This special event celebrates the exhibition Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas, an exhibition that considers the profound impact of colonization, evangelization, and the transatlantic slave trade in the visual culture of the Spanish empire.

The works of art and student research from the Spring 2024 course that developed the exhibition recognize the creative agency and resilience of Indigenous, Black, and mixed-race artists during a tumultuous historical period bookended by conquest and revolution.

Andrew Weislogel, the Seymour R. Askin, Jr. ’47 Curator of Earlier European and American Art, and Juliana Fagua Arias, PhD student in the History of Art, provide a brief overview of the exhibition’s conception, development, and resulting research.