IUPLR & UTEP PRESENT
LATINO ART NOW! 2026
RADIANTEs FRONTERAS: VISUALIZING THE PERIPHERY AS CORE
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Thu, Nov 19 • 08:00 AM – 05:00 PM
All-Day Registration
LOCATION:
El Paso Community Foundation
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Caribbean and Diasporic Latinidades
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Community through Collaboration: Dominican York in the Diaspora
- — Los Portraits: Centering ADAL'S Documentary Practice in His Oeuvre
- — Scherezade Garcia: Border Projects of Land and Sea
- — Diasporican Ecologies: Boricuas of Boerum Hill
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Collaboration and Co-Creation
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Periferia Gráfica: Connection, Reflection, and Memory
- — Gazed Upon: The Latina Street Vendor Body in Chicanx-Latinx Art
- — Nuestra Cosecha: Failure, creative esfuerzos, and visual sovereignty in community-engaged muralización
- — What Happens When Printmaking Leaves the Studio? Storytelling, Community Building, and the Democratization of Art
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Reframing the Cultural Borderland: Art, Curatorial Practice, and the Politics of Self-Representation
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Ancestral, Hybrid & “Interspiritual” Spiritual Practices in Contemporary Hemispheric Latinx Art
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Tlacuila Visions (2026): A "Chicana Legacies Collaborative Codex Project" (Rice, Cervántez, Herrera Rodríguez, and Pérez)
- — Contemporary Codices: Burnt Water and Other Spirit Stories From the Earth
- — Interspiritual Experimentation in the Tarot de Aquaria and I Ching of Rene Rebetez
- — Artist Books of the Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Peripheral Visions: Queer Brown Aesthetics, Border Mythologies, and the Art of Survival
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Facing Change: Reassessing Mexican Mask Collections through Curatorial and Artistic Interventions
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
A Walk Through the Borderlands
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Nuclear Art and Chicanx Communities
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Queer Aesthetics, Materiality, and Embodiment
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Chicle in the Stomach: Indigestible Queerencias and Trans-Mestiza Hauntings
- — Embroidery: The Haptic, Somatic, and the Relationship of Queer Bodies
- — Plasty: Adoption, Desire and Liberation from Authenticity in the Work of Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez
Thu, Nov 19 • 11:35 AM – 12:45 PM
We Have Been Building All Along: Latinx Art and the Infrastructures of Belonging
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Lunch Break
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Art, Identity, and Community in the Latinx Midwest
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Luis Jiménez in the Frontera
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Abject Practices: Women, Cultural Knowledge, and the Politics of Belonging
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Curating Chicana Elders
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Chicano, Post-Chicano, Latinx, and Rasquachismo: Art Terms That Define, Divide, and Unite
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Intersecting Worlds: Mexican American Identity, Art, and Pedagogical Tranzas in the U.S.-Mexico Border
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Material Memory and the Domestic
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — The Place Between: Domestic Space, Protection, and Borderland Memory
- — Outlaw Paper: Sandy Rodriguez's Resistance Map of the Gulf of Mexico
- — Reimagining the Domestic Through Memory
- — Traditional Fiber Practices in Columbia's Caribbean Region: Exploring Behavioral, Culture, and Social Correlates Using the Buen Vivir Framework
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Migration, Labor, and Mourning
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Picturing the Family Across Borders: Guadalupe Maravilla and Arleene Correa Valencia
- — The Politics of Walking: Art and Migration as Strategies of Resistance
- — More Than a Victim, Less than an Enemy: how contemporary artists who center migrant workers in their practices humanize their experiences
- — The 'Constant Presence of Absence' at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Honoring Migrant Death through Participatory Art
Thu, Nov 19 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Sycoraxia: Yoruba Ontology and the African Matrix in Latin American Art
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Problematizing the Border: Challenging the Notion of a “Healthy” Border
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Latina Artists X Labor: Storytelling and Manual Labor as Praxis by NENAS
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Aqui Estamos: ArteLatinX and Community Building in the Great Plains
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Geographies of Labor and Sights of Memory in Latinx Art
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Intersections and Influences: Museum Exhibitions on Rasquachismo and Domesticana
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
A Handbook of Latinx Art
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
GIVE IT BACK NOW!!!!: The National Museum of Mexican Art’s Repatriation Program with México of Ancient Mexican Artifacts
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Latinos Who Lunch Live Recording from LAN
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Ancestral Futures: Re-Visioning Chicana/Latina Art, Memory, and Worlds
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
- — A Chicanafuturist Re-Vision of Chicano Muralism in Alma Lopez's Maria de Los Angeles
- — Rematriation of Latino Art Now!: Tracing Matrilineal Ancestry in the Art of Celia Herrera Rodriguez
- — Even Coyolxauhqui Dreams: Interior, Liminal, and Exterior Worlds of Judith Hernandez's Art from the 1980s
Thu, Nov 19 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Techs-Mex: Technology, Culture, Speculative Futures in Latinx Art
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Thu, Nov 19 • 06:30 PM – 09:00 PM
Opening Reception
LOCATION:
UTEP
Fri, Nov 20 • 08:00 AM – 05:00 PM
All-Day Registration
LOCATION:
El Paso Community Foundation
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
The Borderscape Archive Project: Fostering Student Visual Exploration in the Paso del Norte Borderlands
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Centro de Artes: A Decade of Art, Culture, and Community in San Antonio, Texas
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Decolonizing the Future, Present, and Past through Performance Art: The Awaited Return of Los Anthropolocos Collective to Latino Art Now!
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Voces y Visiones: Borders reimagined from the El Paso artists of Soy de Tejas
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Latinx Abstraction: Rethinking the Core/Periphery
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Abstraction in Gilbert "Magu" Luján's Decolonial World of Magulandia
- — Abstraction in Relation
- — Erick Calderon's Generative Art Project, Chromie Squiggles
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Public Space, Muralism, and the Border City
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Puerto Rican Muralism: Decolonial Aesthetics and the Politics of Place
- — Visualizing the Borderlands: Murals, Memory, and Spatial Histories
- — Neon Frontiers: Nightlife, Mobility, and the Reorganization of Production in Ciudad Juárez 1980 – 2010
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Testimonies in Public Space: Art, Censorship, & Collective Healing
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Where Culture Organizes: Community-Based Art, Storytelling, and Gathering as Infrastructure
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Chicanx/Latinx Art and the Teachings of Community
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 11:45 AM – 12:55 PM
Plenary #1: How to… worldmaking in a time of unraveling
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Lunch Break
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Spiritual Practice and Ancestral Knowledge
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Dreams, Curanderismo, and Votive Pedagogy: Fragmenting the Spiritual in Santa Barraza's Work of the 1980s – 1990s
- — Queen of the Waters, Mother of the Land of the Dead: Homenaje to Tonantzin/Guadalupe
- — Tlaltecuhtli-Two Spirit Bundle: Re-membering the Queer Earth Through Xicanx Indigeous Investigative Art Practice
- — The Aesthetics of Undocumentedness in Federico Cuatlacuatl's Nahua Futurism
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Colonial Encounters in Latinx Art
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Creative Practice as Research Method
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — The Border as Relationship
- — Woven Borders: Chicanx and Latinx Fiber Art as Alternative Data Cultures
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Image, Medium, and the Limits of Art History
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Gilding the Golden Age: Cinema, Painting and History in Raúl Guerrero's "Film Movie" Series
- — Exhibiting Rasquachismo: Black Velvets at the Michigan History Museum
- — Categorical Instability, Willie Varela, Audiovisual Collage, and the Limits of Museum-based Art History
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Photography and the Lived Border
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Skate for Change: Norma Ibarra's Photography and Indigenous Skateboarding as Decolonial Praxis
- — Staging re-orientations in the work of Arlene Mejorado
- — La Frontera/A Way to Survive
- — Visual Counter Narratives at the US-MX bridges
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Movimiento Legacies: Indigeneity, Ideology, and the Visual Record
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Political/Border Art
- — Chicana and Chicano Movement Proclamations of Indigeneity through Artistic Expression at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, 1969 – 1985
- — Portadas de Aztlán: The Music Album Cover Art of Movimiento Music
- — Oppositional Consciousness: Chicana Feminist Methodologies, Testimonios, and Spiritual Art as Decolonial Resistance
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Memory in Public: Latinx Art as Resistance in Minneapolis
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Art, Pedagogy, and the Classroom
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
- — The Bridge to the Barrio: The Activist Art Pedagogy of the Royal Chicano Air Force
- — MAS Zines, MAS Dreams: South Texas Memory & the Art of Community Publications
- — From Classroom to Credit Roll: Borderland Filmmaking, Cultural Production, and Latino Creative Pathways in El Paso
- — Documentary Representation of Latinos in the News Media: Journalistic Functions to Reduce Mis/Disinformation
Fri, Nov 20 • 02:15 PM – 03:30 PM
Collecting, Archives, and Institutional Memory
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Museums, Migration, and Memory: Collecting and Curating Migrant Belongings in the U.S. Southwest
- — Mexican American Art Since 1848 (MAAS1848): An Update
- — Latine Zine Collectives and Their Archival Afterlives
- — Invisible Borders: The Architecture of Belonging
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Returning to la frontera: Latina Theatrical Practice at UT-El Paso
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Tierra Suelta Contra Narrativas Estéticas en el Trabajo de Artistas de Segunda Generación en Ciudad Juárez / Aesthetic Counter Narratives in the Work of Second-Generation Artists in Ciudad Juárez (Simultaneous interpretation provided)
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Dreams in Spanish: A Collaboration Between Art and Design
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Canon and Legacy: Rereading Foundational Artists
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — The "Artist Warrior" as a Vision for a New Borderlander: The Life and Art of Mago Gandara
- — "Rupert Garcia: The Making of an American Artist – A Testimonio"
- — YO SOY CHICANO: The Voice y la Luz de Malaquias Montoya
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
A Movement Milpa: Generations of Mujeres de Maíz and Xicana Ancestral Art & Innovation over 50 years
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Latina/o Art: On Collecting and Being Collected
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Icons and Symbols of the Borderland: Cesar A. Martinez, Un Bato del Movimiento in dialogue with Diana Molina
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Contested Ground: Border as Womb and Intersection
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 03:45 PM – 05:00 PM
Cultivating Abundant Futures: BIPOC Women Leaders Building Youth Arts Futures
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of History (EPMH)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 05:00 PM – 06:30 PM
Artists in Conversation: Adriana Corral and Vincent Valdez
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Fri, Nov 20 • 07:00 PM – 09:00 PM
Sin Fronteras: Gilberto Cárdenas (1947 to 2026)
LOCATION:
Bowie Bears Grocery Printshop
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Hemispheric Approaches to Latinx Art History
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Curatorial and Artistic Approaches in Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Unsettling land-based relations through lens-based practices
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Bordering the South Valley: Art, Community Memory, and Counter-Histories in Albuquerque
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Art Against Enforcement
LOCATION:
Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)
Presentations & Speakers
- — Chico MacMurtrie's Inflatable Robotic Border Crossers: Pneumatic Disobedience, Military Technology, and Fronterizx Resilience
- — From Viral Phenomenon to Movement: Art, Activism, and the Rise of the Frog as a Symbol of Anti-ICE Protest
- — A Healing Stop: Transforming Bus Stops into Spaces of Processing and Reclamation
Sat, Nov 21 • 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Plenary #2: El Paso Artistic Showcase Luz que Perfora: Arte e Identidad en la Frontera, una conversación con Olga Guerra y Marco Sánchez (Simultaneous interpretation provided)
LOCATION:
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA)
Presentations & Speakers
Sat, Nov 21 • 03:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Border Clásicos
LOCATION:
San Luis Contemporáneo
Presentations & Speakers