Last Week to See the Exhibition "The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos"

Sara Maneiro's photographs of teeth, titled Berenice's Grimace / Mueca de Berenice is on view at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. The exhibition The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos will close on Saturday, May 9th.

This is the final week to view the exhibition, The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos at the University of Wyoming Art Museum. The exhibition will close on Saturday, May 9th. The museum will be open this week, 10 am - 5 pm, through Saturday. The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos features the work of 26 Latin American artists who through their artwork, explore themes of memory, remembering, and metaphor. Utilizing various different techniques, each of these artists is responding to the military dictatorships, violence and murder that occurred in numerous Latin American countries in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Information about the exhibition is available in English and Spanish, and a bi-lingual cell phone audio tour is also available, free of charge.

Kate Doyle to Speak at the Art Museum

Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst for the National Security Archive, will present an Art Talk on Monday, April 13 at 7 pm. Her presentation, Exhumations: Appeaering the Disappeared - Uncovering Repressive Archives in the Recovery of Historical Memory in Latin America will focus on uncovering the truth of military actions in latin America durign the mid-20th century and the people who disappeared as a result.

Doyle's visit is scheduled in conjunction with The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos currently on view in the Art Museum. The National Security Archive campaigns for the citizen's right to know, investiages U.S. national security adn foregin policy, and uses the Freedom of Information Act to obtain and publish declassified U.S. documents. Doyle directs several research projects on U.S. policy in Latin America for the archive. Since 1992, she has worked with truth commissions in Latim America, including El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to obtain records from secret U.S. government archives in support of thier human rights investigations. The National Security Archive is at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

For more information on The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos, click here.

For information on the University of Wyoming Art Museum, click here.

Big Weekend of Events as the UW Art Museum reopens its Galleries

Ana Tiscornia (Uruguay, lives in New York), Portraits II,

13 sections, 14 x 11 ea, portraits orverlaid with translucent film (detail)

Courtesy of the North Dakota Museum of Art

After a year long closure to renovations and upgrades, the UW Art Museum will open its galleries on Friday evening, March 6. Curator of the exhibition, Laurel Reuter (director, North Dakota Museum of Art) will be in attendance.

The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos fills the museum's more than 10,000 sq ft of exhibition space with the work of 26 Latin American artists who have lived through the horrors of the military dictatorships that ruled their countries over the last 30 years.

Public programs scheduled with the exhibition include:

Fri., Mar. 5, 10:30 am
Gallery Walk through the exhibition with Laurel Reuter, curator

Fri., Mar. 5, 6 - 8 pm
Opening Reception

Sat., Mar. 6, 10 am
Art Talk by Laurel Reuter

Mon., Mar. 9, 7 pm
Screening of the film Missing (Costa-gravas, director, 1982) with Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemon in a suspense thriller based on the rel life experience of American journalist Charles Horman and his wife's and father's search to find him after he disappeared in Chile

All of these events are free and open to the public.

For The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos press release, click here.

For the Missing press release, click here.

For additional information about these and other programs at the University of Wyoming Art Museum, click here.

Art Museum Celebrates Re-Opening of Galleries

Invitation to the opening of The Disappeared/ Los Desaparecidos
with the artwork of Luis Gonzales Palma
Tana Stith, graphic design; photo courtesy of the North Dakota Museum of Art

On March 6, 2009, the University of Wyoming Art Museum re-opens its galleries with a major, internationally touring exhibition called The Disappeared / Los Desaparecidos. Curated by Laurel Reuter, director and chief curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art, the exhibition presents the work of 26 Latin American artists who have incorporated their personal and cultural experiences of the "disappeared."

A series of public programs are being planned. Schedule to date includes:

Fri., Mar. 6; 10:30 am
Gallery Walkthrough with Laurel Reuter, curator

Fri., Mar. 6; 6 - 8 pm
Opening Reception

Sat., Mar. 7; 7 pm
Art Talk with Laurel Reuter, curator

Mon., Mar. 30; 7 pm
An evening of music and poetry featuring UW pianist Rubia Santos and UW music students

Mon. Apr. 13; 7 pm
Art Talk with Kate Doyle, senior analyst, National Security Archives

For information on The Disappeared, visit the UW Art Museum webpage.