Join us for a 30-minute pre-lunchtime tour of the exhibition Juan William Chávez: Art Pollination, led by Mennello Museum’s Executive Director, Shannon Fitzgerald, and special guest scholars!
October 17: Shannon Fitzgerald
November 21: Dr. Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Professor of Art History, University of Central Florida
December 19: Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education, Mennello Museum
About Juan William Chávez: Art Pollination:
The social practice of artist Juan William Chávez is rooted in his holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage. An artist, activist, educator, and beekeeper of Indigenous Latinx and Irish descent, Chávez brings together art, culture, and community in a cross-pollination of people, disciplines, gathering, and storytelling. His work emphasizes intentional generosity and the importance of exchange, gathering material culture and symbolic tools to create evocative sites that expand multiple cultural signifiers as visual traces and contemporary evidence for pollinating, for being, resulting in elevating platforms for contemplation, reverie, respect, and action. This exhibition features a multi-media installation including drawings, embroidery, zines, artifacts, and ephemera that reflect a specific archaeology of place highlighting how creativity is nurtured through the pollination, exchange, of art and ideas. Chávez’s installation explores themes of food sovereignty, community building, environmental awareness, and decolonization.
There is no additional fee to attend this event. Regular museum admission required upon entry.
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