{"id":3947,"date":"2011-05-17T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2011-05-17T13:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:10:03","slug":"uccs-to-celebrate-cuban-diasporic-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"UCCS to celebrate Cuban diasporic artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cubatransnational.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/cuba-transnational.html\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3948\" title=\"cubafinal-001\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cubafinal-001-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cuba Transnational event poster\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u201cCuba Transnational,\u201d a project conceived and coordinated by Andrea Herrera, professor, Department of Women\u2019s and Ethnic Studies, will highlight creativity in the Cuban diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>The first series of events are five art exhibitions including a photography installation at Kraemer Family Library and four public multimedia art exhibits opening May 28 at Pueblo\u2019s Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. All of the exhibitions feature multigenerational groups of Cuban diasporic artists who seek to preserve the nation\u2019s artistic and cultural identity through their work.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera serves as a curator for the art exhibitions.She recently published a book on Cuban diasporic art \u201cCuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against the House.\u201d The publisher is University of Texas press.<\/p>\n<p>A host of other events are planned\u00a0including several poetry readings, musical and theatrical performances, including the off-Broadway play \u201cRum and Coke,\u201d symposia, and lectures. Herrera and Maura Rainey, instructor, Department of Languages and Cultures, will also teach a course \u201cThe Cuban Diasporic Experience\u201d this fall. The class is offered as an open learning community.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about \u201cCuba Transnational\u201d visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/west\">www.uccs.edu\/west<\/a> or\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cubatransnational.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/cubatransnational.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cCuba Transnational,\u201d a project conceived and coordinated by Andrea Herrera, professor, Department of Women\u2019s and Ethnic Studies, will highlight creativity in the Cuban diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>The first series of events are five art exhibitions including a photography installation at Kraemer Family Library and four public multimedia art exhibits opening May 28 at Pueblo\u2019s Sangre de Cristo Arts Center.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=3947\" title=\"UCCS to celebrate Cuban diasporic artists\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cubafinal-001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-11F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}