Queer Forms Exhibit: Alma Lopez at El Colegio

September 27, 2019 @ 5:30PM — 9:30PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Join us for a fundraiser dinner (catered by the Sioux Chef!) followed by a public lecture at El Colegio High School by L.A. Chicana artist Alma Lopez!

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Join us for a fundraiser dinner catered by the Sioux Chef, followed by a public lecture at El Colegio High School by Los Angeles Chicana artist Alma Lopez, co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota's American Studies & Chicano Studies departments, as well as the Imagine Fund Special Events Program.

A renown visual artist, Alma Lopez has been exhibited in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions internationally. In 2011, the University of Texas Press published her book Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s “Irreverent Apparition,” co-edited with Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Currently, Lopez is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies and LGBTQ Studies Program at UCLA. She teaches courses on art censorship, queer art, Chicanx/Latinx art, public art, and digital art. To learn more about her work, see http://www.almalopez.com/

There is hardly a more fitting venue for this event than El Colegio. The school's mission is to, in community, honor and build upon the talents of bilingual students and their diverse families to provide the academic rigor, leadership skills, career preparation, and community connections necessary to fulfill their potential as change makers. They envision that communities worldwide are transformed by the El Colegio experience of liberation.

El Colegio is a bilingual, bicultural school dedicated to social justice and equity, especially for immigrant families in an era of mass deportation. El Colegio is the only high school in the state of Minnesota committed to educating and preparing Latinx and indigenous youth for a bilingual, bicultural world. To do so, we rely on a culturally informed and decolonizing pedagogy that is trauma-informed. For the past two years, 100% of graduating seniors have been accepted to a post-secondary institution. This year four of our graduating senior women enrolled in a four-year university. Given that Minnesota has the lowest graduation rate in the nation for Latinx students and one of the lowest for Native students, what El Colegio has accomplished is outstanding. We believe that when our students thrive, we thrive as a community. El Colegio is not only a high school, it is an anchor in our community. Half of our student population is over the age of 18, while 10% of our youth are homeless or highly mobile. El Colegio also provides a safe space for community organizations to meet and gather together. To learn more about El Colegio, go to http://www.el-colegio.org/

We need your help to keep El Colegio as a sanctuary for the Latinx community, especially in light of the anti-immigrant climate we live in today. Our students and their families are facing immense stress. El Colegio’s staff is doing the best that they can with a very limited budget. El Colegio needs your support to continue to care and support the Latinx and indigenous families.

The price for the dinner is $100 per person. If you would like to make an additional donation, we truly appreciate it.

We look forward to seeing you there!