March 15, 2013, 1:00 PM to March 17, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT
The Third Triennial Conference of the Association for Latin American Art will be held on March 15th through 17th, 2013 at the Art Museum of the Americas and coincides with AMA’s exhibition, Island High: Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The conference will be divided into three panels reflecting the main areas of research undertaken by the association’s members: Pre-Columbian art and architecture, vice-regal and colonial art and architecture, and modern and contemporary art and architecture (Latin American and Latina/o). Participants will explore the theme “Cities, Borders and Frontiers,” by focusing on how art is deployed in urban centers or borderland regions. The conference proposes to promote new research within each specialization and to initiate interdisciplinary discourse foregrounding current developments within the field of Latin American Studies
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: In the urban dictionary, Island High is that state of mind, that swing of moods, you are in when you live on the Island. It's that contradicting set of emotions, which varies between the extremely frustrated and the eternally loving. Needing to stay and needing to go. Culturally, socially, and economically the peoples of The Dominican Republic and Haiti are as varying and different as the Island High. The exhibit is part of that identity. It is how we look at ourselves and how we look at each other. It is a part of our diversity, of the social and environmental surroundings that we live in. It's about how we position ourselves given the possibilities that we have and the realities that affect us. This is one part of our Island High.
This is the latest iteration of a series of exhibits that aim to explore a greater dialogue between the peoples of the Dominican Republic and Haiti through art. Theme-based galleries explore three different aspects of Dominican and Haitian identity, exploring the similarities and differences that these two countries, which share a single island, share.
