El hilo para el marisco/Cuaderno de los envíos (2002), Pen Club of Puerto Rico Poetry Prize, La caja negra (1996), Libro del sigiloso (2012) and El cuerpo del milagro (2016). He was a founding member and coeditor of the journal of Puerto Rican poetry Filo de juego, and was also a member of the collective journal Nómada, and a contributor to the Puerto Rican journals bordes and Postdata.
Quintero-Herencia has held fellowships from the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña/National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
This project is supported in part by The University of Maryland Art Gallery.