Heyy everyone, so this is a relatively late introduction, but my name is Cindy (she/her) and I'm a third-year transfer majoring in art history. I am still considering what my minor will be, but Chicano Studies is a top contender. My interests and career plans with art history relate to art conservation, especially within museums. I hope to someday help facilitate the repatriation of artworks that were acquired in, shall we say, less than equitable circumstances (i.e., imperialism). I am grateful for the opportunity to do a ten-week internship at the Straus Center for Conservation at the Harvard Art Museums this coming summer; hopefully it will all go well!
I am looking forward to taking this class for a variety of reasons, one aspect being the opportunity to learn about art while also making art. I feel that I have been so busy lately that I hardly have the time or energy to draw or paint even half as much as I used to. Also, it feels like a failing on my part to be a) a budding art historian and b) someone who identifies as Chicana and still somehow be mostly ignorant about the work of Chicana-identified artists. So I want to rectify this. I do, however, remember encountering Professor Lopez's work in a survey class on "post-Columbian Latino art" I took a couple years ago before transferring, and I think it's a privilege to be able to learn from her.
This is going to be an amazing quarter, I hope I get to know some of you over this next quarter!!
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