ArtsThursdays: The place where the creek goes underground

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Join us to celebrate the launch of the publication accompanying the exhibition The place where the creek goes underground. Artist Anthony Romero and his collaborators, the scholar Deanna Ledezma and the artist Josh Rios, discuss their long collaboration and the history they share, including the region between South-Central Texas and Northern Mexico where their families have lived for generations. The exhibition and publication center on these lands, and they invite audiences to share histories of knowing, strategies of solidarity, and new horizons for the formation of common ground—on issues of labor, immigration, marginalization, and changes to our climate and natural resources—through creative collaboration. For more about the exhibition, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-the-place-where-the-creek-goes-underground-exhibition This event is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative for free, public art events every Thursday evening. It is supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). www.harvard.edu/artsthursdays #ArtsThursdays Speakers Anthony Romero is an artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting Black, brown, and Indigenous communities. He is a founding member of the artistic research collective, Sonic Insurgency Research Group. Romero was the 2019–2020 David and Roberta Logie Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and is currently an associate professor of studio art at Dartmouth College. Deanna Ledezma is the postdoctoral research associate of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research/University of Illinois Chicago Mellon Program. Her current book project “Unsettled Archives: Kinships and Diasporas in Latinx Photography” examines how Latines use photography to negotiate their cultural and diasporic identities, assert their presence amid the ongoing effects of settler colonialism, and commemorate kinship formations, including those disregarded or censured for exceeding conventional ideas of family. Josh Rios is a founding member of Sonic Insurgency Research Group and a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches courses in social theory and research-based practice. As a media artist, writer, and educator his projects deal with the histories, presents, and futurities of Latine and Chicanx subjects and hemispheric resistance to globalization and neoliberalism, highlighting intercultural contact and co-belonging. For information about Harvard Radcliffe Institute and its many public programs, visit https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RadcliffeInstitute Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radcliffe.institute LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/radcliffe-institute Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RadInstitute