The Strangest Fruit Symposium
18 October 2014
List Art Center Auditorium
Brown University
The David Winton Bell Gallery presents a symposium in conjunction with the opening of Vincent Valdez's The Strangest Fruit on 18 October 2013 from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. The Strangest Fruit, Valdez's new series of ten large-scale paintings, references the lynching of Latinos in the United States and metaphorically illustrates the persecution and oppression felt by contemporary Latino Americans. Monica Muñoz Martinez, Daniel Hernandez, and Vincent Valdez will respond to the works and the histories and contemporary experiences that fostered them.
Speakers:
Monica Muñoz Martinez
Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin
Reckoning with Anti-Mexican Violence: Visual Legacies of State Sanctioned Violence in Texas, 1910-Present
Daniel Hernandez
Editor, VICE México, Mexico City
Hanging Brown Men
Vincent Valdez
The Strangest Fruit
