Our Americas, HCUAP Artist Talk

About this event

Learn about the artistic trajectory of three visiting artists in the HCUAP Visiting Artists in Residence Program whose work differently reflects on the experience of the Americas as a plural place with vibrant histories: Tomas Ives, from Santiago, Chile, Ish Muhammad of Indiana and New York, and Gloria “Gloe” Talamantes, a first-generation Mexican-American living in Chicago. With different backgrounds in style writing, printmaking, graphic design and journalism, all three visiting artists do high impact work connected to communities in the public realm. Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP, pronounced, “hiccup”) seeks to create platforms for conversation and education about urban art production (graffiti, street art and muralism, among other genres) to explore aesthetic and historical connections between post-industrial cities. Beginning in 2016 they have sustained programming that focused on the intercultural exchange between the post-industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, Mexico and León Guanajuato Mexico. Doors open at 5 p.m. Ish Muhammad is a self-taught artist. Born in New York City, Ish has called Indiana home for over four decades. Muhammad’s work is post-graffiti abstract expressionism and his works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, murals and site-specific installations. He maintains residency at the Lovelace House in Gary, Indiana and a satellite studio in Hammond, Indiana. Muhammad earned his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Gloria “Gloe” Talamantes is a first-generation Mexican-American mixed media artist, youth worker, graffiti writer and cultural worker. Her art consists of mural painting, documenting, curating and organizing to promote community building and self-awareness through healing-centered practices. She has self-funded murals across Chicago through the Brown Wall Project, a project created in response to graffiti erasure in Chicago.…