Dr. Ta??na Caragol on ???Dolores Huerta: Daring to Lead???????
Thursday, March 23, 2pm????
Community College of Rhode Island, Flanagan Campus (1762 Louisquisset Pike, Lincoln), Room 1336
TANIA CARAGOL LECTURE ON DOLORES HUERTA??
RIHS, CCRI Present Ta??na Caragol Talk on Labor Leader, Activist Dolores Huerta
(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) ??? The Rhode Island Historical Society and the Community College of Rhode Island will present a Women???s History Month lecture with Dr. Ta??na Caragol, Curator of Latino Art and History at the Smithsonian???s National Portrait Gallery, who will discuss labor leader and Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta, a founder of the American Farm Workers movement, at CCRI???s Flanagan Campus (1762 Louisquisset Pike, Lincoln), Room 1336 (see building map), on Thursday, March 23, 2pm.
The event is free and open to the public with advance registration.
Since 2013, Caragol has led the effort to increase the representation of Latino historical figures and artists at the National Portrait Gallery. During that time, she has added more than 100 portraits to the museum???s collection and curated the exhibitions ???Portraiture Now: Staging the Self??? (which traveled to New York and Albuquerque in 2015), and ???One Life: Dolores Huerta,??? which is being expanded and redesigned for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service starting in 2018.??
Before joining the Smithsonian Institution, Caragol was Curator of Education at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico in 2010. From 2003 to 2007, she worked as Latin American bibliographer for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Between 2007-2008, she was a researcher at University of Essex, England, for the investigation ???Latin American Art in the UK: History, Historiography, Specificity.???
She earned her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2013, with a dissertation titled: ???Boom and Dust: The Rise of Latin American and Latino Art in New York Exhibition Venues and Auction Houses, 1970s???1980s.??? She has published essays on Latin American and Latino artists and has also written on the importance of archival preservation for contributing to a better understanding of the history of Latino and Latin American art in the United States.
???Dolores Huerta: Daring to Lead??? is free and open to the public. More information can be found at http://www.rihs.org/dolores-huerta-daring-lead-taina-caragol/
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About the Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS is the fourth-oldest historical society in the United States and is Rhode Island???s largest and oldest historical organization, as well as its only Smithsonian Affiliate. In Providence, the RIHS owns and operates the John Brown House Museum, a designated National Historic Landmark, built in 1788; the Aldrich House, built in 1822 and used for administration and public programs; and the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, where archival, book and image collections are housed. In Woonsocket, the RIHS manages the Museum of Work and Culture, a community museum examining the industrial history of northern Rhode Island and of the workers and settlers, especially French-Canadians, who made it one of the state???s most distinctive areas.