2024 LEAP into Action Grant Proposal. “The 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Art Exhibition: art history meets skills training through experiential learning.”
This project merges art history education with skills training and pioneers a new teaching model. It integrates the acquisition of art historical knowledge with the application of practical skills to create an art exhibition honoring Hispanic Heritage Month. This initiative aims to enhance appreciation and understanding of students of Latin American descent, who make up 16.3% of the total University of North Georgia student population. A key goal is to provide UNG students with a comprehensive educational experience that prepares them for employment upon graduation.
Students will explore well-known traditions and established artists in Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art history alongside unfamiliar artwork entries from the invitational exhibition Roots, and they will be encouraged to draw parallels between them. They will demonstrate their findings through class presentations called “curatorial integrations” and “deep dive integrations,” connecting information from lectures and readings with themes, styles, and contexts detectable in the exhibition entries. Having established these parallels, they will write substantial and well-supported curatorial statements, artwork entries, and speeches to be presented in the exhibition space. Meanwhile, workshop-style class meetings will provide students with the hands-on training necessary to produce an art exhibition.
Roots - UNG 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Art Exhibition is up and looking awesome. Check it out whenever the Library and Technology Center in Dahlonega is open (every day except Saturdays). And mark your calendars for the Guest Artists' Panel and Closing Reception! These talented artists will discuss their works and perspectives on art making. Tuesday, November 19th, from 4-6 pm, Room 382 Library and Technology Center, UNG Dahlonega. All artists will attend in person except Octavio Battaglia, who will be available for questions virtually, from Argentina.
Caldas's work explores the human body and maternity through a mixed media installation, while Gomez-Beuth's paintings reflect on vulnerable dreams and inspiring muses. Gonzalez Diaz's photographs elevate Mexican Americans in Georgia and challenge stereotypes surrounding them. Solis examines personal dreams combined with a critique of colonialism. Battaglia's expressionist drawings investigate urban experiences impacting older adults. Join us for an in-depth discussion of the complex themes these artists address through art, and in their dialogue with Latin American and Latinx artistic traditions.
See you there! Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.