About this Event
Obed Arango Hisijara is a citizen of Latin America of Mexican origin, photographer, social anthropologist, social leader and university professor. Idalia Vasquez-Achury is a Colombian-born, Philadelphia-based lens media artist. Arango Hisijara and Vasquez-Achury will each share about their interdisciplinary work which encompass journalism, documentary filmmaking, performance, installation, and photography. Arango Hisijara will screen his short documentary Maconi, which is part of his Villa inmigrante collection of films.
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About the Speakers
Idalia Vasquez-Achury is a Colombian-born, Philadelphia-based lens media artist. Delving into performance, installation, and photography, her practice centers on exploring the state of permanent transition or perpetual becoming, as well as the ambiguity and fluidity inherent in contemporary diasporic experiences. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses photography, artist books, and large-scale photographic installations. Currently, Idalia teaches photography at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and has previously taught at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster, PA.
Obed Arango Hisijara is a citizen of Latin America of Mexican origin, photographer, social anthropologist, social leader and university professor. Additionally, he is the founder and executive director of the Center for Culture, Art, Work and Education (CCATE), a non-profit organization that was founded in 2011, and is located in the metropolitan area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and whose mission is: “to promote change and social transformation based on the talents of the Latin community, at the intersection with education, art, culture, technology, health and environmental sciences.”
As an academic, Obed was a full professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico between 1991 and 2003 and where he continues to teach courses by invitation in the graduate unit and he is currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States where teaches the subjects of Social Policy and the Latino Community, and Participatory Action Research. In his academic journey, Obed has presented in numerous national and international forums topics related to immigration, ethnography of social space, semiotics of culture, education, and human development. He has also published in books and academic journals in the United States, Latin America and the United Kingdom on the same topics.
About the “Picturing the Border” Speaker Series
With this series we aim to amplify the contemporary work of local artists, activists and scholars who, like Enrique Bostelmann, focused their attention on the U.S.-Mexico border. “Picturing the Border” seeks to address the many ways that individuals represent, imagine, and conceptualize the border beyond its status as a geographic location or a political division. Our speakers come from a variety of professions and backgrounds from which they will speak about the border and its place within their work, while also providing an opportunity to evaluate the work of Enrique Bostelmann (on display in the Berman Museum’s Main Galleries) and recognize the resonances and distinctions between his decades long career and that of local Latinx/é artists.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, 601 East Main Street, Collegeville, United States
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