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ARTIST TALK. CORN MANDALA.Featuring Jorge Taylor Rojas.
Bostock Library 127. Duke University. West Campus. 12:00 pm.
Jorge Rojas (b. Morelos, Mexico) is a recognized curator, artist, performer, and museum educator based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“We Are the Corn”
The connection between humans and corn began about 10,000 years ago, when early people in Mexico began domesticating a wild grass called teosinte, creating the edible grain we now know as maize, or corn (maíz in Spanish). Beyond just a food source, maize holds deep spiritual, healing, and artistic significance across the Americas and beyond.
Rojas’s experience as an artist and educator often intersects with his interests as a curator, shaping exhibitions that reflect on interpretation, institutional critique, social and racial justice, and the role of cultural and mediated forms of communication. He has dedicated most of his curatorial practice to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision of giving voice to plants, as well as to the diverse talents of emerging and mid-career BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant artists.
Followed by a Lunch/Reception. The Edge Lounge. 1:00 p.m.
https://sites.duke.edu/corncottoncoaltobacco/events/
Part of : GROUNDING AMERICA: CORN | COTTON | TOBACCO | COAL
Thanks to: Duke Campus Farm, RePlant (WG plant humanities), FHI, Romance Studies, Nicholas School of the Environment, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University Libraries, and Artist Studio Project Publishing.
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Bostock Library 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708, United States
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