[act-ma] 3/11 founder the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP)

[Charlie Welch]

Carlota Duarte

Date: 3-11-2008
Time: 6:00 - 8:00
Location: 105 Shillman Hall
Northeastern University

In 1992 she founded the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP), and in 1996 
began the Indigenous Photography Archive, of which she is the 
coordinator. CPP involves Maya Indians in the state of Chiapas, and 
project activities include a training program and a collection, 
exhibitions, publications and other public activities, in both Mexico 
and abroad. In 2002 the project helped the photographers found their own 
organization Lok’tamayach/Maya Photographers from Chiapas. CPP and the 
work of the photographers have been widely covered in the Mexican, 
American and international press. Carlota received a Ford Foundation 
Individual award from 1995 to 2001. The Ford Foundation supported the 
Indigenous Photography Archive from 1996 to 2006. (excerpted from below)

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Northeastern University and the Department of Art + Design present:
Carlota Duarte, artist and photographer
will be sharing her experiences as part of our fourth annual artist 
lecture series.

Carlota Duarte is an artist who was active in Boston for many years. She 
has an MFA from Rhode Island school of Design, and her photographs and 
paintings have been exhibited and published in the USA, Mexico and 
Iceland. Her professional experience includes teaching U Mass-Lowell) 
and lecturing, as well as curating. Her book Odella, a hidden survivor 
was published in 1990. She is a Religious of the Sacred Heart, a member 
of the Society of the Sacred Heart, an international order of nuns 
committed to education for justice.

In 1985-1986 as part of a small research team, with institutional 
collaboration from the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, she 
traveled throughout Mexico to gather information about Mexican pictorial 
collections. The resulting research was published as Picture 
Collections: Mexico in 1988 (Scarecrow Press)

In 1992 she founded the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP), and in 1996 
began the Indigenous Photography Archive, of which she is the 
coordinator. CPP involves Maya Indians in the state of Chiapas, and 
project activities include a training program and a collection, 
exhibitions, publications and other public activities, in both Mexico 
and abroad. In 2002 the project helped the photographers found their own 
organization Lok’tamayach/Maya Photographers from Chiapas. CPP and the 
work of the photographers have been widely covered in the Mexican, 
American and international press. Carlota received a Ford Foundation 
Individual award from 1995 to 2001. The Ford Foundation supported the 
Indigenous Photography Archive from 1996 to 2006.

In 2004 CPP became a project of the Maya Education Foundation (MEF), a 
public charity in the US that supports the educational and professional 
development of Maya people. Contributions to MEF are tax deductible to 
the full extent permitted by law and will help CPP establish an 
endowment to support indigenous photography in Chiapas.

To learn more about the CPP, please read the NY Times article 
"Self-Portraits by Invisible People" by Carol Kino:
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/arts/design/23kino.html

CPP: www.chiapasphoto.org
MEF: www.mayaedufound.org, mayaedfund at aol.com

Admission: Free to the public

Directions & Campus map: www.northeastern.edu/campusmap/maps.html

Organizer: Department of Art + Design
Contact: Judy Ulman j.ulman at neu.edu

http://www.art.neu.edu/events/?eid=42