Join us online or in person for a special event celebrating the exhibition "Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas." This first exhibition of colonial Latin American art at Cornell considers the profound impact of colonization, evangelization, and the transatlantic slave trade in the visual culture of the Spanish empire. The works of art and student research from the Spring 2024 course that developed the exhibition recognize the creative agency and resilience of Indigenous, Black, and mixed-race artists during a tumultuous historical period bookended by conquest and revolution.

The program will begin in the Robinson Lecture Hall with Andrew Weislogel, the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art, and Juliana Fagua Arias, PhD student in the History of Art, providing a brief overview of the exhibition’s conception, development, and resulting research. This portion will also be live streamed; click here to join the webinar (pass code: 035110).

Then, in-person visitors can join Cornell student curators in the exhibition gallery on Floor 1L as they share what they learned and contributed, with a reception to follow.