This is a workshop and memory activation with art historian, Claudia Pretelin.

Followed by a walk-through by Claudia Pretelin, participants will reflect on how the artists featured in the exhibition ɪɴꜱᴛʀᴜᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴍᴇᴍᴏʀʏ use their practice to investigate their diasporic identities and what roles memories have in building communities.

In this theoretical-practical workshop participants are invited to delve into their personal archives bringing mementos and objects of remembrance. Through a memory activation, we will share our own diasporic stories and memories on what we/our families/our ancestors have lost or left behind, and how we use those stories to find and build our own community.

This program is designed for adult participants 

About the curator

Claudia Pretelin is a Mexican art historian, independent curator, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles, California. She holds a B.A. in communications and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her academic work has specialized in the fields of photo history and contemporary art. She has lectured in Mexico, Argentina, and the United States and her work has been published in magazines such as Alquimia, Revista de Arte y Diseño, La Palabra y El Hombre, and Terremoto. For more than ten years she worked for Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide and has also assisted & coordinated research and exhibitions in photo collections, museums, and art galleries, including Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). She currently works in the studio of renowned artist Gary Baseman. Pretelin is the Founder & Content Curator of www.instrumentsofmemory.com, a site that documents conversations with women in the arts published as interviews and oral history.