Reclaiming the Americas Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory (Latinx: The Future Is Now)

by TATIANA REINOZA • AUSTIN, TX | UNIVERSITY of TEXAS PRESS | April 18, 2023 | 248 pages

Description:

How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.

Printmakers have conspired, historically, to illustrate the maps created by European colonizers that were used to chart and claim their expanding territories. Over the last three decades, Latinx artists and print studios have reclaimed this printed art form for their own spatial discourse. This book examines the limited editions produced at four art studios around the US that span everything from sly critiques of Manifest Destiny to printed portraits of Dreamers in Texas.

Reclaiming the Americas is the visual history of Latinx printmaking in the US. Tatiana Reinoza employs a pan-ethnic comparative model for this interdisciplinary study of graphic art, drawing on art history, Latinx studies, and geography in her discussions. The book contests printmaking’s historical complicity in the logics of colonization and restores the art form and the lands it once illustrated to the Indigenous, migrant, mestiza/o, and Afro-descendant people of the Americas.

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In Reclaiming the Americas, Tatiana Reinoza argues that decolonizing Latinx artists reclaimed printmaking from its original association with mapmaking and the associated “spatial logics of colonization” linked to charting and space-claiming. In an act of singular scholarly curation, Reinoza identifies four organizing approaches, or “territorialities,” in the work of printmakers in the US Southwest and along both its coasts, to the Americas is a masterful book, deeply researched and written with clarity, on contemporary printmaking and specifically Latinx printmaking, and it is sure to impact scholars, readers, and teachers of art history as well as American and cultural studies more broadly. -- Leticia Alvarado

About the Author:

TATIANA REINOZA is an art historian who specializes in contemporary Latinx art and the history of Latinx printmakers in the United States. She received her Ph.D. in art history from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. Reinoza has contributed to many scholarly publications on the history of Latinx printmaking including ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965-Now. In addition, she co-curated Hard Fought: Sam Coronado’s World War II Series at the Benson Latin American Collection and All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art at the Brandywine Workshop’s Printed Image Gallery. She is currently a Getty Scholar, in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

A sangre fría, con valentía por BELLA MARTÍNEZ

Félix Disla (Autor), Robert Téllez (Editor), Isabel Zorrilla (Préface), Ana Marchena Segura (Prólogo) Publicación Independiente | Abril 2023 – 174 páginas

A sangre fría, con valentía es la biografía autorizada sobre el ingeniero Francisco Edmundo “Pachín” Ramírez Castillo, el ingeniero que le abrió paso a toda una generación de trabajadores desplazados de República Dominicana que llegó hasta Puerto Rico con la ilusión de lograr el sueño americano.

Este libro pretende establecer un recorrido por la trayectoria de este gran ciudadano, dominicano de nacimiento y puertorriqueño por adopción. Pachín es orgullo domirriqueño e inspiración para todo inmigrante que sueñe con mejorar su calidad de vida aportando al mejoramiento de la patria que le acoge.

BELLA MARTÍNEZ nació en Puerto Rico. Es graduada de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. Vivió en el estado de Dakota del Norte como miembro de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos. Completó su maestría en Administración de Servicios de Salud y Métodos Cuantitativos en Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

Salud / Health

En el año 2016 publicó Esquizofrénica: Episodios imaginarios de una vida diferente. En el 2020 escribió Insurrecta: Crónicas esquizofrénicas de una vida indómita de Ediciones Scriba NYC. Mantiene contacto con sus seguidores a través del blog La vida es bella, atrévete a vivirla. Su misión es inspirar a personas de habla hispana en todo el mundo a vivir la vida a plenitud. Sus escritos han sido publicados en varias antologías literarias internacionales, entre ellas: Divina, la mujer en veinte voces de Ediciones Scriba NYC -premiada en los International Latino Book Awards 2019, en los Ángeles, California- y en varias ediciones del poemario Siglema 575, de poesía minimalista, Ediciones Scriba NYC. Si deseas conocer más de Bella, puedes hacerlo visitando Bellamartinezescribe.com o a través de sus páginas en Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube y Pinterest.

BHN Holds Grand Opening Celebration for New Ware Family Resource Center Location

SPRINGFIELD, MA | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK, Inc.| June 14, 2023— Behavioral Health Network, Inc. (BHN) recently held a Grand Opening Celebration for its new Ware Family Resource Center location at 82 Main Street. Jose Monteiro, Director of Community and Family Engagement for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF); State Representative Todd Smola; Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan; Hampshire County Sheriff Patrick Cahillane; and BHN staff gathered to celebrate the new, larger facility.

The FRC provides free support and access to community resources for families and their children in Western Massachusetts. Center programming is designed to help children develop social and emotional skills; brings people together for mutual support; links families to services and community opportunities; responds to family crises; and values and supports parents and strengthens parenting skills.

Steve Winn, BHN’s President and CEO, said, “We are pleased as an organization to open this new, larger facility as we grow to meet the needs of families in Ware and the region. Being here for our community is critically important. Our new facility, right on Main Street, helps us really be here when you need us.”

In addition to assisting families with finding resources, FRCs support families with youth who are at risk of needing court involvement because of their behavior. A main goal of FRCs is to serve as a diversion from the court system.

The BHN Ware Family Resource Center (FRC) was previously located at 78 Main Street in Ware, and has now moved to a new, larger facility that provides more space for its programs to serve youth and families in Western Massachusetts.

The grand opening event featured a program with remarks by BHN President and CEO Steve Winn; BHN Senior Vice President Katherine Mague; Ware Family Resource Center Program Director Amy Breton; Sheriff Cahillane; Representative Smola; Director of Community and Family Engagement at Massachusetts DCF Jose Monteiro; District Attorney Sullivan; and Aide to Senator Ryan Fattman Amanda Hellyar. Attendees were also able to tour the new facility.

The Ware Family Resource Center is part of a statewide network of FRCs that help families and individuals resolve challenges, strengthen their bonds, connect to others and engage in their communities. FRCs are supported through funding from the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF). For more information about the BHN Family Resource Center, visit www. bhninc.org/frc.

BHN has been providing behavioral health services to children and families in Western Massachusetts since 1938. The agency provides community-based services that include innovative, integrated wholehealth models as well as traditional clinical and outpatient and therapeutic services, day treatment, addiction services, crisis intervention and residential supports.