Flora and Fauna in Frida Kahlo’s Art, Garden, and Life: Lecture by Adriana Zavala, PhD

Saturday, September 25 | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Dr. Zavala, curator of the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Art Garden Life (New York Botanical Garden 2015), will explore the importance of flora and fauna to Frida Kahlo’s creativity. Her lecture will offer a close examination of several of the artist’s most important paintings and will also consider how Kahlo’s self-adornment and the creative arrangement of her home and garden were equally important modes of creative and cultural expression.

Fee: $15 ($8 member); $5 student with ID

Lecturer: Adriana Zavala, PhD, Associate Professor in History of Art and Architecture and Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University

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About the Speaker

Adriana Zavala is Associate Professor at Tufts University where she holds a joint-appointment in the departments of History of Art and Architecture and Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies. She earned a PhD in Art History from Brown University. She is the author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women Gender and Representation in Mexican Art (2010);  Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life (2015); Lola Álvarez Bravo: The Photography of an Era (2011);  A New Art: The Contribution of Maria Izquierdo (2008);  and with co-author Delia Cosentino, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan in Mexico City, 1915-1964 (forthcoming). Along with specializing in modern Mexican art she is a scholar and advocate of U.S. Latinx artists and Chicanx/Latinx art history. She is founding Director of the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (uslaf.org) an organization dedicated to advancing scholarship, writing, and exhibitions of U.S. Latinx art and visual culture.