From the Andes to Cuba and Back: Visual Cultures of Resistance
Thursday, 10/23/2025-, 07:00 pm-08:00 pm
Freedom Tower
600 Biscayne Blvd,
Miami, Florida, 33132
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Cost: Free
Join MOAD at the newly reopened Freedom Tower for an engaging edition of the Kislak Talks series, featuring a conversation with scholar and author Ananda Cohen-Aponte and MOAD’s director, Amy Galpin.
Referring to the Andean paintings and textiles in the Kislak Center at the Freedom Tower, Cohen-Aponte will discuss the intersections of visual culture, coloniality, and resistance within the Andean region. Her talk will explore how these works reflect the complex social, political, and spiritual dynamics of migration, and how they blend the cultural heritage of immigrants with colonial influences to create a unique visual language of identity and adaptation.
Ananda Cohen-Aponte is an Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University and a recent Getty Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. The author of Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: Murals of the Colonial Andes and Reimagining Lost Visual Archives of Black and Indigenous Resistance, her research examines racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, and the legacies of colonialism in Latinx art.
This event celebrates the newly installed Kislak Center exhibition, Languages of Migration.
The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.
