The Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of Belize to the OAS announce the opening of landings 5.  The exhibition is the fifth in a series of ten exhibitions of installation art from Central America and the Caribbean curated by Joan Duran.  The exhibition will be on view at the Art Museum of the Americas (201 18^th Street, N.W.) from July 5 through September 15, 2007. 

landings 5 features work by thirty three contemporary visual artists from twelve nations (Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, Aruba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic).  The exhibition includes photography, video, printmaking, installation, textile, painting, sculpture, collage and mixed media works.

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Friday, July 20 –  Landings 5 catalog presentation
with curator Joan Duran
6 p.m.
Landings is a new platform for contemporary artists from Central America, the Caribbean and Southeastern Mexico to work on creating a cultural space that draws on the lively development of various art movements in the region.  Organized from BELIZE and curated by Joan Duran, the project is an attempt to cross-fertilize current cultures and identities in a spirit of collaboration, celebration, inquiry and exploration. Landings touches down in regional and international locations, conveying a multiplicity of messages through its investigative, site-specific installation format.   

For further information or images, please contact
Greg Svitil at (202) 458-6016 or gsvitil@oas.org.


This exhibition has been made possible by the generous support of UNESCO, the National Institute of Culture and History of Belize, five-o-one art projects, www.unasletras.com, the Image Factory art foundation, HANNspree, the Permanent Mission of Belize to the OAS, and Copa Airlines. 

The Art Museum of the Americas wishes to thank the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center for its support of Museum programs.