Tuesday, May 6
5–6:30 p.m. 
Rockefeller 001 

The Leslie Center for the Humanities presents a public conversation with artists Karla Rosas and Yehimi Cambrón on intergenerational skill-making knowledges and the embodied practices of fabric making. Poet and curator Beatriz Yanes Martinez, a PhD student in American studies at New York University, will serve as moderator.

Born in Mexico and raised in southeastern Louisiana, Rosas’ work challenges conventional depictions of migration by exploring immigrant experiences beyond linear narratives, documentation, and borders. A visual artist and language justice worker in New Orleans, her art practice encompasses painting, illustration, soft sculpture, assemblage, and embroidery.

Cambrón’s work explores the nuances of ‘undocumentedness’ and its thread in the movement toward collective liberation. Her work institutes a space for immigrants within the South’s dominant racial binary. From her first mural on Buford Highway to her mural at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, she confronts the idea of who is worthy of public celebration in the home of the largest Confederate monument in the nation.

A poet and curator, Martinez previously served as a curatorial mutual learning fellow at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art. They received their BA in Latin American studies from Carleton College, where their research was supported by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Their research interests include radical ecologies, histories of extraction, photography, aesthetics of refusal, counter-cartographies, and archives.