Book Launch: Ruby Rumié – Tejiendo Calle/Weaving Streets
The event is free and open to the public. Please register in advance.
The artist Ruby Rumié and Kathleen Sutcliffe (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University) discuss the book Tejiendo Calle/Weaving Streets. The publication shows Rumié's new body of work of photographs of female street vendors from Cartagena, Colombia taken during a period of two years. The images shed new light on these vendors and their environment with the attempt to rescue these women and their invisibility in the urban landscape of Cartagena.
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Image: Cover of Tejiendo Calle/Weaving Streets published by Villegas Editores, Bogotá, 2018
The artist Ruby Rumié and John Hopkins Porfessor Kathleen Sutcliffe discuss Rumié's new body of work of photographs of female street vendors from Cartagena, Colombia.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Exhibition Funders
The exhibition Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Additional support is provided by the Export Promotion Agency of Costa Rica, PROCOMER, and by Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, the Smart Family Foundation of New York, Judko Rosenstock, The Cowles Charitable Trust, and an anonymous donor. The exhibition and publication received in-kind support from TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica.
Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the support from the Arts of the Americas Circle members: Estrellita Brodsky; Galeria Almeida e Dale; Kaeli Deane; Diana Fane; Alexandra García; Isabella Hutchinson; Carolina Jannicelli; Vivian Pfeiffer and Jeanette van Campenhout, Phillips; Luis Oganes; Roberto Redondo; Erica Roberts; Sharon Schultz; Herman Sifontes; Axel Stein; Edward J. Sullivan; and Juan Yarur Torres.
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