U.S. Latinx and Black American Art: Everywhere & Nowhere
September 21, 2018
On October 8th, 2018, DePauw’s Department of Art and Art History will host Naiomy Guerrero (‘12) and Kareen Dillon (‘12), who will give a public lecture, U.S. Latinx and Black American Art: Everywhere & Nowhere. Guerrero and Dillon are both DePauw Art History graduates who have made significant impacts in the art world through their work as curators, educators, and arts equity advocates.
Naiomy Guerrero is a Dominican-American art historian and arts equity advocate. She was raised traveling between the Bronx, Washington Heights, and the Dominican Republic. Her research focuses on highlighting contemporary Latinx artists born or long living in the U.S., their contributions to the cannon of U.S. art history and development of the Latinx art market. Guerrero’s work as a writer and on Instagram has long highlighted the intersection of blackness with the larger discourse of Latinx and Latin American art, and how that intersectionality has often been marginalized. Her research has been shared by NPR Latino, Artsy, and Teen Vogue.
Guerrero is the inaugural curatorial fellow of the Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Diversifying Art Museum Leadership 
Initiative. The two-year fellowship, endowed by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation, aims to offer curatorial training to young professionals from historically underrepresented groups in curatorial and museum leadership. She is Posse Foundation scholar, holds a B.A. in Art History from DePauw University, and has completed a year of graduate research and coursework towards a Master’s in Social Thought at New York University.
Kareen Dillon is an African American art educator who works at Success Academy Elementary Charter School in the Bronx NY. She was raised in Harlem, NY and currently resides in the Bronx. She holds a B.A in Art History from DePauw University and a Masters in Education and Special Education from Touro College. She is a Posse Scholar, DePauw Bonner Scholar. and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Dillon is in her third year of teaching Visual Arts and her daily work consists of educating scholars from K-4. Throughout the academic school year Dillon puts on two to three scholar art shows and curates the hallways of her school building. Dillon’s work as an art teacher has allowed her to instill the fundamental visual arts standards needed to increase scholar’s creativity, innovative thinking, and cognitive development. Her art curriculum highlights African-American artist that have broken barriers in the art world and use art to be their voice. Dillon uses these artists to deepen her scholars understanding about art and the world around them through discourse, which allow scholars to build on their social interaction, critical thinking, self-evaluation, and reflection skills.
This event is made possible through the Department of Art History Carol Bowers Norris Endowed Artists/Speakers Series Fund, Hubbard Center, and the Office of Student Academic Life.
U.S. Latinx and Black American Art: Everywhere & Nowhere
A Public Lecture by Naiomy Guerrero (‘12) and Kareen Dillon (‘12)
Monday, October 8th, 2018, 4:15pm
Peeler Auditorium
Reception immediately following in Peeler lobby