Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

Latin American Posters:

Public Aesthetics and Mass Politics

An exhibit at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, on view through March 4th, 2007, features 119 images from the nearly 10,000 strong Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, from the University of New Mexico Libraries.

                                                     "Day of Solidarity with the

                                                      People of Venezuela"

 

8/2006

Welcome to our new Curator of Latin American and Iberian Collections, Catherine Marsicek.

Catherine began her position as the Curator of Latin American and Iberian Collections at the UNM University Libraries on August 1, 2006.  (more)

 

4/2006

Shaping the Body: Abstraction and Naturalism

Beginning April 15, 2006, with a break from May 1 to July 15th because of the closing of Zimmerman due to fire, and continuing through August 15, 2006, the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room gallery will exhibit Shaping the Body: Abstraction and Naturalism in Ancient Mexican Art. This exhibition of object reproductions examines the various stylistic choices used by ancient Mexican cultures for art production. Consisting of twenty-three objects on loan from the Mexican Consulate of Albuquerque, Shaping the Body illustrates the abstraction and naturalism utilized in the arts of cultures from ancient Mexico. The objects represent eight cultures and date from 1200 B.C.E through the sixteenth century.

Meghan Tierney, MA candidate in Pre-Columbian Art History in UNM's Department of Art and Art History curated this exhibition as a Rogue Curator through UNM's P.L.A.C.E program. The exhibition is sponsored by the Consulado de Mexico, University Libraries' DILARES, P.L.A.C.E Program, Arts of the Americas Institute, and the Department of Art and Art History.

 

6/2006

Maria Hinojosa

As part of the University Libraries' new Summer Sunset Lecture Series, Maria Hinojosa will speak at 6:30pm on Saturday, June 24th in the SUB Ballroom A. Maria Hinojosa is managing editor and host of “Latino USA” on National Public Radio, and senior correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine “NOW.” Her topic will be “Stories from the Frontlines of American Journalism.  Immigration, Katrina and our Divided Country.”

Born in Mexico City, Hinojosa is a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College, where she majored in Latin American studies, political economy and women's studies. Hinojosa resides in New York City with her husband and their son and daughter.

 

10/2005

El Mundo del Quijote =
The World of The Quixote
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Publication of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

A timeline from 1571 to 1616 shows a selection of events that happened during Cervantes' lifetime. The chronology begins with1571, the Battle of Lepanto, in which Cervantes fought and was wounded, crippling his left hand. Included are some events from around the world, such as the 1610 designation of Santa Fe as the capital of the province. Another great writer lived during this time period, William Shakespeare, and both died in the same year, 1616. Most of this time period falls within the reign of Philip II also called the Spanish Golden Age which corresponds with the Elizabethan Age in England (more)

 

9/2004

Chiapas : Preserving Indigenous Rights & Culture

Exhibit co-sponsored and co-curated by University Libraries' Division of Iberian & Latin American Resources & Services-DILARES, Latin American & Iberian Institute-LAII: SOLAS, CLARO, RETANET, LADB and New Mexico State University Library and Anthropology Department.

 

1/2004

New Exhibit in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery

Mesoamerican Codices & their Depictions

Published, and reasonably accurate, reproductions of Mesoamerican codices began to appear in the 18th century. These were followed in the 19th century by more accurate, sophisticated lithographic edition, and in the 20th, by facsimiles reproduced through full-color-offset lithography. UNM's Latin American Collection holds more than 100 facsimiles, or exact replicas, of Mesoamerican Codices. This exhibit includes several rare, limited-edition facsimiles as well as one-of-a-kind hand-painted copies from Mexico.

1/2004

Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American
& Iberian Posters

Political poster from Panama that protests imperialism and advocates sovereignty in the use of the Canal Zone, 1979.

 

 

3/2003

Open Doors: Regional Scholars and Writers Series
Spring 2003

Wednesday, March 12, 3:00 p.m.
Willard Reading Room

1/2003

New Exhibit in Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery

 

 

12/2002

Mexican Popular Prints: José Guadalupe Posada

Calaveras de Coyotes y Meseras. 1906. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 15 x 23.2 cm. The broadside is adorned with four type-metal vignettes. [Print 999-019-0017]

Mexican Popular Prints Website Highlights Library's Collection

A website dedicated to the Center for Southwest Research’s extensive collection of Mexican popular prints will be launched beginning November 2, 2002. The inaugural date was chosen to coincide with the Mexican celebration of the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) because many of the prints feature the comical or satirical skeletal figures, called calaveras, which were popularized by José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1900.

The electronic archive was created to make the content of these works available to a large audience, while protecting the originals. The website includes nearly four-hundred images in the public domain which can be used without restriction. In addition, the site includes texts about the collection, the artists and publisher of the prints, and a scholarly bibliography. The URL for the Mexican Popular Prints electronic archive is: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/posada/.

Stella de Sa Rego, Curator of Pictorial Collections
Center for Southwest Research

9/2002

Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American
& Iberian Posters

Political poster from Panama that protests imperialism and advocates sovereignty in the use of the Canal Zone, 1979.

In April 2001, the Library acquired the International Archive of Latin American Political Posters, a major repository containing more than 10,000 images from Spain and Latin America, the great majority produced between the mid-1960s and the late 1990s, with a smaller number from earlier decades. Renamed the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, after its originator and long-time owner, the collection constitutes a unique visual and iconographic resource that helps document Latin American politics and social reality during a time of intense conflict and upheaval. Numerous overlapping themes can be studied in and through these posters, eg., political mobilization and mass communication, the growth of opposition to dictatorship and authoritarianism, the reemergence of democratic regimes, the movement for women's and indigenous rights, the "Americanization " of political advertising in Latin America, the promotion of human rights, literacy, public health, and environmental protection, and the trajectory of "revolutionary" art and poster design in contemporary Latin America and Spain.

 

6/2002

ASM Professor Receives Grant for Eco-tourism

Lake Miramar, the crown jewel of the Lacandon Rainforest

 

Chiapas

Dr Eddie Dry, Professor of Tourism Management, and Amy Culbertson, graduate student, of UNM’s Anderson Schools of Management received US Agency for International Development (AID) funding to assist a village in Chiapas, Mexico in learning how to manage and market their new eco-lodge. The funding was obtained through a farmer’s cooperative, Land O’Lakes, which has formed an international division to facilitate volunteer opportunities for their members to share their expertise with farmers from the rest of the world. The village, Ejido Emiliano Zapata, hopes that the six-room lodge will help generate income for its 168 residents from sustainable, self-determined, environmentally and culturally sensitive tourism. Traditionally dependent on agriculture, they have been severely impacted by globalization. “The Mexican corn market has been opened up to competitors, slashing prices for the corn produced by indigenous peoples of Mexico. They desperately need some other form of economic development besides agriculture”, says Dr. Dry. The primary role for Dry and Culbertson will be in helping the village realize the importance and dangers of unmanaged tourism development. Culbertson hopes to use her recently developed "ecotourism audit" to guide the village in building an economy that will preserve and protect the fragile rainforest ecosystems and the traditional culture of the area.

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