rafa esparza wearing nails and shoe sculpture by Hart Lëshkina.
Nov. 26, 2024
51ԹϺ Artist Lecture: rafa esparza
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Auditorium
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 7 p.m.
Free
Join us for a free public talk with the performance artist rafa esparza.
This lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 3, in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium. It is organized by 51ԹϺ’s Department of Art. Everyone is welcome.
More About rafa esparza
rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist who was born, raised, and is currently living in Los Angeles. Woven into esparza’s bodies of work are his interest in history, personal narratives, and kinship. He is inspired by his relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that come forth as a result. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry, esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and (non)documentation as primary tools to interrogate and critique ideologies, power structures, and binaries that problematize the “survival” process of historicized narratives and the environments wherein people are left to navigate and socialize.
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About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that holds space for us all. Located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse universities in the U.S., we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for everyone to develop a deeper knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located in the heart of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The museum is easily accessed from the west side of campus at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and University Center Drive. Drive east on East Harmon Ave until the road enters the campus and terminates in a parking lot. The Museum will be on your right, next to a desert landscape garden. Directions here.
Parking
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