GILD Recent PhD Lecture 2022: Nadiah Rivera Fellah

March 7, 2022

11:30AM - 12:30PM

ZOOM (registration required)

Add to Calendar 2022-03-07 12:30:00 2022-03-07 13:30:00 GILD Recent PhD Lecture 2022: Nadiah Rivera Fellah This lecture will be begin with Dr. Nadiah Rivera Fellah’s talk followed by a brief Q&A . Current History of Art graduate students will then be invited to stay on for an informal conversation with Dr. Fellah. Please register in advance for this event via Zoom. Cross-Border Identities and Photography of the US-Mexico Borderlands This talk will focus on cross-border Latinx identity through the photographs of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and Chicano photographer Louis Carlos Bernal. Representing perspectives from both sides of the border, Iturbide and Bernal spent time in the borderlands documenting daily life of residents in their neighborhoods and homes in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Both photographers consciously inserted visual cues throughout their series that tie their sitters’ homes and lifestyles to Mexican roots and historical legacies, thus recuperating the mexicanidad that exists in the borderlands. The complicated relationships between the US and Mexican identity captured on film grows in part from the constructed nature of the border in general—a symbolic (and relatively recent) division between nations that does not represent lived reality or any true divide between identities and cultures. Iturbide and Bernal’s images form an origin story for the topicality of the US-Mexico border at the present moment, and demonstrate that the issues of the border have been a critical point of inquiry for artists since the 1970s. Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Nadiah Rivera Fellah received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and currently serves as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Fellah specializes in Latin American and global contemporary art and completed her dissertation on the role of photography in capturing stories of migration in the US-Mexico borderlands from the 1970s to the present. She has also served in various capacities at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, the James Gallery at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Most recently at Newark, she curated the exhibition Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth and served as the primary author and editor for the accompanying catalog. In addition to this work, Fellah has taught courses on curatorial practice and modern and contemporary art at the City University of New York. If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Allison Buenger at buenger.2@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. ZOOM (registration required) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2022-03-07 11:30:00 2022-03-07 12:30:00 GILD Recent PhD Lecture 2022: Nadiah Rivera Fellah This lecture will be begin with Dr. Nadiah Rivera Fellah’s talk followed by a brief Q&A . Current History of Art graduate students will then be invited to stay on for an informal conversation with Dr. Fellah. Please register in advance for this event via Zoom.    Cross-Border Identities and Photography of the US-Mexico Borderlands This talk will focus on cross-border Latinx identity through the photographs of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and Chicano photographer Louis Carlos Bernal. Representing perspectives from both sides of the border, Iturbide and Bernal spent time in the borderlands documenting daily life of residents in their neighborhoods and homes in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Both photographers consciously inserted visual cues throughout their series that tie their sitters’ homes and lifestyles to Mexican roots and historical legacies, thus recuperating the mexicanidad that exists in the borderlands. The complicated relationships between the US and Mexican identity captured on film grows in part from the constructed nature of the border in general—a symbolic (and relatively recent) division between nations that does not represent lived reality or any true divide between identities and cultures. Iturbide and Bernal’s images form an origin story for the topicality of the US-Mexico border at the present moment, and demonstrate that the issues of the border have been a critical point of inquiry for artists since the 1970s.   Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Nadiah Rivera Fellah received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and currently serves as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Fellah specializes in Latin American and global contemporary art and completed her dissertation on the role of photography in capturing stories of migration in the US-Mexico borderlands from the 1970s to the present. She has also served in various capacities at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, the James Gallery at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Most recently at Newark, she curated the exhibition Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth and served as the primary author and editor for the accompanying catalog. In addition to this work, Fellah has taught courses on curatorial practice and modern and contemporary art at the City University of New York.    If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Allison Buenger at buenger.2@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date. ZOOM (registration required) Department of History of Art historyofart@osu.edu America/New_York public

This lecture will be begin with Dr. Nadiah Rivera Fellah’s talk followed by a brief Q&A . Current History of Art graduate students will then be invited to stay on for an informal conversation with Dr. Fellah.

Please register in advance for this event via Zoom.

Cross-Border Identities and Photography of the US-Mexico Borderlands

This talk will focus on cross-border Latinx identity through the photographs of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, and Chicano photographer Louis Carlos Bernal. Representing perspectives from both sides of the border, Iturbide and Bernal spent time in the borderlands documenting daily life of residents in their neighborhoods and homes in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Both photographers consciously inserted visual cues throughout their series that tie their sitters’ homes and lifestyles to Mexican roots and historical legacies, thus recuperating the mexicanidad that exists in the borderlands. The complicated relationships between the US and Mexican identity captured on film grows in part from the constructed nature of the border in general—a symbolic (and relatively recent) division between nations that does not represent lived reality or any true divide between identities and cultures. Iturbide and Bernal’s images form an origin story for the topicality of the US-Mexico border at the present moment, and demonstrate that the issues of the border have been a critical point of inquiry for artists since the 1970s.

Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art

Nadiah Rivera Fellah received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and her PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and currently serves as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Fellah specializes in Latin American and global contemporary art and completed her dissertation on the role of photography in capturing stories of migration in the US-Mexico borderlands from the 1970s to the present. She has also served in various capacities at the Newark Museum in New Jersey, the James Gallery at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Most recently at Newark, she curated the exhibition Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth and served as the primary author and editor for the accompanying catalog. In addition to this work, Fellah has taught courses on curatorial practice and modern and contemporary art at the City University of New York.

If you require accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Allison Buenger at buenger.2@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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