Description: Las Artes de si denotes cognitive procedures, differentiation, and spiritual cultivation by which Black people, in the context of the Americas, liberate themselves from the shackles of colonial categories through the extent of aesthetically communing with Black cultural manifestations and their epistemic and philosophical horizons. Through Las Artes de si, the production of aesthetic experiences, the Black communities of the Americas cultivated resistance, building shared territories, quilombos, cumbes, and palenques. 

Speaker bio: Maya Quilolo (b. 1994) is a maroon artist and researcher. Winner at the Prince Claus Culture Responds to Climate Change Awards( 2023), her artistic practice addresses intersections between environmental justice, black corporality, visual art, anthropology, and indigenous heritage. 

HOST: LATIN AMERICAN FACULTY WORKING GROUP

SPONSORS: DRESHER CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES; GENDER, WOMEN’S + SEXUALITY STUDIES; MODERN LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS + INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION; GEOGRAPHY + ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MINOR; LATINX HISPANIC FACULTY ASSOCIATION