CUNY Class Information
Instructor: Arianne M Fernandez
CUNY Campus: LaGuardia CC
Course Title: Latin American Art
Course number: HUA-196
International Class Information
Instructor: Cristián Salineros – Fillat
Partnership institution/ country: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile
Class title: Taller Central
ART0501-6-Fridays, 2-6pm (In person)
Length of COIL Collaboration: 6 weeks
Project Description
In History and contemporaneity of pre-Hispanic and contemporary art practices,
students will create an art project (can be a single large format work or a series) based
on one of five pre-Columbian pieces selected by the instructors. By re-interpreting the
piece, students will highlight the cultural, historical, and spiritual importance of these
artifacts and how institutions have appropriated them, and how their meaning changes
depending on the context. The objective of this task is to use the pre-Columbian work
as a starting point where the student will explore how such objects are appropriated and
recreate the piece while addressing a contemporary global problem in Latin America
(climate change, inequality, violence, post-colonialism, human rights, etc.) indirectly.
The piece can be in any material of choice or technique: painting, photography,
sculpture, printmaking, video, collage, etc.
Online Platforms
Throughout the duration of the project, students will be communicating via Zoom,
Slack and Padlet. There will be a session hosted by Prof. Fernandez on how to use
these tools.
