Art in Civil Disobedience: In Dialogue With Alan Pelaez Lopez—Artist Talk and Writing Workshop

Visual poet, artist, and cultural critic Alan Pelaez Lopez will share their experience as an undocumented Black queer organizer in the migrant justice movement. This talk will feature Lopez’s own contributions to social movements while also highlighting five other artists. Through collage, installation, and intervention art, Lopez’s work explores erased histories of African diasporic resistance, Indigenous disappearances, and reimagined futures of Black Latin American life. Lopez’s writing has appeared in The Architectural Review, Teen Vogue, Refinery29, and The Nation. This event is in collaboration with CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium and CUNY Undocumented and Immigrant Student programs. It follows the monthly LGBTQIA+ Book Club and will feature an artist talk and writing workshop with Lopez.