Please join us for a short presentation about the exhibition, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, a 2012 exhibition presented by El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. This information session is organized through a collaboration of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies of the CUNY Graduate Center and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies of Rutgers University,  El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

 

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

4:15-6:15pm

 

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th y 35th Street

Room 5382

 

–          Learn about the exhibition and museum resources available to students and faculty

–          Workshop ideas for integrating exhibition material into coursework and curricula

–          Learn about the exhibition directly from the curator

–          Hear about the symposium and related programming

–          Discuss the role of the exhibition in your teaching

–          Consider your role in creating exhibition resources

 

Following the presentation by the exhibitions curators and programming staff, we will open the floor for dialogue and feedback.  Coffee and light refreshments will be served.

 

This event is FREE and open to the public.

 

To RSVP for this event, please send an e-mail with your name and institutional affiliation to Victoria Stone-Cadena at vstone@gc.cuny.

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The New York City metropolitan area offers an unprecedented array of events, institutions, and cultural resources that can serve to enhance any course on Latino and/or Latin American issues. Given this richness of material, the question of how and in what ways to incorporate this into course designs becomes an issue of accesibility.

 

This exhibition will be opening at all three institutions in June 2012 and will remain on view through December. Caribbean: Crossroads of the World will be the first, comprehensive, pan-Caribbean project to examine the history and culture of the Caribbean basin and Diaspora. We hope that this exhibition will not only broaden the public’s perspective and knowledge about Caribbean culture but nurture a deep and long-lasting appreciation for the arts as well. By creating and expanding a much more inclusive understating of who is considered Caribbean as well as recognizing the plethora of races, ethnicities, and cultures that reside in the region, we hope to explicate the many connections that exist between various geographies and temporalities.

 

The programs which we hope to develop will help contextualize this exhibition beyond the visual arts and open up channels of communication through which we can provide greater exposure of Caribbean culture to a larger and more diverse audience. Hopefully, these programs will help contribute and foster a greater understanding and appreciation for Caribbean arts and culture.