To celebrate the opening of the exhibition De Lo Mío, a group exhibition curated by Tiffany Alfonseca, Jenkins Johnson Gallery presented Conversations on Culture featuring De Lo Mío artists Tiffany Alfonseca, Uzumaki Cepeda, Veronica Fernandez, Monica Hernandez, Joiri Minaya, and Bianca Nemelc along with César García-Alvarez, Chief Curator and Founding Director of The Mistake Room and Karen Jenkins-Johnson. The artists along with García-Alvarez explored their ongoing interest in their generation’s evolving connections to her motherland, The Dominican Republic, as well as the ways the exhibition will paint identity as a spectrum through which multiple personal and collective pasts as well as lived experiences come to forge how people exist.
Additional Reading Materials:
- April J. Mayes - The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
- Milagros Ricourt - The Domincan Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
- Ginetta E.B. Candelario - Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
- Lorgia García-Peña - The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
- Elizabeth Acevedo - The Poet X
- Angie Cruz - Dominicana
- Claudia Milian - LatinX