Join us for an afternoon with the Hostos Archives to celebrate its new digital repository showcasing the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) Collection. The event will launch the open-access portal Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York, an online gallery containing a dazzling array of exhibition catalogs and other primary sources at your fingertips. As part of the celebration, we will host Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian. Her talk will focus on MoCHA as a trailblazing and innovative museum exhibiting Latinx/e artists not traditionally recognized by mainstream art institutions in the U.S. and Latin America.
 

WHEN

Thursday, April 4, at 3:30 PM
 

WHERE

Hostos Research Center (C–130)

450 Grand Concourse 

Bronx, NY 10451

 

Housed at Hostos since the 1990s, the MoCHA Collection documents the history of the organization once based in Lower Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. From its opening in 1985 until its closing in 1990, the museum was at the vanguard of promoting and exhibiting Latinx/e and Latin American artists who were underrepresented in the city’s foremost art venues. Despite its untimely closing, MoCHA’s influence endured as many of its once-resident artists rose to prominence during the following decade and beyond. Now one of the archives' most sought-after collections, the MoCHA Collection, will continue to tell the story of its founders and artists in the digital age. Come and celebrate our new online gallery with an afternoon filled with art, history, and culture.

Please RSVP here.
 

About Taína Caragol

Taína Caragol, the curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history at the National Portrait Gallery, specializes in Latinx and Latin American art. Her work emphasizes the recovery of histories erased by colonialism and the validation of this art in institutions and the market. Since joining in 2013, she's expanded the gallery's Latinx portraits by over 250. Caragol holds a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Puerto Rico, an M.A. in French Studies from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in Art History from The Graduate Center, CUNY.