Our partners in Peru will speak about current research on Andean cultural heritage and the ongoing collaborations with Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Krannert Art Museum on the Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition project. En español e inglés.
Panelists include:
• Carmela Alacron Ledesma, Co-Director for the Huanangue Valley Archaeology Project
• Sofía Chacaltana-Cortéz, Full Professor at the Jesuit University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya
• Edinson Ernesto Delgado Estela, Director of the Museo Hermogenes Mejía Solf in Jaén, Peru
• Henry Marcello Castillo, Director of the Arturo Ruiz Estrada Archaeology Museum at the National University; José Faustino Sánchez Carrión del Perú
Presented in person at Krannert Art Museum, Lower level, Auditorium (KAM 62), and via Zoom.
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Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The Fragmented Histories exhibition was made possible with support from the University of Illionis Presidental Initiative to Celebrate the Arts and Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom, the Helen Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Rosann Gelvin Noel Krannert Art Museum Fund, and M.H. Carragher Memorial Fund.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
Image: Detail of a fragment of a Woman’s Dress. Chancay, Central Coast, Peru, 1000 CE –1470 CE. Cotton, pigment. 20 x 52 ½. 1967-29-572.
