Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: hazel batrezchavez

TIME CHANGE: THIS LECTURE WILL NOW START AT 5:15 PM

“Enacting Radical Futures Beyond Survival Mode, an artist talk by hazel batrezchavez”

hazel batrezchavez is a brown queer artist and educator. Their textiles, performance, and sculptural works are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement.

batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Loom Indigenous Gallery (NM), Southern Exposure (CA), SOMA (MX), Radford Museum of Art (VA), ICOSA Collective (TX), Higher Art Gallery (MI) among many others. batrezchavez received their BFA in Anthropology and Studio Art from Grinnell College and their MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Mexico.

hazel batrezchavez (Stolen Land, b. 1994) descends from the Nauhua, Lenca, and Mayan peoples of Kuskatán (El Salvador) and Tamaulipas, Mexico. Currently, they live and work as an artist and educator in Tiwa, Tewa, and Pueblo Territory (Albuquerque, NM). They are a founding member of the fronteristxs Collective and Granadina Co-op.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series 2024-2025: The Rage of Wildness: Radical Futures. This lecture series will highlight artists creating dialogues and radical gestures that envision a future beyond colonial thinking. We will explore practices that operate in a mode of unknowing, decoloniality, resistance to dominant ontologies, disruption of imposed order, engagement with indigeneity, queerness, and ecological perspectives.

An endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students.  The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community.  All lectures are free and open to the public.

A weeknight or daytime permit is now required after 5:00 pm on weekdays. No permit is required from 5:00 pm Friday through 7:30 am Monday. A $1.00 one-night pass is available in selected lots. More information can be found HERE.

Artist website: https://hazelbatrezchavez.info/

Image: hazel batrezchavez