Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
Joiri Minaya. The Upkeepers. 2021. ; William Camargo. We Gonna Have to Move Out Soon Fam! Anaheim. 2019. ; Gabriela Ruiz and Bibs Moreno. Un+tled. October 2017. Courtesy Artists and Aperture.
Atlanta Art Week Event:
You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography | Eastside
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Friday, October 6, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sunday, October 8, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
About:
You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography celebrates the dynamic photography of Latinx artists across the United States. The exhibition brings together established and emerging artists who tackle themes of political resistance, family and community, fashion and culture, and the complexity of identity in American life. Artists in the exhibition contribute to a vast visual archive of the Latinx experience as pluralistic, nuanced, and fluid. They illustrate a range of histories and geographies, contextualize and reinterpret watershed social and artistic movements, stake space for queerness, and articulate the importance of photography within the larger field of Latinx art. You Belong Here explores contemporary photography that sheds light on social spaces—from intimate portrayals of home and family to collective experiences of the streets and nightlife—as well as the in-betweenness, or nepantla, of transnational, multiracial, and postcolonial identities. It generates an expansive dialogue about visibility and belonging for Latinx people.
The exhibition is curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and organized by Aperture. The exhibition features works by Genesis Báez, William Camargo, Sofía Córdova, Perla de Leon, Tarrah Krajnak, Hiram Maristany, Joiri Minaya, Steven Molina Contreras, Star Montana, Eddie Quiñones, Reynaldo Rivera, Guadalupe Rosales, Gabriela Ruiz and Bibs Moreno, John M. Valadez.
Special Exhibition Guided Tours will be offered at 2 p.m., Tuesday, October 3, through Sunday, October 8, and are free with admission. Capacity is limited, and registration is required. Participants can meet the tour guide at 2 p.m. each day at the Michael C. Carlos Museum's Level One rotunda and information desk.
About Michael C. Carlos Museum: Set in the heart of Emory’s Atlanta campus, the Michael C. Carlos Museum is a dynamic, interdisciplinary center for the study of art and culture, with collections from Africa; ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East; ancient Greece and Rome; the Indigenous Americas; and South Asia; as well as American and European Works on Paper.
Through our permanent collections, engaging special exhibitions, and innovative programs for audiences of all ages, the Carlos Museum connects the past with the present and the campus with the community. The museum is committed to emphasizing diverse voices, perspectives, and disciplines.
Curators and faculty develop original exhibitions, engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching, and host touring exhibitions that complement our collections and support the teaching mission of the university. The museum’s conservators collaborate with staff, faculty, and students to conduct research and manage preventive care on the museum's varied collections. Museum educators reach across the museum, campus, and city to develop opportunities to engage the intellect and the imagination of university students and faculty, preK-12 students and teachers, and the larger Atlanta community.
Mission: The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets art and artifacts from antiquity to the present in order to provide unique opportunities for education and enrichment in the community and to promote interdisciplinary teaching and research at Emory University.
History: Emory University’s collections date back to 1876 when a museum was formed on the original campus in Oxford, Georgia. At this stage in its development, the museum’s collection resembled the Renaissance wunderkammer, or “wonder room;” here, an assortment of objects such as artifacts collected by Methodist missionaries and Emory faculty working in Asia were displayed for the enjoyment of the public.
After the collection moved to Emory’s main campus in 1919, attempts were made to transition the eclectic assortment from Oxford into a research-quality collection. Through the mid-20th century, the collection grew in the areas of natural science and archaeology.
The museum began a period of significant transition in the 1980s, as Emory faculty worked to refine the collection and find a permanent home for the museum with the assistance of university administration. In 1985, with the support of local philanthropist Michael C. Carlos, the museum moved into the old law school building, whose renovation was designed by Michael Graves.
The collection of the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology as it was then known had been reorganized and refocused to align with the research and teaching objectives of university faculty in areas such as Latin American, African, and classical art and Middle Eastern Studies.
Fewer than 10 years later, the growth of the museum’s collections necessitated a new space. In 1993, an expanded museum and a new conservation laboratory, also supported by Michael C. Carlos and designed by Michael Graves, opened as the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
In 2019, the museum celebrated 100 years of inspiring generations of Emory faculty and students as well as visitors from Atlanta and beyond who have sought to enrich their lives through the study of and experiences with art.
www.carlos.emory.edu | @carlosmuseum
Hours of Operation:
RSVP required, limited capacity, free with the purchase of admission.
Sunday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM