Join us for a discussion featuring historians, professors, and writers Dr. Michael J. Bustamante and Dr. Carol Damian, moderated by exhibition curator Prof. Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta. Panelists will discuss artist Mariano Rodríguez’s oeuvre in an expanded manner and from multiple perspectives that delve into the historical and art historical circumstances surrounding his work and practice. Following the panel, engage in a Q&A and an open forum for conversation and engagement. Make sure to visit Mariano Rodriguez: Variations on a Theme before or after the panel.
Michael J. Bustamante (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Professor of History and the Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida International University. He is the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2021. With Jennifer Lambe (Brown University), he is co-editor of (and contributor to) The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980, published by Duke University Press in 2019. In 2019, he joined the editorial board of the journal Cuban Studies.
Dr. Carol Damian is a Professor of Art History, formerly in the School of Art and Art History, and the former Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (2008-2014). She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and received her MA in Pre-Columbian Art and her Ph. D. in Latin American History from the University of Miami. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, she has taught classes in Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Spanish, and Contemporary Latin American Art, Modern Art surveys, and Women in Art. Her most recent work has been with Latin American Women and Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written numerous catalogs and articles. She is the author of The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco (Grassfield Press, 1995), lectures frequently on Latin American and Caribbean art, and has curated numerous exhibitions. She is the Curator of the Kislak Collection at the Miami Dade College Freedom Tower, and the Curator of the Chapel of La Merced at Corpus Christi Church in Miami.
Prof. Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta taught Hispanic Studies at Boston College for over twenty years and has served as curator at its McMullen Museum of Art since 2004. Her research interests and publications focus on the relationship among art, literature and culture in twentieth-century Latin America and Spain. Prof. Goizueta has curated over ten group and solo exhibitions and edited five catalogs. Additionally, she has published numerous essays on Spanish and Latin American artists. Her exhibitions have traveled to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Long Beach Museum of Art, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum, Florida International University, and the Museo de Filatelia, Oaxaca, Mexico
