Meet the artists of the new ArteVoces series!
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Six local artists representing four different art forms will share their personal and artistic journeys in Hola Cultura’s latest artist dialogue series, ArteVoces.
Selected for their exceptional craftsmanship and strong conceptual groundings, these artists will take part in recorded dialogue sessions this winter and then join Hola Cultura in the spring to continue the conversation at a special event in D.C.
The selected artists are Aynex Mercado, a textile artist based in Frederick, Maryland; Guayi Fernandez, a D.C. street photographer originally from Venezuela; LuLo, a muralist, set designer and painter who has recently begun to focus on social muralism; Mexican ceramicist Mia Angel, who established the solo studio practice ENCÁNTARO in 2021; Noelle Zambrano, a ceramic artist living in Hyattsville, Maryland; and Rachel Dickerson, a sculptor from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, whose work blends abstraction and realism.
While they all represent different artistic forms and different personal origins, each artist exhibits a range of experiences that will foster insightful discussions about establishing an arts career and building community in the Washington region.
ArteVoces will spotlight these local Latine artists through a series of recorded dialogues. The artists will be organized into two panel-style discussions, with one focusing on inspirations drawn from the D.C. arts ecosystem and the other examining cultural links to our places of origin and nature. We’ve recruited two distinguished moderators to guide these conversations: artist Carlos Carmonamedina and Melinda Machado, the director of communications at the National Museum of American History.
“The selected artists represent an exciting and diverse presence in our city, and I’m thrilled to share their work with our community,” says Carmonamedina, whose acclaimed postcard series “DC is my City” explored the District’s iconic sites and lesser-known places.
With support from HumanitiesDC, we will record these dialogues, and we are excited to share them with the community at our spring event. Hola Cultura also plans to publish edited versions of these interviews in a limited edition zine.
“Hola Cultura has been interviewing artists in D.C.’s Latine community for more than a decade now,” says Hola Cultura’s executive director Christine MacDonald. “Following the success of last year’s podcast, ‘Artistas in the Capital,’ it’s exciting to be able to continue our work of supporting the makers of the diverse and talented Latine art scene we have in D.C.”
Visit the ArteVoces page to learn more about the artists. We are excited for our audience to engage with their art and hear their stories!
— Story by Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe
— Copy edited by Michelle Benitez
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