MUSEUM
EXHIBITION


WHERE:
 Riggs Library, Georgetown University
3700 O Street NW, Washington, DC 20057

Friday, April 4, 1 pm – 4 pm

Symposium:
The Life and Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín
Presentations in Spanish by:

Teresa Del Conde
Art Historian and Curator
Institute of Esthetic Investigation at
UNAM, México, DF

Ted Fischer
Director
Center for Latin American
and Iberian Studies
Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee

Michele Greet
Art History Professor
 George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia

Pablo Guayasamín Madriñán
Fundación Guayasamín, Quito

Pablo Guayasamín Monteverde
Fundación Guayasamín, Quito

Marco Antonio Rodríguez
President
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Quito

Joseph Mella
Director and Exhibition Curator
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery,
Nashville, Tennessee

Mónica Vorbeck
Art History Professor
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
USFQ
   
All events are free and open to the public.

For more information on these and other programs please call (202) 458-6016.


 


WHERE:
 Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

Tuesday, April 8, 12 noon
        Gallery Talk: Oswaldo Guayasamín:
        Negotiating Between Continuity and Change
        with Michele Greet, Professor of Art History,
        George Mason University

Saturday, April 19, 10 am – 4 pm
        Mural workshop with Ecuadorian artist Gabriel Gross
        Create a collaborative mural inspired in the work of
        Oswaldo Guayasamín
        (children ages 10 and above; reservations required)

Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 pm
         Film screening: El Chulla Romero y Flores (2008, ECUAVISA,90min.)
         Directed by Carl West (in Spanish, no subtitles)

Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 pm
        Film screening: El Cojo Navarrete (2008, ECUAVISA, 90min.)
        Directed by Carl West (in Spanish, no subtitles)


Saturday, May 3, 10 am – 4 pm
        Family workshop with Ecuadorian artist Gabriel Gross
        Choose a painting in the exhibit as a point of departure and create
        your own interpretation on canvas (all ages; reservations required)

        Workshops and film screenings are open to the public, however,
        since space is limited, reservations are recommended.

         For more information and to RSVP for workshops or film
        screenings, please contact Gabriel Gross at ggross@oas.org
        or by phone at (202) 458-3752.