Javier Pescador’s New Book and Art Exhibits

Professor Javier has just published Crossing Borders with the Santo Nino de Atocha with University of New Mexico Press. He has presented the department with a copy of this beautifully bound book.
Moreover, The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has chosen Pescador’s installation “Santo Nino-Quetzalcoatl” (with Gabrielle Pescador) for contribution to the museum’s “Camino a [...]

Professors Jerry Garcia and Benjamin Smith Co-Curate Exhibit: "In the Name of the Blood Shed: Art, Resistance, and Repression in Mexico"

Please join us Monday, March 2, 2009 for the opening of an exciting art exhibition, titled ‘In the Name of the Blood Shed: Art, Resistance, and Repression in Mexico,’ which links into a larger campus-wide initiative seeking to emphasize the diversity of scholarly projects by emerging and established faculty within the fields of Chicano/Latino and [...]

Professor Javier Pescador Co-Curates Exhibit on Detroit-Tenoxtitlan

An exciting exhibit on the Detoit/Tenoxtitlan Ofrenda to Diego Reivera and the 2008 Dia De Muertos will open at the MSU Museum on November 2 at dusk. There will be music and tamales. The exhibit will be on display from November 1-16.
2008 marks the 75th anniversary of Diego Rivera´s most accomplished frescoes in the United [...]

Professor Sam Thomas Curates Exciting New Exhibit at the MSU Museum on Political Cartoons

No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age, a new exhibit arranged and currated by Professor Sam Thomas, has opened at the MSU Museum. As we are in the midst of a bitter presidential election context, the exhibit on politics from the late ninteeenth century provides historical perspective on campaigning. Dr. Thomas writes: “Today’s [...]