Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds—Simple Complexities(Vidas Hispanas, Mundos Latinos—Simplicidad y Complejidad)

September 6, 2008 – Oct. 12, 2008

This exhibition celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with over 30 works of art whose diverse styles and media explore the juxtapositions between young and old, new and traditional, rural and urban, simple and complex. The guest curator is Riccardo Stoeckicht, Vice President of Operations at the Rodel Foundation of Delaware. Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds is part of the Museum’s Outlooks Exhibition Series, and it is presented in collaboration with the Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs.

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In Motion III, 2006, from the Animus Corpus Series Jorge Posada (born 1954) Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches Lent by the artist, 2008		La Novia, 2007 Mara Odette (born 1944) Clay, 9 x 9 x 10 inches Lent by the artist, 2008		Silencio I, 2007 Pedro Opsina Mixed Media, 18 x 15 x 8 inches Lent by the artist, 2008

The Delaware Art Museum received a MetLife Foundation Museum and Community Connections grant to support this exhibition. This exhibition is supported, in part, by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In Delaware, this exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hispanic Heritage Community Day
Sunday, September 28 | noon – 3:30 p.m.
Free | All ages

Celebrate Hispanic heritage, arts, and culture with a fun and educational afternoon at the Delaware Art Museum! Kids and their families will enjoy meeting artists featured in the Outlooks exhibition, Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds—Simple Complexities, and will learn about the artists’ techniques and the cultural roots that inspired them. In addition, there will be colored pencil demonstrations, a variety of traditional Latin American garments and costumes to see, and Hispanic-inspired art activities.

The Hispanic Heritage Community Day is presented by the Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs. This program is sponsored in part by Nemour’s Health & Prevention Services.

Noon – 3:30 p.m. (East Court)
Maracas & Music with Manelly Vera

Noon – 3:30 p.m. (Children’s Studio)
Skin Color Exercise: A Demonstration with Elena Patina

12:30 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. (DuPont Auditorium)
Stories of Latin America with Charito Calvachi-Mateyko

1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. (Galleries 11 & 12)
Spanish-Language Tour of Hispanic Life, Latin Worlds, Simple Complexities (Vidas Hispanas, Mundos Latinos – Simplicidad y Complejidad)

1:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 3:00pm (Thronson)
Colored Pencil Demonstration & Art Activity with Carlos Pascual

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Orientation Gallery)
Meet Mrs. Delaware America 2008, Lili Kohr