Keynote Presentation for the 9th Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference

The University of Arizona's U.S. Department of Education Title VI Centers — Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL), Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) — are co-organizing the 9th annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference. This year's conference's theme, "Arts and Education without Borders," aims to explore innovative strategies and best practices for integrating global perspectives into community college curricula through the arts. Alana Hernandez will give the keynote lecture at the University of Arizona Poetry Center at 5:30 pm. This lecture is presented in collaboration with the Poetry Center, the College of Humanities, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference. Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez conceptualizes exhibitions and projects as relational and co-creative work with artists and develops projects that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. She actively engages in a curatorial and methodological model that prioritizes visibility, decentralized institutional authorship, and community-embedded agency and works directly with constituencies to facilitate meaning-making that is generative, mobilizing, and transformative. In recent years, much of Hernandez’s curatorial work centers on Latinx art and artists working with print and craft-based mediums and investigates how the aesthetic statements thus employed are integral, often political producers of cultural consciousness.