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April 7 | 7pm - 9pm AST
with Taína Caragol, Rosa Ficek, Soraya Serra y Ramón Rivera Servera
An Ideology of Fragmented Meaning examines the history of the Teodoro Vidal Collection, donated to the Museum of American History, and of Marvette Pérez, the first Puerto Rican curator at the Smithsonian and the person responsible for exhibiting it. Building on this video, we will discuss the work of Puerto Rican curators and researchers at the Smithsonian, past and present, how Puerto Rico has been collected by foreign institutions, and ideologies of preservation in Puerto Rico.
April 7 | 7pm - 9pm AST
with Taína Caragol, Rosa Ficek, Soraya Serra y Ramón Rivera Servera
An Ideology of Fragmented Meaning examines the history of the Teodoro Vidal Collection, donated to the Museum of American History, and of Marvette Pérez, the first Puerto Rican curator at the Smithsonian and the person responsible for exhibiting it. Building on this video, we will discuss the work of Puerto Rican curators and researchers at the Smithsonian, past and present, how Puerto Rico has been collected by foreign institutions, and ideologies of preservation in Puerto Rico.