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When Thu, Oct 3, 2024
Where Walker Cinema
Price Free

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Join artist william cordova for a talk and screening exploring his research into the little known history of Latino members of the Black Panther Party from the 1960s to 80s. Drawing from rare interviews, materials from underground and mainstream media, as well as FBI records, cordova’s film in progress functions as truth-telling, documenting how Latino women and men played a vital role in the Panthers’ history.

Bio

william cordova (b. Lima, Peru) is a U.S.-based interdisciplinary cultural practitioner, motivated by a creative engagement in architecture, geometry, and history to illuminate and shape themes of resistance in our collective landscape. His interests include the roots of abstraction, history of textile encoding, and nonlinear narratives. cordova illuminates the synthesis of memory, ritual, and mythology to further disrupt, challenge, and reassess definitions of our collective landscape, juxtaposing social political theories with Third Cinema strategies. He has held residencies at Studio Museum in Harlem; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Project Row Houses; the American Academy in Berlin, Germany; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Artpace; and Headlands Art Center. He is also an award recipient from the Knight Foundation, Art Matters, Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Michael Richards Grant, and the 2024 Creative Capital Award. cordova earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University.

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