Exhibition Tour: La Raza Art and Media Collective with Artist Nicole Marroquin
Join curator David Choberka and commissioned artist Nicole Marroquin for a look at “La Raza Art and Media Collective, 1975 – Today.” This exhibition revisits the 50th anniversary of the RAM Collective—formed by a pioneering group of Latina/o students to voice the cultural and political expression of Chicano, Hispanic, and Latin American communities—by presenting the four original issues of its multimedia journal produced between 1976 and 1977. The journals are exhibited for the first time. They are framed by original art commissions from three generations of Latinx alumni artists —George Vargas, Nicole Marroquin, and Michelle Hinojosa.
More About Nicole Marroquin
Nicole Marroquin is an artist who explores spatial justice, belonging and Latinx history through projects that decenter dominant narratives to address displacement and erasure. Through research and creative practice, she aims to recover and re-present histories of Black and brown youth and women’s leadership in the struggle for justice. Recently she has presented projects at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, the Kochi Biennale, the Annual Conference of the American Association of Research Librarians, University of Maine, New York Archivist Round Table, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, DePaul Museum of Art, on WLPN Lumpen Radio, Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center and more. Her essays are included in the Visual Art Research Journal, Counter-Signals, the Chicago Social Practice History Series, Revista Contratiempo, Where the Future Came From, and Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements. She is a 2022 United States Artist Fellowship recipient and a member of the Justseeds and Chicago ACT collectives.
SUPPORT
Lead support for La Raza Art and Media Collective 1975 – Today is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, Susan and Richard Gutow, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, and the U-M Bentley Historical Library.>