Colleagues & Friends: Karen Vidangos, Dulcina Abreu, Nicole Calderón
Wednesday, November 15, 8:30–10AM EST
Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery • 145 E 57th Street, 3rd Floor, New York
Join us on November 15 for a Colleagues & Friends that will bring together a curator, gallerist, and social media manager to discuss their experiences as Latinas in the arts. Karen Vidangos, Social Media Manager for the Guggenheim Museum and Founder of Latinx Art Collective, Dulcina Abreu, independent curator, artist, and museum advocate, and Nicole Calderón, Founder and Director of Calderón will explore the challenges, opportunities, and barriers they have faced and how each has worked to elevate Latinx art throughout their careers.
The discussion will take place at Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, one of the foremost sources for important Latin American Contemporary and Vintage Photography, antique Pre-Columbian artworks and Chinese Jade and Antiquities.
Members - $10 | Non-members - $20
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About the Speakers
Karen Vidangos is the founder of Latinx Art Collective, and Social Media Manager for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. As a social media specialist, Vidangos has created engaging strategies to support the Obama Portraits Tour and the 2019 American Portrait Gala for the National Portrait Gallery, as well as the strategy and launch of Glenstone Museum’s social media presence timed with their expansion reopening in 2017. Known online as “Latina in Museums,” Vidangos uses the digital space to explore and elevate underrepresented Latinx perspectives in the arts.
Dulcina Abreu is a Dominican-born independent curator, artist, and museum advocate currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Abreu’s work explores 21st-century visual and material culture from the Caribbean Diaspora in the US, immigration, LGBTQI+ community organizing, mutual-aid economies, and digital activism. She served as the Consulting Curator for the Smithsonian’s NMAH September 11th 20th Anniversary, as well as the NYC Latino 9-11 collecting initiative and NYC Latino COVID-19 project to expand the national narrative with Latino/a New Yorker stories and material culture. Abreu was awarded a Fall ‘22 curatorial fellowship for her project, Estilazo, as part of the curatorial open call of the Latinx Project at NYU.
Nicole Calderón is the Founder and Director of Calderón, a space that champions artists and prioritizes institutional relationships and placements to make permanent and publicly accessible contributions to culture and art history. Calderón previously worked with Tina Kim Gallery in New York as Managing Director. She was also Director at Timothy Taylor in New York where she forecast the 2020/2021 growth of the Latinx art market by producing the first exhibition at the gallery of contemporary works by artists from the Latin diaspora. Calderón holds a double BA in Studio Arts and History of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Kent State. She was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently resides in Philadelphia.
About the venue
Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery was founded by Spencer Throckmorton in 1980 and has become one of the foremost sources for important Latin American Contemporary and Vintage Photography, antique Pre-Columbian artworks and Chinese Jade and Antiquities. Their exhibits gather some of the finest photography, lithographs, illustrations, and antiquities from around the world.