Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This document contains excerpts from a grant proposal submitted by Eduardo Carrillo to the National Endowment for the Humanities seeking traveling support for an exhibition of California Chicano art entitled Califas, Chicano Art and Culture in [...]

In this 2005 article, the Brazilian art critic Rodrigo Naves reviews the performance of the economist, banker and collector Edemar Cid Ferreira. The article focuses on his role as “spokesman” for Brazilian art in the national and international [...]

A committee was formed to call for the construction of schools due to the lack of educational institutions and the dearth of jobs and opportunities for the teachers who had recently graduated, as well as the older, unemployed educators. The plan was [...]

In this article, Víctor Alberto Grillet introduces Feliciano Carvallo as a “primitive artist,” discovered a year earlier by the painters Louys Rawlinson and Alirio Oramas and the Cuban writer María Luisa Gómez Mena in a small village on the [...]