From the Andes to Cuba and Back: Visual Cultures of Resistance in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Join MOAD at the newly reopened Freedom Tower for an engaging edition of the Kislak Talks series, featuring scholar and author Ananda Cohen-Aponte.

Referring to the Andean paintings and textiles in the Kislak Center at the Freedom Tower, Cohen-Aponte will discuss the intersections of visual culture, coloniality, and resistance within the Andean region. Her talk will explore how these works reflect the complex social, political, and spiritual dynamics of migration, and how they blend the cultural heritage of immigrants with colonial influences to create a unique visual language of identity and adaptation.

Ananda Cohen-Aponte is an Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University and a recent Getty Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. The author of Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes and Reimagining Lost Visual Archives of Black and Indigenous Resistance, her research examines racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, and the legacies of colonialism in Latinx art.

This event celebrates the newly installed Kislak Center exhibition, Languages of Migration.

Refreshments will be served.

Visitors to the Freedom Tower may park for free in the MDC garage at 500 NE Second Avenue, between NE Fifth and NE Sixth Streets (designated Building 7 on MDC's Wolfson Campus parking map). In addition, there are more than a dozen public parking lots around the Museum. Visit Miami Parking Authority to find parking lot addresses, hours, and rates.

The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form. The programs at the Freedom Tower, operated by the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at Miami Dade College (MDC), are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with collections, exhibition, and marketing support from ArtesMiami, Art Bridges Foundation, the Shepard Broad Foundation, the Miami Downtown Development Authority (Miami DDA), Henry Luce Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, and US Century Bank. The Miami Herald is a media sponsor of MOAD's Freedom Tower programming.

Image: Abraham Ortelius, Florida [with] Guastecan [with] Peruviae Avriferae Regionis Typus, 1589. Engraving. Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Early Americas, Exploration and Navigation, Miami Dade College.