"These Americas", HCUAP Artist Talk

Learn about the artistic trajectory of three visiting artists in the HCUAP Visiting Artists in Residence Program: Tomas Ives, from Santiago Chile, Ish Muhammad of Indiana and New York, and Gloria “Gloe” Talamantes, a first-generation Mexican-American living in Chicago. Their work differently reflects on the experience of the Americas as a plural place with vibrant histories. With different backgrounds in style writing, printmaking, graphic design and journalism, all three visiting artists do high impact work connected to communities in the public realm.
Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Project (HCUAP, pronounced, “hiccup”) seeks to create platforms for conversation and education about urban art production (graffiti, street art and muralism, among other genres) to explore aesthetic and historical connections between post-industrial cities. Beginning in 2016 they have sustained programming that focused on the intercultural exchange between the post-industrial cities like Pittsburgh, Chicago, Mexico and León Guanajuato Mexico.