The next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar lecture is art historian Roberto Tejada. He is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches creative writing and art history.
The lecture will be on Wednesday, March 20th at 5:30 pm in Richards Hall Rm. 15, and the lecture is free and open to the public.
A translator, editor, essayist, art historian and cultural critic, Tejada was awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 2021.
He is the author of art and media histories National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009) and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), as well as catalog essays in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011) and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (The Menil Collection, 2021).
His poetry collections include Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Todo en el ahora (2015), Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), a Latinx poetics on colonial settlement and cultural counter-conquest in art and literature of the Americas.
His writing spans method, discipline, and form to address the political imagination and impurity of time in shared image environments.
More details at: https://arts.unl.edu/art/news/art-historian-roberto-tejada-next-hixson-lied-visiting-scholar