Visiting Artist talk by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Wow, don't miss it! Tues Sept 13
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 · 7 - 8 PM
Guillermo
Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue
and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico
City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 10 books have
contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and
US-Mexico relations. His art work has been presented at over eight
hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia,
South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book
Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines
in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama
Review (NYU-MIT). Gómez-Peña is a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric
Institute Institute of performance and Politics, a Patron for the
London-based Live Art Development Agency and in 2012 he was named Samuel
Hoi Fellow by USA Artists.