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first term – than any previous administration.

It deported 225,390 in fiscal 2012 but says most were the criminal type or ne’er-dowells who wouldn’t be welcomed anyway anywhere.

About that noble phrase of “give me your tired…, ” The problem now is that we don’t know what to do with so nce upon a time immi- many immigrants and the gration to the U.S. was a issues they bring with them. big thing. People from Once we welcomed all. all foreign territories came to Now we’re getting pretty this land to share with the picky about whom we let in. originals, the Native The biggest group of deporAmericans. In a way, it con- tees is the illegal Latinos. tinues to this day: We’re basiOf the 11 million or so cally still a nation of immi- illegal residents in the U.S, grants but with an American 8.9 million are from Mexico, imprimatur.

Central America and the The inscription on the Caribbean. Less than 1 milStatue of Library by author lion are from the other Latin Emma Lazarus, says “Give Me American countries.

Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Congress is now involved Huddled Masses Yearning To in producing immigration Breathe Free, The Wretched reform but as the days go by, Refuse Of Your Teeming there may be a lot of political Shore. Send Those Homeless, skirmishes and posturing and Tempest-Tossed To Me.” distortion of the issues that You might think that today make the passage of any something has been lost in meaningful reform more the translation. problematical and invasive.

Uncle Sam no longer What makes all this the seems to be in a welcoming more interesting are the playmood. He’s now more into ers and, naturally, the politics searching the country far and they bring into the issue. wide to determine who’s welThe main actor in this come and who’s not and social drama is first-term booting out those who aren’t. senator, Marco Rubio, of The Obama administra- Florida whose parents immition, once considered a sym- grated – Rubio would prefer pathizer of immigration they be known as Castro’s reform, particularly where it Cuba refugees which they are involved Latinos, claims the not – to the U.S. distinction of deporting more Rubio, who had an allillegals – 1.5 million in its American upbringing – has

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taken up the cause fervently and though only a junior senator, is a member of the “Gang of Eight” Senate committee which drew up immigration overhaul legislation which the upper chamber passed, 68-32.

Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y – who led the Gang of 8 – predicted the House would approve the legislation which provides a 13-year path to citizenship but first securing the border along with a host of demands on the path to legalization.

Detractors, mostly in the lower chamber, say it will happen when the fat lady sings.

It didn’t take long for Republican House Speaker, John Boehner, to kiss off the Senate legislation as fluff and bluster that still needs to be reconciled with a House measure which may put a damper on the euphoria among the senators who seem confident that finally the immigration issue has been clearly defined and clearly resolved.

Boehner said, “I issued a statement that I thought was pretty clear, but apparently some haven’t gotten the message: the House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the Senate passes. We’re going to do our own bill.”

Surprisingly, or maybe not surprisingly, another first term Cuban senator from Texas, Republican Ted Cruz, opposes the legislation “in the name of humanity” saying

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the Gang of 8 legislation fails to secure the border and has proposed a system “that perpetuates human tragedy.”

I think he means a lot of people, illegals, drug dealers and whatnots are getting killed doing whatever they do along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Even Jeb Bush, a prospective presidential candidate in 2016, got in on the act saying Republicans must stop being an obstacle to immigration reform saying, among other things, immigrants are “more fertile and they love families.”

That prompted New York Magazine to tweet, “Give us your tired, your poor, your more fertile immigrants.”

Carlos D. Conde, awardwinning journalist and commentator, former Washington and foreign news correspondent, was an aide in the Nixon White House and worked on the political campaigns of George Bush Sr. To reply to this column, contact Cdconde@aol.com.

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CONTENTS Muralist Raúl Valdez Makes the Community His Canvas by Frank DiMaria

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Kahlo Inspires and Intrigues Audiences in New Exhibits by Marilyn Gilroy

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Exhibit Reveals Influence of Latino Migration in 13 Southeastern Connecticut by Gary M. Stern

Spanish Old Master Paintings Re-Installed at the Met by Michelle Adam

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NALIP Supports Hispanics in Visual Arts Community by Diana Saenger

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have all heard the expression “art for art’s sake.” It seems to imply that there is no other purpose for art than its aesthetics. Unfortunately, this narrow view prompts calls for austerity when it comes to funding and expanding art education programs not only in K-12 classrooms, but in colleges and universities as well. It’s no secret that when it comes to funding higher education and K-12 programs, sports trumps the arts. On the college level, sports can generate big money for schools for everything from media licensing to hosting lucrative regional conferences. As for art, it really does have to exist on its own for its own sake.

This is the time of the year that Hispanic Outlook celebrates art – not just for art’s sake, but for what it contributes to society. For Latinos art has been the customary way to pass along traditions, history, aspirations and frustrations. This has been reflected in the old masters on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the dramatic Latino Migration Exhibit in Connecticut, as well as the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – all of which are lauded in this issue. But not all great Hispanic art can be found in museums. Raúl Valdez makes neighborhoods the canvas for his art as a means of galvanizing ethnic communities. He’s featured in this issue as well. Perhaps we should revise the expression “art for art’s sake,” to “art for all our sakes.” That is a more accurate “portrait” of the value of art in society – especially Hispanic society. ¡Adelante!

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César Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement

By Roger Bruns César Chavez and the farm workers movement still inspires a sense of pride and purpose among Latinos fighting for personal rights, political power, and economic well-being. Many young volunteers in the farmworkers movement continue to fight for progressive causes today. This book shows how these migrant workers found a champion in Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union and how social and political change can sometimes result from the vision, leadership, and commitment of a few dedicated individuals determined not to fail.

2011. 198 pgs. ISBN: 978-03133-86503. $35.00. Cloth.

ABC-CLIO Books, Santa Barbara, Calif. (800)368-6868, www.abc-clio.com.

Coda: A Novel

By Rene Belletto, translated by Alyson Waters Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the “almost-perpetual motion machine” invented by the narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in motion is a package of frozen seafood. This triggers a series of events, from the storyteller’s meeting with Fate disguised as a beautiful woman, to the kidnapping of his daughter, to his amorous reunion with the younger half-sister of a high school friend, to the elimination of death from the world.

2011. 88 pgs. ISBN: 978-0-8032-2441-4. $13.95. Paper.

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The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Hispanic Popular Culture

By Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans’s collection of essays makes a return with 21 colorful essays and conversations that deliver Stavans’s trademark wit and provocative analysis. He writes with incisive intelligence about such luminaries as Cantinflas, Sandra Cisneros, Subcomandante Marcos, the artist José Guadalupe Posada, and the pop singer Selena, as well as about Latin American political figures.

2012. 224 pgs. ISBN: 978-0-8263-5256-9. $27.95. paper.

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, N.M., (505) 277 2346. www.unmpress.com.

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

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by Victor M. Ríos 2011, 237 pgs. NYU Press, ISBN: 978-0814776384. $21.00. paper.

author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Victor Ríos, grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, Calif. in the 1980s and 90s, so when he speaks about how young Black and Latino men are treated in those neighborhoods he knows of what he speaks. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Ríos was one of the lucky ones. He managed to avoid the tragic outcomes many of his friends experienced and earned a Ph.D. at Berkeley and returned to Oakland to see if he could shed light on what life is like for inner city young Latino and African-American boys. Imagine how a sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing can be distorted.

Punished reveals how very difficult the lives of these young men are not only on streets where they face punitive policies, but also in their schools, communities, and a world where they are constantly policed and stigmatized.

The author studied a group of 40 delinquent Black and Latino boys for three years. These boys found themselves in a vicious cycle, caught in a downward spiral of punishment and incarceration as they were harassed, profiled, watched, and disciplined at young ages, even before they had committed any crimes, eventually leading many of them to fulfill the destiny expected of them.

Ríos says he attempted to understand the processes by which marginalized boys become enmeshed in punishment.

He argues that a system of punitive social control held a grip on the minds and trajectories of the boys in the study. What this study demonstrated, he wrote, is that the poor, at least in this community, have not been abandoned by the state.

Instead, the state has become deeply embedded in their everyday lives, through the auspices of punitive social control.

The author’s aim is best expressed in his own words. “My ambition in this book is to show the failures of criminalization, the failures of using harsh, stigmatizing, and humiliating forms of punishment to ‘correct’ and ‘manage’ marginalized youths, as well as to highlight the consequences that these methods have on young people’s trajectories,” Ríos wrote.

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys is part of the New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law Series published by NYU Press. It has received the 2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association was a 2012 Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Study of Social Problems.

Reviewed Mary Ann Cooper

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by Frank DiMaria hen muralist Raúl Valdez paints one of his works, it’s never about him – it’s about the community. During the process he and community volunteers canvas the neighborhood, going door-to-door asking residents what they want to see every day, what they want to live with. “I didn’t get this from anyone. In 1974 I decided to do a little old mural.

We were doing it in a neighborhood. So I got a little group together and we took off. I said, ‘Go knock on those peoples’ doors, and tell them we’re going to be doing this and they’re going to be seeing it every day.’ That was my approach from then until now,” says Valdez.

Ideas about a mural are not all that Valdez and his volunteers solicit. They also encourage community members to assist with the entire process. “We ask, ‘What can you do? Can you paint? Can you draw? Are you a carpenter? Can you make tacos?’ People can contribute and be a part of the whole process,” says Valdez.

The process of creating a mural, in some ways, is more important than the finished product, at least for Valdez. When volunteers participate in creating a work of art, one they will live with for years, the mural becomes theirs. “It’s about ownership,” he says.

Valdez has been creating community murals for about 40 years, and it’s not unusual for 300 or more volunteers to take part in the process, especially when he works with schools.

“Years later I get 40-year-olds coming around and saying ‘I

painted that,’ or they’ll say ‘Do you remember me? I painted here back in 1981.’ These guys have big old beards and gray hair,” says Valdez.

Since painting his first mural in the mid-70s, Valdez estimates that he has painted about 50 murals in several states and abroad. “That’s not that many, I work slow,” he says. Most all of his murals are embraced by the communities in which they reside. One was so beloved that its demolition spawned a mass protest from residents of the community.

In 1977, Juarez-Lincoln University commissioned Valdez to paint some murals inside and outside of one of its buildings that stood on the corner of César Chavez Street and Interstate Highway 35 in East Austin. He named the one he created on the outside “Los Elementos” or “The Elements.” “It could be seen by anyone heading south on Interstate Highway 35,” says Valdez.

When the university relocated in 1984, the building was torn down along with Valdez’s murals, but not without a fight from community members. “The building was a university bought with federal funds, I won’t get into any details, I might be wrong, but it was sold illegally, I think. I could be totally mistaken, which I’m not,” says Valdez.

To Valdez and members of the community it was more than the demolition of a beloved work of art, it was about the gentrification of a neighborhood. At the time of the demolition Austin’s local news covered the story. Many of those who came out to protest were fearful they would be squeezed out of their own neighborhood as more and more homes and community centers were demolished to make way for commercial properties. They felt victimized by commercialization. One woman interviewed by a local news outlet at the time said she was saddened to realize there are people in the world who do not believe that Hispanics have a culture and should not exist at all. Some Hispanics felt the demolition of the mural was a slap in the face.

“People were displaced after (the demolition). Right now it’s turning into a mess there. People lost their homes, people died, a lot of elderly people didn’t survive this relocation. This is serious community stuff.

It’s not about murals, it’s about communities and people. It’s about representing people,” says Valdez.

On the day the city brought its wrecking cranes to demolish Valdez’s mural, memControversial images found in murals by Raúl Valdez have created important dialogues in communities. bers of the community came out in droves

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to protest, and with protesters came the police. Traffic backed up for miles as people abandoned their cars in the middle of the street to join in the protest. Protesters lined César Chavez Street carrying placards decrying the demolition and waving Mexican flags.

“People were up in arms after they found out that this building was going to be destroyed.

People were not saying ‘Don’t tear down the building,’ they were saying ‘Don’t tear down our mural,’” Valdez says emphasizing the word mural. “In my view it was kind of a successful thing...it was an affirmation that I was actually painting for the community,” says Valdez.

Currently an IHop sits on the former site of Juárez-Lincoln University, a fact that makes Valdez’s skin crawl when he thinks about it, he says. “I think it’s really imporMurals created by Raúl Valdez project a theme of unity and inclusiveness. tant that we pay attention to what people actually think or value - family and that kind of stuff - instead of being taken over by the big guys, bankers remind residents of the town’s unpleasant history, with scenes and whatever. This is human history,” says Valdez. of a Mexican and Comanche raid and slaves working in a cot“Los Elementos” was not the only Valdez mural that caused ton field. Ultimately, says Valdez, the students came up with the controversy within a community. When Bastrop High School in idea and painted the entire mural.

Bastrop, Texas, outside of Austin, commissioned him to create Being proud of their mural, the students of Bastrop High a mural in 2003, Valdez charged the students of Bastrop to invited resident Lauren Hansell, a parent who was homedevelop a theme for the mural. They came up with universal schooling her children at the time but who would visit the brotherhood and peace. “A very positive kind of a thing,” says school on Fridays to encourage students to pray at the flagpole, Valdez. Students researched the theme and provided Valdez and go into the school to see the mural. She took them up on with ideas for the iconography. The mural presents unifying their offer and was none too pleased with the work. “‘Whoa, visions of children of different ethnicities reaching out to one we got to end this,’ she said. Because Shiva is celebrating aboranother. The Chinese culture is represented by the Buddha tion and a whole bunch of other stuff,” says Valdez. and the Indian culture is represented by Shiva dancing on the Convinced the mural was blasphemous, she went to the demon of ignorance. In addition it features images that school board to convince them the same, saying that it represented a new age idea of peace and unity that could be confusing to Christian students.

“She really worked hard at trying to get it removed. They asked me to come by for a school board presentation. I went but (I refused to speak) let the teachers and the students talk. It’s not like I can’t talk or explain myself, I wanted them to own it. And they did and they did a fine job,” says Valdez.

The Bastrop school board voted to keep the mural. As Valdez puts it, the students of Bastrop High painted a cultural presentation that was not religious in nature at all.

For nearly 40 years Valdez, who spent two years fighting in Vietnam, has been painting for communities, using his talent to tell the stories of those communities.

“The important thing is to seek truth. It’s crazy what is going on now. We need an explanation for wars. You can’t just go to war and kill people for nothing... We need The A.B. Cantu/Pan American Recreation Center hillside stage mural, originally painted in 1978

by Raúl Valdez and later restored in 2012. human respect and dignity,” says Valdez.

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Kahlo Inspires and Intrigues Audiences in New Exhibits

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by Marilyn Gilroy

exican artist Frida Kahlo continues to capture the public’s imagination with her paintings, politics and personal style which is why she is once again the subject of major museum exhibitions and media attention.

It has been decades since the advent of “Fridamania,” a trend that began in the 1990s but received a big boost in 2002, when the biographical movie, Frida, was released in which Salma Hayek played Kahlo. That movie and subsequent art events, books and articles raised Kahlo to almost a cult status.

Famous personalities began collecting her work, including Madonna, who said she “identified with Kahlo’s pain and sadness.” The U.S. postal service put Kahlo’s image on a first-class stamp, making her the first Hispanic woman to receive such an honor.

This year, art historians and curators are taking another look at how Kahlo’s life and work still influences new generations of artists and how her beliefs about Mexican politics affected her painting. During her lifetime, Kahlo created approximately 200 paintings, drawings and sketches reflecting her experiences in life, her physical and emotional pain, and her stormy relationship with her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist, Diego Rivera.

Earlier this year, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, organized a major

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show of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, calling them the two central figures of Mexican modernism. The exhibit, “Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting,” featured more than 120 works primarily drawn from the collection of Mexico’s Dolores Olmedo as well as the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art. According to exhibit curators, the myths that surrounded the two artists during their lifetime arose not only from their significant body of work, but also from their active participation in the historical happenings of the time.

“Their art speaks of a fierce loyalty to and pride in Mexico, the ideals of the 1910 Mexican Revolution and their commitment to the conditions of the common man,” said Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. The exhibit paired works

by Kahlo and Rivera chronologically and according to themes, including maternity, Mexican identity and portraiture.

“Frida & Diego” also examined the ways their work continues to influence Mexican artists, with two Frida- and Diego-inspired reading rooms designed by award-winning contemporary Mexican designers, Hector Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena. One reading room design featured a bold red version of Kahlo’s unique bed, while the other featured a colorful and whimsical yellow installation inspired by

the game of musical chairs.

Like previous museums that presented Kahlo exhibits, the High enjoyed a robust public response. “The exhibition has been very well received by our audiences, and we’ve welcomed more than 130,000 people to the museum,” said Marci Tate, public relations specialist at the High. “School groups came through the High to see the exhibition every week, and our school group attendance exceeded 30,000.

Our opening party held last February was our highest attended opening event ever, with over 2,600 guests.”

That will come as no surprise to those who have observed the growth in Kahlo’s popularity and its subsequent effect on museum attendance. As the Kahlo phenomenon continued to grow in the past decade, it attracted new audiences to art exhibits. The attention brought with it renewed critical analysis of Kahlo’s work and also spawned a flood of merchandising.

When Kahlo was included in a 2002 exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), along with artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, the show drew large crowds, including many younger people. Those who visited the gift shops snapped up memorabilia and items related to Kahlo’s’ style of dress. Likewise, when Kahlo was featured in museum exhibits in Texas and Arizona, gift shops reported brisk sales of Kahlo posters, dolls, tote bags, watches, mirrors and photos.

The 2013 High exhibit followed that pattern. “We had a dedicated gift shop for the exhibition, and the shop’s items were very popular with our audiences,” said Tate. “Our gift shop sales exceeded its goal.”

While the High focused on Kahlo’s works of art, a current exhibit in Mexico City examines her unique look and style which includes her “iconic” unibrow as well as a wardrobe that influenced designers such as Gaultier, Givenchy, and Alexander McQueen. The yearlong show displays a collection of Kahlo’s long flowering skirts, dresses, clothes, jewelry and shoes that have been stored for nearly 60 years. The exhibit, “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo,” is on display until November 2013 at the Frida Kahlo Museum, also known as “Casa Azul.”

Circe Henestrosa, exhibit curator, said the clothes and accessories show how Kahlo built her fashion identity through “disability and ethnicity.” Kahlo used corsets, leg immobilizers and prosthesis to deal with a variety of problems caused by a childhood bout of polio and a bus accident when she was a teenager. “Kahlo used dresses in a variety of ways,” said Henestrosa in an interview on ABC/Univision. “They hid her disabilities but also portrayed her Mexican heritage and symbolized her power.”

In conjunction with the exhibit opening, Vogue Mexico featured Kahlo on the cover last November. The issue had a special section showing designs inspired by Kahlo as well as an article about her style.

The media splash surrounding Kahlo was in evidence during Madrid Fashion Week, in which designer Maya Hansen presented an entire spring 2013 collection inspired by Kahlo’s

vibrant colors and patterns. Hansen dressed her models to look like Kahlo with some of them sporting the famous unibrow. Critics have observed that the homage to Kahlo’s natural looks is ironic, given that in many cultures, the prevalence of hair removal and plastic surgery among women has continued to soar.

Although many critics have found it impossible to separate Kahlo’s life from her art and clothing, several have bemoaned the mass marketing of Kahlo, saying that it interferes with the appreciation of her work. In her book Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo, author Margaret Lindauer questioned the “entrenched narrative of suffering” that was constantly used to interpret Kahlo’s work.

Lindauer offered an analysis that separated the significance of Kahlo’s work from the myths that surrounded her.

On the other hand, Hayden Herrera, who wrote Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, said Kahlo probably would have been amused by the hoopla, especially seeing her image on Tshirts, sweatshirts and mousepads. “Frida’s become Saint Frida and people want to have a little piece of it so they have a little physical ‘thing’ that has her image on it,” said Herrera on a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) program about the life and times of Frida Kahlo. “I think she would have just rolled over in her grave laughing at this thing.”

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her to pursue a career as an artist. Her work was deeply influenced by Mexican culture which is reflected in the bright colors, primitive styles and inclusion of symbols from Mexican mythology such as the monkey.

Near the end of her life and after many operations, Kahlo was in mental and physical pain. Her health deteriorated as she became more dependent on pain killers and alcohol. She died at the age of 47 in 1954. Her ashes are on display in a pre-Columbian urn at the Casa Azul.

Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) often spoke of his admiration for Kahlo because she “found a way of painting pain – of permitting us to see pain and in so doing, reflecting the pain of the world.”

“She is a figure that represents the conquest of adversity, that represents how – against hell and high water – a person is able to make their life and reinvent them and make that life be personally fulfilling,” he said in 2005. “Frida Kahlo in that sense is a symbol of hope, of power, of empowerment, for a variety of sectors of our population who are undergoing adverse conditions.”

Fuentes called some of Kahlo’s paintings “portraits of her soul, much like Van Gogh and Rembrandt revealed themselves in painting themselves.”

Kahlo’s Life and Struggles Kahlo’s paintings continue to mesmerize museum-goers.

The life of Frida Kahlo is often described as “tumultuous” Some of Kahlo’s portraits are currently on display as part of due to health crises, personal upheavals and political the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, “Van Gogh, Dali and passions.

Beyond: the World Reimagined,” in which she is described as Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacan, near Mexico City, an artist who reinvented portraiture in her time. although later in life she often gave her birthdate as 1910 Kahlo’s art still resonates with the public, but Hayden Herrera so it would coincide with the beginning of the Mexican spoke of her special legacy for other painters. “She gave other revolution. painters permission to be personal and to be autobiographical Kahlo was plagued with health problems from the time she and to deal with the body in a very open way and also to use fanwas a child. At the age of 7 she contracted polio which left her tasy in a way that sort of digs into the self,” he said. right leg shorter and weaker. The biggest blow to her health came when she was 18 and was involved in a bus accident leaving her with severe injuries to her pelvis, spine, collarbone and ribs, as well as fracturing her right leg and crushing her right foot. She turned to painting because she was bedridden for a year and became very bored.

At one point as she was recovering, she reacted to her injuries by saying: “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.”

Because she was isolated at this time, much of her work was self-portraits which included her famous unibrow, plentiful facial hair and a very visible moustache. Critics have noted that in many of the portraits, Kahlo’s face looks “impassive and mask-like.” When asked why she painted herself so much In conjunction with the exhibit she said: “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” opening, Vogue Mexico featured As a young woman, Kalho joined the Mexican Communist Party and met Diego Rivera who was painting murals at the Kahlo on the cover last November. time. They eventually married in 1929 when she was 22 and he was 42. By all accounts, it was a turbulent and unconvenThe issue had a special section tional marriage in which both had affairs, including Kahlo’s affair with Leon Trotsky and Rivera’s liaison with Kahlo’s sister. showing designs inspired by Kahlo They divorced in 1939 and remarried the next year.

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Exhibit Reveals Influence of Latino Migration in Southeastern Connecticut

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by Gary M. Stern nlike museums in Houston or Miami, which frequently show Latino artists, the Windham Textile and History Museum, located in Windham, Conn., in the southeastern corner of the state is not known as a major force in Hispanic art. But when Windham Textile and History Museum joined with Eastern Connecticut State University to present “The Latino Migration Exhibit,” it put the spotlight on the Latino culture and its migration to and within the U.S. The show launched in spring 2013 and runs until early December.

Because Windham was once the site of major textile mills and poultry plants, it attracted scores of Latino workers, mostly from Puerto Rico in the mid-1950s. This show documents the cultural, religious, political and economic life of Latino immigrants. It displays a story about why working class Latinos arrived in America.

Eastern Connecticut State College is a public college. Of its 5,440 students enrolled in the 2012-13 semester, 75 percent receive financial aid. Its student population is 74 percent White, 8 percent Hispanic, 6 percent African-American and 2 percent Asian-American. Its most popular majors are psychology, preeducation, business administration and communication.

The college and Windham Textile and History Museum are closely linked. Eastern Connecticut’s president Elsa Núnez serves on the Museum Advisory Board, and the museum’s executive director, Jamie Eves, is also an adjunct in the history department. Other professors have served on the museum’s board and several Eastern Connecticut history majors have conducted research there to complete senior seminar papers.

Students also have participated as interns, obtaining three credits for their involvement.

The impetus for the Latino Migration Exhibit sprang from the Windham Textile and History Museum’s board. In 2011, it presented a show on Polish immigration, which drew a positive reaction from the museum-going community. The board decided it would offer an immigration show every two years and felt that highlighting the very active Latino community would be fitting. Anna Kirchmann, a museum board member and faculty member at Eastern Connecticut State, suggested Ricardo Pérez, a professor of sociology, anthropology and social work at Eastern Connecticut who specialized in migration, as guest curator.

Eastern Connecticut also played a critical role in sponsoring the Latino Migration Exhibit. Because the Windham muse-

um has a limited budget, Elsa Núnez, president of Eastern Connecticut, stepped in and secured funding to ensure that the exhibit could proceed. In fact, the university furnished about 85 percent of the funding, provided equipment, and supplied video clips.

Spotlighting immigrants is fitting for Windham, explains Eves. “It’s incredibly diverse. We counted 26 different ethnic groups in the town,” he says.

Many Latinos have discovered the museum, often for the first time. “Previously they saw the museum as presenting Anglo work and celebrating the gilded age. Now they see how their history fits into the overall history of Willimantic (the

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area where the mills were located). They didn’t think their plethora of class visits. ethnic group had been here long enough to be considered “Our view of immigration is that it’s a dynamic process that history,” Eves says. started in the 1950s and has been maintained until the preYet Eves stresses that the exhibit revolves around Latino sent,” Pérez asserts. Although Puerto Ricans were the domimigration, not immigration and that distinction is noteworthy. nant group that transplanted to Connecticut, the region Immigrants are people who moved to another country from a attracted a diversity of Hispanics including Mexicans, foreign land, but Puerto Ricans are Americans. “They were Guatemalans, Panamanians, Dominicans and Colombians. just moving to the U.S. or migrating. I moved to Windham Pérez notes that the influx of Puerto Ricans to Connecticut from Maine; there’s no differintensified around 1954 and ence,” he says.

1955. Most were recruited first by As you enter the exhibit, it chicken processing plants and begins with an overview of Latino later textile firms. “It was also the migration to the region. All the decade when immigration from captions and history are written in Puerto Rico to the U.S. peaked,” English and Spanish, making it a says Pérez, a Puerto Rican native. fully bilingual experience.

“Puerto Ricans were recruited Much of the exhibit revolves because they were already around video clips, lasting five to American citizens and presented seven minutes and focusing on few obstacles in immigrating to four key areas: Latino migration, the U.S. They didn’t even require a economic life, political involvevisa to enter the country.” ment and religion. Pérez conductMost of the Puerto Ricans who ed many of the interviews included immigrated into the U.S. were in the video and captions were teenagers, 17 to 19 years old, composed by Jaime Gómez, a proPérez says. Some were married, fessor of communication at but most had no experience in Eastern Connecticut. textile or meatpacking. At the Many immigrants were time, the Puerto Rican economy Catholic, but some believed in primarily was agrarian, and many spirits. The exhibit also contains a of these teenagers were having a variety of religious artifacts includdifficult time finding work. ing crosses, costumes, and exam“Their intention to come to the ples of Three Kings Day, a holiday U.S. was to find employment, even in Puerto Rico. if they accepted low-paying jobs,” Many of the photographs Pérez said. “At least it was work.” depicting the inside of the plants Some of the Puerto Rican were taken by professional photeenagers also were trying to unite tographers hired by the mill for with family members who had promotional purposes or safety already transplanted to the U.S. to Jamie Eves brochures. In addition, The Center find work. Brothers or sisters for Puerto Rican Studies, located wrote letters telling them that jobs at Hunter College, provided a variety of artifacts and photos were plentiful, and life was better in the U.S. than in the from its collection. islands, Pérez suggests.

One day when the museum was closed, but Jaime Eves was Women in particular were interested in forging a new life in inside, he heard a knock on the museum’s door, and encoun- the U.S. Many of their parents were very strict, maintained a tered a woman accompanied by her husband. The woman was tight rein on them, and prevented them from asserting their very animated and seemed desperate to visit the exhibit own freedom. Some female immigrants had been abused by because someone had seen her father in one of the videos, their husbands or boyfriends and wanted to be liberated from working at a factory. Spellbound, she entered and spent time the humiliation. “For women it was an opportunity to leave watching her father interviewed in a video. those conditions,” Pérez said.

The exhibit also has proven to be a lure to elementary But conditions in the meat processing plants were dangerschool students who go on special tours. Since local history is ous. After the chickens were slaughtered, workers operated a major theme in the third-grade curriculum, it’s attracted a on a conveyor belt, cleaning and eviscerating the poultry.

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Workers had to slice the chicken quickly and could cut or considered just Latino or Hispanic,” Pérez says. That percepslash their fingers with the knives. It was a messy, bloody, tion was reinforced by the term “Latino” which was coined by smelly environment to work in, Pérez notes. In fact, when the the U.S. Census to create one unified group to rank and count. textiles plants started opening, many Latinos gravitated there Despite the fact that most of the manufacturing plants that to find work in them since it was safer and cleaner than meat- recruited Latinos have faded in Windham, the influence of packing plants.

Latinos in the local culture survives and thrives. Pérez says, In the textile mills, much of the work involved dying or according to the 2010 Census, Windham’s population of spinning cottons. But Latinos also worked at General Cable, a 17,700 is approximately 40 percent are Latino. The fact that large cable company. so many Latinos stayed indicates Over the years, manufacturing they created an enclave, a commuin Connecticut subsided due to nity, a neighborhood. “They have competition from overseas. The their roots here; they got married chicken processing plants started and had children,” says Pérez. closing in the early 1970s and the Some Latinos continue to work large American Textile plant folded in the General Cable or United in 1975.

Abrasive factories. Mexican immiLife wasn’t easy for immigrant grants were recruited for a workers. Most lived in nearby Franklin Mushroom factory but boarding houses. Many faced disthat closed in 2006. Many Latinos crimination since they were conare employed in the service indussidered the new immigrant on the try, working at local Mexican block. Ironically, Windham had a restaurants. Ironically, several history of attracting immigrants Puerto Rican eateries opened, but from Poland and French Canada, only one survives. Scores of but these immigrant groups felt Latinos also work in the health the Latinos “were coming to take care industry at Windham their jobs and resources,” Perez Community Hospital. said.

Overall, Pérez says Latino At work, many Latinos were immigrants exerted a major also subjugated. Most weren’t conimpact on the region. Latinos sidered for promotions or helped develop Windham from a advancement. In schools, many factory or mill town into a thriving were humiliated because of their community. That is why this exhibaccents or inability to speak it is so important.

English clearly. Some demanded to “The exhibit created a focal learn Spanish in school but were point of discussion about the rebuffed. migration experience, which the The exhibit is aimed at both majority of people in the commuRicardo Pérez, professor of sociology, Latinos and Anglos, Pérez said. It nity have had, either through Eastern Connecticut State University is also trying to overcome the themselves or their parents or stereotype that all Latinos are one grandparents,” Eves says. unified group of Hispanics. “Latinos are not monolithic or Another aspect was revealing that the experience of Latinos homogeneous,” says Pérez. “There are differences between moving to Windham was no different than the previous groups Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in terms of their history, culture, who came to find work and a better life, Eves says. Moreover, cuisine and religious expression.” When Pérez has visited the the exhibit has exerted a positive impact on the local Latino exhibit, he has observed many Puerto Ricans and Mexicans community. They feel proud about what these intrepid Puerto trying to identify and locate their history and culture repre- Rican and other immigrants experienced while adjusting and sented in it. adapting to a new country. “Many Latinos have been stereoAnglos too often considered Latinos as one unified group, typed negatively,” Pérez says. “But this exhibit sets the record overlooking the ethnic, geographic and cultural differences, straight by emphasizing their accomplishments.” which are demonstrated in the exhibit. “Many Anglos don’t have a clear understanding about who Latin Americans are.

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ike many college students I wanted to visit Europe - but I never did. Finally, when I was an academic dean at Inter American University in Puerto Rico, I undertook that dreamed of trip.

First, I made an obligatory trip to visit my father’s relatives in his native Sweden. Then I hopped over to La Madre Patria to explore my grandmother’s Seville. The trip was capped off with a few days stay in Madrid; I was very impressed.

In 2005, I returned to spend a whole week in Madrid. I wrote about my adventures at El Prado for The Arts issue of Hispanic Outlook in August of that year. Pleased with my trip, I longed to return to majestic Madrid for more than a week.

Finally a few months ago, I returned to explore Artistic Madrid for a full 30 days.

Barajas Airport One is immediately impressed with Madrid’s commitment to the arts as one walks through its airport: Barajas. It is the nation’s busiest airport servicing millions every year.

Artistically the airport is a beautifully designed modern building. Inside it is creatively enhanced with winged curved wooden ceilings which capture the glory and metaphors of flight.

Impressive Architecture After a 20- minute ride into town one is struck by the beauty of Madrid’s streets and its boulevards. They are clean and invariably tree-lined with convenient benches throughout.

Restaurants place flowerpots on their sidewalks, which adds a festive aura to the city’s ambience. A cold beer or a glass of wine, numerous varied Tapas and exquisite dining are readily available throughout Madrid.

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Madrid also has an unending wealth of historic beautiful stately buildings. Many were at one time private residences but are now public buildings such as museums and government offices. They are very tastefully preserved, well-scrubbed and they glisten in the sunlight.

The wide variety of Madrid’s impressive architecture has led to the city being dubbed “the city of a thousand faces.” In the early 18th century the French Bourbon architecture was popular as exemplified in La Puerta de Alcalá. Massive and sculptured in granite it was the gateway into the city. It is a favorite sight for Madrileños at night when it is bathed by flood lights. A prominent office building, the Banco de España, the nation’s central reserve bank, is housed in a gigantic building with three façades. Of note as well is the richly ornate Art Nouveau as preserved in the Sociedad General de Autores de España building La Gran Via boulevard offers a row of ornate and beautiful buildings all elegantly preserved. Further on, richly carved facades and at times ostentatious buildings surround Old Madrid’s Plaza Major. Nearby one can also visit the royal palace. All of these and many other architectural treasures are easily accessible by the city’s excellent bus service and roving taxis. And of course compressed Madrid lends itself to walking tours. In short, Madrid is beautiful and convenient to explore.

Paseo del Arte Many palatial buildings with their unique beautiful facades have spectacular interiors as well and most are open to the public. The Ayuntamiento of Madrid is a perfect example. Its marble columns, ornate carvings and ceilings that never seem to end are breath-taking. The Ayuntamiento also hosts a five

star restaurant with a balcony facing a large circular fountain, Fuente de Ciebeles. Massive avenues shoot out as busy spokes from the fountain. One of them is the Paseo del Arte.

That fabled Avenue of Art envelops a wide, tree-lined boulevard park where Madrileños have strolled for hundreds of years. It is just a few blocks long and leads directly to the world famous Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums.

Along the way one encounters another large fountain, the Fuente de Neptuno. Just a block off the Paseo del Prado one can visit two of Madrid’s most architecturally impressive hotels: the Ritz Madrid and the Westin Palace. Their glass domed rotundas rooms afford an opportunity to have tea and gaze at the massively exquisite architecture.

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Just a few blocks from the Cibeles Fountain one comes upon the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Housed in a NeoClassical former residence built in 1806 many scholars believe this museum houses the world’s most important private art collection. It was created by Baron Heinrich ThyssenBornemisza and covers the history of Western art from the early Flemish and Italian painters to 20th century Pop Art. The Spanish state bought it in 1993, and it is a strong complement to the Prado and Reina Sofía museums all within walking distance of one another.

The Thyssen adds 20th century international artists and complements the Spanish ones at Reina Sofía.

The Thyssen provides the evolution of the history of Spanish art. Its medieval works are especially outstanding, with a highlight being Van Eyck’s “Diptych of the Annunciation” and Petrus Christus’ “Our Lady of the Dry Tree.”

Holbein’s celebrated portrait of Henry VIII is also displayed. Later works include a collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist examples, notably Degas’ “Swaying Dancer,” several Van Gogh paintings as well as Cézanne’s “Portrait of a Farmer.”

The 20th century is represented by Picasso’s “Man with a Clarinet” and “Harlequin with a Mirror,” thought by some to represent the artist himself. Other celebrated names from the 20th century include Miró, Dali, Bacon, and Pollock.

Particularly chilling is Edward Hopper’s “Hotel Room,” which portrays urban isolation.

With such a wealth of art, it is not surprising that this mag-

nificent museum attracts almost 1 million visitors every year. It further makes Madrid the envy of the art world, since the city outbid everyone else for the collection, including the Getty Foundation. Presently valued at a $1 billion, the collection was bought for $350 million. Its presence in Madrid provides yet another example of elegance and devotion to the arts in Spain’s capital.

There is a lovely restful garden at the entrance. A warning: there are very few benches in the galleries or in the lobby. The staff is informed and courteous. The café/restaurant has a magnificent view of the garden.

Reina Sofía As one leaves the Thyssen and turns right one is walking along the same boulevard that brought us to the Thyssen. A leisurely 15-minute stroll leads to one of the newest museums in Madrid.

The Museo Reina Sofía is really different because its very existence is based on a redefinition of the function of museums. It boldly presents an alternative to historic models.

It was conceived as a place to generate opportunities for sociability and discussion in the public sphere. The Museum tries to create a “model of resistance to a society where consumption and merchandise predominate.” The museum

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“strives to develop new forms of intermediation and encourages active spectators.”

It challenges “the central- peripheral dynamic and the univocal vision of art history. Art history is no longer written as if it were comprised of large continents, but rather as a kind of archipelago in which varying relations emerge in an everchanging cartography.” In plain English, the forms of modernity previously considered subordinate are able to fully express their complexity and spectators are expected to participate.

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perceived not as belonging to someone else but rather as one’s own.” The purpose is to enable the public to see ourselves both as subjects and as objects of the perception of others, thus “creating a new, liberating space for sociability.”

As if all that mind-boggling was not enough, the museum strives to be a place for debate and research through seminars and university programs. The interaction, which is neither unduly influenced nor hierarchised, between education and the array of activities and exhibitions, the collection, and public programs, is all sponsored by the museum.

One doesn’t get the feeling of a regular museum but its intellectual vitality is ever so evident and electric.

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Artists previously considered secondary or derivative now have their own voice and thanks to new links of solidarity with intellectuals, they challenge the rules long-established in the Western European world.

The museum’s collection is unique. Works are selected to create intertwining narrations that take the form of archives.

Aesthetic autonomy is diluted by the inclusion – all on the same level – of documents, artwork, books, journals or photographs.

All this gives rise to alternative narrations that provide viewers knowledge, aesthetic experiences and the possibility of comprehending a historical moment in a whole new fashion. The idea is to create an archive of archives that gives voice and capacity with which to archive, rethink and narrate history.

Another of the museum’s goals is to foster “the writing of history from the bottom up.” To achieve this, the museum proposes an educational formation that eliminates hierarchies and highlights the revitalizing power of culture. That is based on the conviction that each one of us knows how to rediscover and redefine knowledge. As an aside, I have a Ph.D. in history and months after my visit, I am still scratching my head over all this contorted language and the museum’s goals. If nothing else this museum makes you think.

Works of art have been chosen to represent common ground for the artist and the spectator. That will, it is hoped, “facilitate a relationship with others and with an environment

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The Prado As mentioned before I wrote a column for Hispanic Outlook in August 2005 about my visit to the Prado that year.

Further, another full-length article about the Prado appeared in Hispanic Outlook during the last 12 months. So, although I visited the Prado during this trip, I will not go into great detail.

Suffice it to say the Prado is one of the world’s premier cultural attractions. One that is not to be missed. The name originates from the former market gardens that existed there. They were known as the “prado” or meadow. The royal family had been impressed with the Louvre in Paris and wanted to establish a similar collection in Madrid. The result today is several thousand works, with a recent modern extension allowing more of them to be displayed.

Works by great European masters such as Velázquez, Goya, Raphael, Rubens, and Bosch are housed in an 18th-century Neo-Classical building that opened as a museum in 1819.

The sheer scale of the collection makes it daunting, so it is useful to arrive with a few of the highlights in mind and concentrate on those. Perhaps the most famous painting is Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” showing princess Margarita and her two ladies-in-waiting as well as the artist himself with paintbrush and palette in hand. Another of his famous works, “The Triumph of Bacchus,” portrays the god of wine with a group of revelers.

Another major artist of the Prado is Goya, whose depiction of nudity in the painting “The Naked Maja” led him to be accused of obscenity. His works make up such a large part of the museum, that a statue of him stands outside the main entrance.

The museum shop is worthy of a visit, as is acquiring an “Art Walk” ticket (“El Paseo del Arte”) that also allows entrance to the Thyssen Bornemisza and Reina Sofía museums. An even better option is to purchase the Madrid card, since this also gives you entrance to dozens of other museums and sights, and allows you to avoid the frequently extremely long lines at the Prado.

Bottom line: Madrileños are very proud of their beautiful city and frequently exclaim - “Depues de Madrid - el cielo.” They have a point.

Dr. Mellander was a college president for 20 years.

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Spanish Old Master Paintings Re-Installed at the Met This

by Michelle Adam past May, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its newly reinstalled collection of the European Old Master paintings – the first such renovation since 1951 and reinstallation since 1972. More than 600 paintings of works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Velázquez, and Goya, among others, now permanently hang side by side in a gallery space that has increased by one-third of what previously was available in separate spaces.

Among the European painters are the Old Spanish Masters, such as Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), and Jusepe de Ribera , whose 35 to 40 works span the same time period as the other European painters, from 1250-1800. “The Spanish collection was in spaces that were not ideal for it and they were also separate from each other,” explained Xavier Salomon, curator of Southern Baroque paintings. “The early 16th and 17th century paintings were in one part of the museum and the 18th in another. We now have three rooms, one next to the other, with more space for more pictures to be presented in a more coherent way.”

While Salomon admits the Metropolitan’s collection can’t rival that of the Hispanic Society or the Meadows Museum in the United States, it is able to show well the works of specific artists like Goya, El Greco, and Velázquez. The museum began collecting its art from the very beginning – in 1871 – along with that of other international artists. It received donations from individuals, such as works by El Greco, through the Habermeyer Collection. More recently, the Met has been acquiring art by Ribera, a Spanish painter who lived from 1591 to 1652. His earlier pieces were unidentified – sitting in a pile of a collection of anonymous pictures – until about a year ago when they were discovered.

“The two most significant acquisitions in our collection are

“The Portrait of Juán de Pareja” by Velázquez acquired in 1971 and now this large Ribera of this past year,” said Salomon. “Juán de Pareja is arguably the most important Velázquez in America. It’s of his Moorish slave that he freed and who served as an assistant in his workshop. And Ribera is a recent discovery in the world of art history. His paintings have become very desirable. Museums are trying to buy them.”

Ribera’s works, and those of other Spanish artists, are now currently on display as part of the reinstallation. Some of these are on loan or available for the first time to the Met, including a Ribera portrait of the Count de Monterey, currently on loan to the museum from a private collection. The Met also is borrowing Goya’s still life of two dead hares (rabbits). A Zurbaran painting of Saint Benedict that has been in storage for a long time will finally come out because there’s space to display it. In addition, a portrait of the Duke of Modena by Velázquez is on loan for the first two months of the show.

All of the old Spanish masters’ paintings are considered a part of the Baroque period. Yet, the artists displayed are unique in their own way. “The Spanish Baroque includes a combination of different individuals,” said Salomon. “In 300 years of Spanish art, you go from the Renaissance and the Inquisition to modern art.”

The Spanish artists of this time include El Greco, who lived from 1541 to 1614. Called “the Greek” because he was born in Crete, he was known for painting more mystical, spiritual works, many of which included biblical renderings or scenes where the landscape of people was elongated. Velázquez, on the other hand, lived from 1599 to 1660, and was one of the most admired European painters of all time. A leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, his works later became a model for the realist and impressionist painters. One of his well-known paintings, Las Meninas, is of individuals from the Spanish

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court captured as if in a snap shot, with the painter and his canvas in the background (the Met has two paintings of the Meninas series).

Another Spanish painter, Goya, who lived from 1746 to 1828, was considered one of the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries. His paintings started as more lighthearted, but then became deeply pessimistic. Also a court painter, Goya’s darker works displayed the horrors of war when Spain struggled for independence from France.

“The art of El Greco is different from the art of Velázquez.

You get modern-like bright colors with a loose way of painting with El Greco and with Velázquez, it is more of a psychological portraiture of looking into the soul of the person in front of him,” said Salomon. “Goya has a more modern way of painting. Impressionist artists looked toward artists like Goya. His technique is a loose way, simply done and effective. And Ribera is more Italian in his style because he worked in Italy most of his life. He becomes a bridge between the Spanish and Italian art in that period.”

The paintings that make up the Spanish Old Masters collection at the Met dwarf in numbers compared to the museum’s Dutch and Italian collection. This is because historically there has been less interest in Spanish works, but also because Spanish paintings tend to remain in Spain.

“I think Spanish art is very effective and theatrical and creates an immediate reaction upon seeing,” said Salomon, describing the uniqueness of this work. “And now that it is

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being displayed alongside other European works during the same time period, people can experience the art with more clarity and where the works speak to one another well.

“You can go from one room to the next and see Spanish paintings and this is important. You will have a dialogue between El Greco and then the Italian art he was looking at. And with 18th century France section, you can relate it to French Revolution and what was happening to Goya at the time.”

As part of the reinstallation, the Met is offering tours of the galleries and is distributing publications related to the tours.

All the labels of the gallery have been redone and some rooms will have iPod images showing how everything looked originally. The collection database online has also been enhanced and so that visitors can see the description of each painting and study them in depth.

With summer being the busiest time for the Met, large numbers of visitors are expected. Salomon, who came on board with the museum two years ago, arrived within a year’s time of plans for the reinstallation of the European Old Masters paintings. “This has taken three years to do,” he said, and now, in the midst of tourist season in New York City, the hard work toward this renovation can be enjoyed.

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by Diana Saenger National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) is a national membership organization founded in 1999 to address the professional needs of Latino/Latina independent producers.

NALIP has been a pioneer in its efforts to enhance Latino production and provide ongoing support for Latino independent film and video producers. NALIP remains the premiere Latino media organization that focuses on the most underrepresented and the largest ethnic minority in the country.

“The idea for NALIP started when a Latino non-profit that was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to support Latino filmmakers got defunded,” said Bienvenida Matias, NALIP’s acting executive director and educator, filmmaker, former executive director of the Association of Hispanic Arts, and former publisher of “The Independent.”

After a planning committee organized a conference in June 1999 titled, “The Future of Latino Independent Media: Public Television and Beyond,” participants agreed they wanted a permanent organization to continue on with the new ideas.

“We didn’t know who all was out there or what they needed,” Matias said. “We realized we had a whole cadre of filmmakers under the age of 35. People who had gone to film school or taught themselves how to work on films and saw they could cross over in the different film genres. This is unlike the days when if you had a job in filmmaking you were stuck in that job.”

The NALIP team quickly came together through Latino producers, activists and educators from around the country with a staff, board of directors, advisors and trustees. Their goal was to: (1) organize as a creative constituency; (2) take an active role in defining institutional needs within public television; and (3) look beyond public television to the new media environment in which independent programming might find other outlets.

Fourteen years later NALIP is a strong, essential and strategic partner in its focus on aiding Latinos in their artistic endeavors. Those interested in participating in a program at NALIP can submit applications on its website. All programs are offered once a year and open to the public.

“We have great opportunities,” Matias said. “Too often, because making a film or documentary can take so long, people just rush it and put it out there. Then it’s more of a good rough cut and not polished because they ran out of money or steam and don’t have a senior producer-type mentor. This is what we do – a lot of informal mentoring. Unfortunately you don’t see those entry level programs that used to be around where someone could go and work on a film as an assistant to an assistant editor or director. So we try to fill that gap.”

Some of their programs include: • The Latino Writers Lab™, a professional development lab

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for mid-career feature and television writers.

• Latino Media Market, which matches specific projects with funders, distributors and broadcasters.

• National Signature Programs, dedicated to improving the skills and relationships of NALIP’s members as they advance their documentary and narrative projects to production and release.

• The Latino Producers Academy 11-day residential intensive course for producer/directors of documentaries and of independent features; the one-year Latino Artist Mentoring Program (LAMP) designed to give Latino and Native media producers the information and skills they need to realize their projects, and, ultimately, effect social change.

• A three-day program, in partnership with the NEA and CPB, called “Doing your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices.” It provides mentoring and instruction to filmmakers of color, helping to develop Asian-American, African-American, Native Americans, Hispanic and Pacific Islander stories along with regional documentaries that have potential national relevance.

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a NALIP Signature Program created for NALIP members, focusing on categories such as low-budget features in development or pre-production, documentary work-in-progress and non-scripted series ideas. The most recent conference attracted 675 content creators and supporters.

Many of those supporters include huge corporations, other organizations, prominent filmmakers and celebrities. Film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician Robert Rodríguez (Machete, Sin City) is launching an English-language cable television network with Comcast that will target Latino audiences. He has worked with NALIP on this project.

“I think NALIP is very important so that filmmakers there can network and get mentors who believe in their work and can cultivate their talent,” Rodríguez says in a video on the NALIP site www.NALIP.org/ Also lending her support via a video on the site is Rita Moreno, actress and Academy-award winner for her role in West Side Story, and ALMA-award winner for her role in television’s Oz. “I think being a part of the NALIP community is an absolute responsibility that every, actor, director, writer, producer, and cinematographer should take on,” Moreno said. “We are our best friends, and the only way we get support is through our own people. It’s important that all of us in my profession should understand you (NALIP) are doing us a great service and in order to help us, we have to help you. Those with big names should join NALIP.” NALIP has had many success stories fostered by its programs. Kimberly Barista developed her documentary Justice For My Sister there. The film is about violence against women, and Barista was invited to speak about her film at a United Nations convention in Geneva.

Producer/Director/Writer María Agui Carter, chairman of NALIP’s board of directors is a documentary filmmaker who just finished her film Rebel about Loreta Velázquez, a Cuban confederate soldier turned Union spy in the Civil War. Carter produces films for PBS and cable television. She is an advocate for Latino and social issue filmmakers and has won fellowships from several organizations including the Rockefeller 22

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Foundation. In addition to having her films shown on PBS, Carter was commissioned by The National Parks Department to do an educational film about Velázquez to show around the country in battlefield parks, visitor centers and historic houses.

Other Latino/as in the entertainment industry also have been honored by NALIP. “We gave a NALIP Lupe Award to Gina Rodríguez for her breakout role in Filly Brown,” Matias said. “The award is to honor NALIP’s supporter Lupe Ontiveros and her accomplishment as a talented actress and community activist.”

NALIP provides a Latino Media Resource Guide, a unique online member directory and reference designed to connect filmmakers to funders, employers and one another.

Matias’ leadership style reflects her background in a range of arts projects. She says she grew up in an environment in which decisions were made by consensus and there was a broad sense of participation to include different voices. She also has a track record of excellence in several endeavors.

She is currently working on the documentary Coquito! as producer/director, with producers Tami Gold and Sonia GonzálezMartinez. The film is funded by the Latino Public Broadcasting. Matias was an advisor on the television series The Independent Lens. In short, she knows the ropes of this business inside and out.

“It’s a very difficult business” she said. “Anyone who wants to be a filmmaker has to have a driving passion for telling their story with a visual matter, and it’s an expensive business.

Even if you are an auteur filmmaker like Robert Rodríguez who writes the script and does everything he can on a film; you can only sustain that for so long. So you always want to develop your craft to the next level where you bring in all of the other collaborators.”

Matias is proud of the outreach and support that NALIP has achieved.

“Long time friendships have been forged through NALIP,” she said. “When people come here they say it feels like family.

They’re with a community that understands some of the challenges they are facing and the types of stories they want to tell.

There’s always someone who wants to inspire you the way that you inspire someone else – it’s worth a lot of hard work.”

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by Peggy Sands Orchowski

ARE WANNA – BE HSIs DRIVING THE DREAM ACT? – Increasingly when I tell a university lobbyist who has come to Capitol Hill on business that I am the Congressional Correspondent for the Hispanic Outlook, they grin and say “we’re 24.5 percent,” or “23 percent” or “we’re almost there.” Sometimes they even raise an open hand to do a high-five. Of course we all know what they mean. Their post-secondary educational institution almost has documented that 25 percent of their undergraduates are (self-identified) Hispanics. Meeting that threshold will qualify them to compete for the special Title V fund of some $1 billion as an HSI – a “Hispanic-Serving Institution.” In their eagerness to recruit Hispanic-heritage students, increasing numbers of these lobbyists are becoming important advocates for passage of the DREAM Act in their states and also in Washington, D.C., Dr. Meriah Griego of the University of New Mexico told me. “Formulative experiences with race, racism and with DREAMers (college students who came into the U.S. illegally before the age of 16) can affect how government relations officers frame the DREAM Act discussion,” Dr. Griego found in surveys she conducted for her Ph.D. thesis. “The more personally experienced they are with the issues of discrimination and bias, the more they will sympathize not only with the DREAM Act (which would legalize and promote an expedited pathway to citizenship for these students),” she said. “But they also understand the need for their emerging HSI to focus on the special needs and relationship of Latino students, not on just recruiting them.”

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immigration-simpatico creds is heating up in Congress. Increasingly representatives from both parties take any opportunity to speak some sentences in Spanish at press conferences, media events and lobbying presentations. But on June 11, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) former governor, head of the Democratic Party and Catholic missionary in Honduras, set a new high bar. He read an entire speech supporting the immigration reform bill on the floor of the Senate in Spanish. It was an historical first – though perhaps not entirely proper. Although Kaine formerly asked the presiding officer if he could do the Spanish reading, Senate rules require that the presiding officer must know what the Senator is saying and must get a simultaneous interpreter (by definition unaffiliated) for the talk (reporters need them as well). Kaine supplied a written translation of his remarks afterwards. This could set a precedent, of course. Should we now expect a presentation in German? After all, in the 1790s more than one-third of Americans spoke German; the first U.S. Congress even considered printing all U.S. laws in both languages.

JEB BUSH’S DIVERSE FAMILY – Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, brother of one president and son of another, was in Washington D.C., in May and June seeking to “forge an American solution” for immigration reform with his new book, a kinder, gentler (despite the title) take on the subject called “Immigration Wars.” He even supported the legalization of some illegal immigrants. One reason he gave for his positive support of immigrants (especially the educated kind) – his wife is from Mexico, his children are half Latino and his newest daughter-in-law is Iraqi Canadian.

Margaret (Peggy Sands) Orchowski was a reporter for AP South America and for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. She earned a doctorate in international educational administration from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she was an editor at Congressional Quarterly and now is a freelance journalist and columnist covering Congress and higher education.

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Agribusiness and Farm Management Production Economics and Sustainability Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management • Cornell University Cornell is a community of scholars, known for intellectual rigor and engaged in deep and broad research, teaching tomorrow’s thought leaders to think otherwise, care for others, and create and disseminate knowledge with a public purpose.

Anticipated Start Date: August 28, 2014 Salaries: Competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. An attractive fringe benefit package is included.

Closing Date: Review of applications will begin December 1, 2013 and continue until acceptable candidates are identified.

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell embrace diversity and seek candidates who will contribute to a climate that welcomes students of all races, nationalities and genders. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply.

AGRIBUSINESS AND FARM MANAGEMENT Assistant or Associate Professor; tenure track or tenured position; academic year appointment basis.

Responsibilities: The appointee is expected to establish a distinguished program of research and extension in agribusiness and farm management.

Responsibilities will be 50% research and 50% extension.

The successful candidate shall develop a distinguished program that integrates problem-solving research and extension. The research should address some of the myriad of issues facing the managers of agribusinesses and farms. These issues might include financial management, labor management, agro-environmental issues, input and output decisions and commodity and product marketing. The advising of graduate students is expected. The individual may eventually teach courses in agribusiness and farm management. The incumbent is expected to publish in leading scholarly journals in agricultural economics and related journals.

Opportunities: The faculty of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management consists primarily of applied economists and management faculty who have a long-standing tradition of problem-solving research that relates to issues of interest to decision makers in the public and private sectors at the state and national level. The College offers excellent collaborative opportunities in both research and outreach with colleagues in production departments.

There are opportunities for collaboration with faculty in the Dyson School as well as across Cornell University with interests in management and applied economics.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. in agricultural economics, economics, or applied economics, is required. Applicants must have strong training in management, finance, economics and quantitative methods.

Application: Electronically submit to farmmanagement@cornell.edu, your letter of application addressed to Loren Tauer, Director, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, 210 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; vita; personal statement summarizing interests and leadership efforts; reprints of selected major papers; graduate transcript; and names of three references.

PRODUCTION ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABILITY Assistant Professor; tenure track; academic year appointment basis Responsibilities: The appointee is expected to establish a distinguished program of research (50%) and teaching (50%) in the economics of agricultural production and sustainability. Among other topics, the research program should address important issues confronting the New York State and Northeast agricultural sector such as sustainable production practices, adaptation to climate change, and the implications of environmental policies. It is expected that the candidate will develop two undergraduate and/or graduate courses in sustainable production and related topics during the first three-year appointment, adding a third course after reappointment following the third year. The successful candidate will be expected to advise MS and PhD thesis research, and to advise undergraduates.

Opportunities: The faculty of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management consists primarily of applied economists and management faculty who have a long-standing tradition of problem-solving research that relates to issues of interest to decision makers in the public and private sectors at the state and national level. The successful candidate is encouraged to collaborate and integrate well with School faculty in the four program areas (Food and Agricultural Economics, Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, International and Development Economics). Potential exists to collaborate with researchers across Cornell, including scholars in Cornell’s outstanding programs in economics, the agricultural sciences, natural resources, and the environmental sciences.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. in agricultural or applied economics, environmental and resource economics, economics, or a closely related field is required.

Applicants are expected to have strong training in econometrics and quantitative methods.

Application: Electronically submit to productionecon@cornell.edu, your letter of application addressed to Loren Tauer, Director, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, 210 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; vita; personal statement summarizing interests and leadership efforts; reprints of selected major papers; graduate transcript; and names of three references.

Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management (AEM) Find us online at http://hr.cornell.edu/jobs or Facebook.com/CornellCareers Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students and staff impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas to further the university's mission of teaching, discovery and engagement. Located in Ithaca, NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in Doha, Qatar, as well as the new CornellNYC Tech campus to be built on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

Diversity and inclusion have been and continue to be a part of our heritage.

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fellowships available The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards 50 funded residential fellowships each year designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment.

For more information, please contact: Radcliffe Application Office 8 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-1324 fellowships@radcliffe.harvard.edu www.radcliffe.harvard.edu

WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Student Financial Assistance Director The Director of Student Financial Assistance will establish and interpret college policies and procedures within the guidelines of funding agencies to administer various financial aid programs. Duties include supervision of staff, development of policies and procedures, coordination of federal and state aid program studies, and formulation of financial aid packages for students at Westchester County’s largest educational institution.

For details, visit www.sunywcc.edu/jobs. Applications accepted until positions are filled; we are targeting a fall 2013 start date. Resumes to Human Resources, Westchester Community College, 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, NY 10595; fax 914-606-7838; email Word documents to humanresources@sunywcc.edu. Please indicate position of interest on envelope or in email “subject” field. AA/EOE.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – VEGETABLE PATHOLOGIST College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology – Geneva, NY Cornell is a community of scholars, known for intellectual rigor and engaged in deep and broad research, teaching tomorrow’s thought leaders to think otherwise, care for others, and create and disseminate knowledge with a public purpose.

The successful candidate will develop an internationally-recognized research (60%) and extension (40%) program focused on soil-borne plant pathogens, their relationship with other soil-borne microbes and edaphic factors, and how these interactions affect the development and management of plant diseases, with an emphasis on root diseases of vegetable crops. The research program could focus on areas such as soil health and sustainability, population genetics/genomics of soil-borne pathogens, and innovative disease management strategies, among other areas. The appointee will also develop a related extension program with a focus on soil-borne diseases of vegetable crops, to include applied and translational research and outreach efforts that will provide a positive impact on vegetable production in New York.

The appointee will be expected to interact with the interdepartmental vegetable program work team and soil health team, county and regional Cornell Cooperative Extension educators, and a diverse group of stakeholders that includes New York vegetable growers (conventional, organic, multiple crops) and support industry personnel.

Salary: Competitive, commensurate with background and experience. An attractive fringe benefits package is available.

Cornell University is committed to hiring and promoting a diverse faculty.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. in plant pathology, soil microbiology, mycology, nematology, ecology or a closely related discipline. Experience in research, as demonstrated by publication in peer-reviewed journals, is required and prior experience in extension or stakeholder engagement is preferred. Ability to communicate effectively with students, colleagues and external stakeholders is critical.

How to Apply: Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of research goals and plans, reprints of selected papers, transcripts, and the names and contact information for three references should be sent to Dr. Marc Fuchs, Search Committee Chair. Materials to be submitted electronically via Academic Jobs Online at the following web link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2748.

Review of applications will begin Sept. 15, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled.

Find us online at http://hr.cornell.edu/jobs or Facebook.com/CornellCareers Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students and staff impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas to further the university's mission of teaching, discovery and engagement. Located in Ithaca, NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in Doha, Qatar, as well as the new CornellNYC Tech campus to be built on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City. This position is located at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY, 50 miles northwest of Ithaca.

Diversity and inclusion have been and continue to be a part of our heritage.

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College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences Dean Kean, a comprehensive New Jersey state University, is committed to excellence and access and to developing, maintaining and strengthening interactive ties with the global community. Kean University takes pride in its continuing effort to build a multicultural professional community to serve a richly diversified student population of almost 16,000. The University sits on three adjoining campus sites covering 180 acres, two miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and thirty minutes from New York City, with additional locations in Ocean County, New Jersey and Wenzhou, China.

The College is composed of three schools and two departments offering twelve degree programs at the baccalaureate level and five degree programs at the graduate level. The programs offered include: Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth Science; Information Technology; Mathematics; Nursing; and Sustainability Sciences.

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Dean will provide leadership for the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences in the areas of teaching, research and university and community service. The Dean is also expected to work closely with faculty and other Deans in curricular matters, including the development of strong and innovative academic programs.

Qualifications: The successful candidate will possess a terminal degree or combination of experience in an academic or professional field related to the disciplines within the college; a record of distinguished academic or professional achievement; and a minimum of five years of progressive experience in management or a higher education, research or not-for-profit environment combining academic instruction, scholarly attainment and administration or the equivalent as determined by the university.

Experience in related science and technology fields is also acceptable.

Other qualifications include: demonstrated ability to lead through collaborative and shared decision making; the ability to sustain a strong and collegial relationship with faculty, staff, students and administrators; experience with faculty and student research; a successful record in budget development and strategic planning; the ability to balance advocacy for the college with the needs of the wider university community; an understanding of the role of information technology in science and education; and a demonstrated ability to interact with the broader science and research and development communities.

Position may be filled immediately. Complete applications must include the following: letter of interest, resume and names and contact information for three professional references. Apply directly to: Chair of the NAHS Dean Search Committee, Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits program included.

Official transcripts for all degrees and three current letters of recommendation are required before appointment.

Kean University is an EOE/AA Institution

University of Wyoming - Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources & College of Business

Faculty Position in the Knobloch Wyoming Excellence Chair for Conservation Economics and Finance The Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Economics & Finance (E&F) Department in the College of Business at the University of Wyoming are interviewing candidates for a Chaired Professor position in Conservation Economics and Finance. The Haub School’s mission is to advance the understanding and resolution of complex environmental and natural resources challenges. The E&F Department has an internationally ranked Ph.D. program in economics that includes a field specialization in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and has three Master’s programs, in Finance, Economics, and Financial Economics.

The Knobloch professor will work with colleagues, students, policy makers, and the general public to explore how to use conservation funds cost-effectively. The successful candidate is expected to bring rigorous economic analysis and financial accountability analysis to the choices made by public and private conservation and development interests. The specific area of interest is conservation economics and finance with ability to provide leadership in (1) conservation valuation and project evaluation, and modern techniques to make resource allocation choices under uncertainty; and (2) identifying cost-effective strategies that align with conservation goals to help protect publicly important landscapes and watersheds in Wyoming and the West that are critical to the region’s communities, ecosystem-based industries, and visitors. Rigorous academic study of alternative strategies for investing public and private conservation resources will be used to help inform decisions made by resource management agencies at all levels of government, nonprofit conservation organizations and private donors. A regular teaching load is two courses per semester in the E&F Department and the Haub School.

As a prominent faculty leader at Wyoming, the Knobloch Professor will join an institution with momentum and great aspirations. A strong commitment to both research and teaching is required. The person is expected to maintain a productive research program and to be involved in the supervision of graduate students in addition to teaching assignments in the undergraduate and graduate programs. The successful candidate will demonstrate accomplishments sufficient to qualify for hire at the rank of tenured Professor. Salary and start-up package will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should provide a cover letter, vision statement, curriculum vitae, and contact information for at least three references who would only be contacted after discussion with the candidate. Interested candidates may direct any questions to the search committee chair, Professor Jason F. Shogren (jramses@uwyo.edu; 307.766.5430). Finalist candidates will be asked to supply letters of recommendation.

Members of under-represented groups are especially invited to apply.

Send files by email to: Ms. Mandy Bohlender, mandyj@uwyo.edu RE: Knobloch Wyoming Excellence Chair for Conservation Economics and Finance. Review of applications will begin on September 1, 2013. http://www.uwyo.edu/haub/ http://www.uwyo.edu/econfin/ The University's policy has been, and will continue to be, one of nondiscrimination, offering equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without regard to such matters as race, sex, gender, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, political belief, or other status protected by state and federal statutes or University Regulations.

The University of Wyoming is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment.

Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search, employment and motor vehicle history. Offers of employment are contingent upon the completion of the background check.

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Yongkeun Joh Professorship of Food Chemistry and Ingredient Technology Department of Food Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences – Ithaca, NY Cornell is a community of scholars, known for intellectual rigor and engaged in deep and broad research, teaching tomorrow’s thought leaders to think otherwise, care for others, and create and disseminate knowledge with a public purpose.

The Department of Food Science at Cornell University is seeking applicants for an endowed faculty chair titled the “Yongkeun Joh Professorship of Food Chemistry and Ingredient Technology". This is a 9-month, 50% teaching/50% research, tenure-track position. The successful applicant will be appointed at the assistant or associate professor level, depending on qualifications and experience, and will be based on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

The appointee will be expected to develop internationally recognized teaching and research programs in the area of food chemistry and ingredient technology.

Teaching: The incumbent will be expected to develop and teach an undergraduate course on the chemistry and functional properties of food ingredients and a course in food product development.

Research: The specific research focus is flexible but should be relevant to the functional properties of food ingredients and their interactions/applications in foods. Possible research topics may include, but are not limited to the following: fundamental aspects of the physical chemistry of polysaccharides, proteins, or lipids; designing ingredient systems to improve food quality; understanding ingredient interactions to enhance functionality; the role of food ingredients and other food components in health and satiety; the use of ingredients as delivery systems for bioactive food components; and emulsion-based technologies for controlling lipid digestion and absorption.

Student Mentoring: The incumbent will be expected to advise undergraduate students and mentor graduate students at the M.S., M.P.S., and Ph.D. levels.

The Department of Food Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University offers comprehensive programs in undergraduate and graduate education, applied and basic research, and extension/outreach. B.S., M.S., M.P.S., and Ph.D. degree programs are offered.

Facilities include 2 research buildings, one on the Ithaca campus and one on the campus of the New York StateAgricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. A major renovation of the Ithaca facility, including the construction of a new addition, opened in July 2013. The new facility includes classrooms, state-of-the art teaching and research laboratories, a dairy processing plant, a food processing pilot plant, a student winery, and an extension conference center. The Geneva facility includes research laboratories, a fruit and vegetable processing pilot plant, and a vinification and brewing technology laboratory. www.foodscience.cornell.edu Qualifications Required: A Ph.D. in food chemistry, food engineering, food processing, biochemistry, chemistry, molecular biology, nutrition, or related field. The ability to publish in high impact journals, secure grant funding, and diagnose problems and develop solutions for food ingredient applications.

Excellent written and oral communication skills. A passion for applying research-based knowledge to enhancing the nutritional, sensorial, and functional properties of foods.

Preferred: Post-doctoral and/or industrial experience preferred.

Applicants should submit their materials to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2696, including; Letter of application, three letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, a research statement including goals and plans, a teaching and philosophy statement, publication list and three selected reprints. The committee will begin the review of applications on August 15, 2013and will continue until the position is filled. Questions can be addressed to Cindy Uhrovcik, Chairs Assistant, at clw@cornell.edu

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Vice President for Institutional Advancement With a rich history in higher education that spans more than 150 years, Kean University is a world-class, vibrant and diverse institution offering more than 48 undergraduate and 35 graduate programs, including doctoral programs in psychology, nursing and educational leadership. Kean distinguishes itself through excellence in academics, strategic investments in both research and cultural facilities and initiatives and a commitment to the success of every student. Dedicated to preparing students for rewarding careers, lifelong learning and fulfilling lives, Kean offers a broad range of disciplines, the expertise of a diverse and world-savvy faculty and a student-centered learning environment and campus community. The University sits on three adjoining campus sites in Union County, New Jersey covering 180 acres, two miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and thirty minutes from New York City, with an additional location in Ocean County, New Jersey. Kean University also operates a unique, additional location in Wenzhou-China, where development of a full-scale campus is currently underway.

The Vice President for Institutional Advancement is the chief strategist for, and operating officer and administrator of, the institutional advancement division. Reporting to the University President, the Vice President is responsible for developing, executing, tracking and reporting on the University’s advancement efforts, scholarship activities, donor cultivation and alumni relations. The Vice President also is responsible for the management of its endowment. The Vice President is the University’s liaison with the Kean Foundation and manages the supporting community Board of Directors of the Kean Foundation and the Alumni Association.

Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the development and distribution of public relations materials and other fund development marketing-related activities. The Vice President serves as a member of the President’s executive staff and, as such, is an integral part of establishing and maintaining University policies; of developing and executing sound budgeting; and participating in strategic and programmatic decisionmaking. The Vice President also assumes other duties as assigned by the President.

Qualifications: Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor’s degree required. A minimum of eight years of leadership experience in institutional advancement and philanthropic activities in higher education or in another field that directly relates to the functions of the position is also required or the equivalent as determined by the appointing authority.

Master’s degree in a related field is preferred.

Application: Please send letter of application, resume and contact information for three professional references to: Search Committee Chairperson, Office of the President, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083. Candidacy review begins immediately and continues until appointment is made. Official transcripts for all degrees and three current letters of recommendation are required prior to the starting date of employment.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business wishes to hire tenure-track faculty in the area of organizations and strategy. We will consider candidates who are completing their PhD as well as more experienced candidates. Candidates must have earned a PhD (or equivalent) or expect to receive a doctorate in the near future. Typically, candidates are intellectually grounded in organizational theory, social psychology, sociology, and strategy. However, we regularly consider applications from other related intellectual traditions. More critical is whether the candidate has clear promise of research productivity and talent for bringing empirical data to bear on theoretical questions.

The organizations and markets group (O&M) develops theory and research on organizations and markets, the ways in which actors organize to manage their variable interdependence within a social structure, and the attitude and behavior implications of the resulting social organization. We are especially interested in people skilled in network analysis, however our taste in substantive applications is broad, including how organizations operate, why they differ, leadership and labor mobility within and between organizations, competitive advantage as a function of leader and organization networks, as well as processes by which leaders and organizations emerge, evolve, and change.

Appointments would begin in the 2014-15 academic year. We will begin formally reviewing applications on November 1, 2013 and strongly encourage you to complete your application by then. We will continue to accept applications until December 1, 2013. Please submit an application online, including a cover letter briefly describing your plans for future work, a vita, a written sample of your present work, and the names of two references at http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/openings.

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Management Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Teach in the Craig School’s undergraduate and MBA programs, conduct scholarly and applied research, and engage in servicerelated activities. Opportunities to teach in the Executive MBA and Accelerated Bachelor’s in Business Administration program are available as well. Will also have primary teaching and research interests in Human Resource Management and/ or two or more option areas within the department (including Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management).

Academic Preparation: An earned doctorate (Ph.D. or DBA) in Management,Human Resource Management,or a closely-related discipline from an AACSB accredited institution (or equivalent) is preferred for appointment to a tenure-track position.

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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Department of Landscape Architecture

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The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track faculty position. This is a 9-month, 70% teaching, 30% research position.

Appointment will be at the associate professor level on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

The appointee will be expected to develop nationally and internationally recognized teaching and research programs in the area of sustainable design and development in urban areas and regions.

Teaching: The appointee will be expected to develop and teach both undergraduate and graduate studios and to present seminars related to urban design and green technologies.

Research: The specific research focus is flexible but should be relevant to sustainable design, development, urban design and practical best practices.

Leadership and Service: The appointee should demonstrate abilities as a leader and administrator. Service to the department, college, university and community is essential to this position. In addition, the successful applicant will be expected to advise undergraduate students and mentor graduate students at the masters level including thesis preparation.

Qualifications Required: Minimally, a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture; a professional degree in Landscape Architecture is essential. A passion for applying research-based knowledge to practice and ability to publish in journals and to secure research grant funding are expected.

Applicants should have strong capacity as a teacher and practitioner in sustainable design, sustainable development, urban resilience and/or contemporary green infrastructure topics.

The appointee will demonstrate interdisciplinary practice, teaching, and research at the intersection of landscape architecture, engineering, architecture, environmental science, horticulture, or other disciplines.

Preferred: Additionally, experience conducting sustainable, integrated site design that reflects the complexity of contemporary landscape systems is highly desired. Practice experience in urban design in underserved communities nationally and internationally is desired.

Applicants should submit their materials to: April Kampney, Business Manager ak29@cornell.edu; including letter of application, three letters of recommendation, curriculum vitae, a research statement including goals and plans, and a statement of teaching philosophy. The search committee will begin reviewing applications November 1, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Questions can be addressed to Peter Trowbridge, Department Chair, at pjt4@cornell.edu.

The Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers comprehensive programs in undergraduate and graduate education, applied and basic research, and outreach. B.S.L.A., M.P.S, and M.L.A. degree programs are offered.

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Find us online at http://hr.cornell.edu/jobs or Facebook.com/CornellCareers Cornell University is an innovative Ivy League university and a great place to work. Our inclusive community of scholars, students and staff impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas to further the university's mission of teaching, discovery and engagement. Located in Ithaca, NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in Doha, Qatar, as well as the new CornellNYC Tech campus to be built on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

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RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate is expected to establish a distinguished program of research (50%) and teaching (50%) in the economics and management of entrepreneurial activities. This is a tenure-track appointment; appointment will be on an academic year basis. Potential areas of research focus include but are not limited to small business management, high-tech venturing, academic entrepreneurship, “green” entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategy, entrepreneurial marketing, entrepreneurship and economic development, commercialization and technology transfer, or entrepreneurial leadership. It is expected that the candidate will teach two undergraduate and/or graduate courses in entrepreneurship or related areas during the first three-year appointment, adding a third course after reappointment following the third year. The successful candidate will be expected to advise MS and PhD thesis research, and to advise undergraduates.

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The Assistant Dean will set the vision and implement parent outreach programming for the Athens campus. Responsibilities include representing the Dean at university events, partnering with other student support units, and responding to student emergencies.

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Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled; for full consideration, please apply by September 2, 2013.

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He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything - Arabian proverb ood health practices are not often a concern for Latino teens. Why would they be? Similar to their view of time and energy, youthful Hispanics assume their health also has no limits. Older people, though, realize health can become a major issue later, compromising one’s ability to study and work. Promoting good health practices needs to be part of helping Latino teens prepare for higher education and beyond.

Start with nutrition. Many Latino teens are not the hotCheetoh-crunching-Monster drink-slurping stereotypes we envision. More often, they are people in a hurry who eat whatever there is whenever they can. Schools and the media have tried to convey information about healthier food options to all students, but Latino families need to embrace the changes, too. Too often Hispanic children are told to eat certain healthy foods, but those foods aren’t offered at home. Since children influence household buying habits, a healthier change in Latino families can be made via the preferences and choices of their teens. The move toward increased fruits and vegetables and decreased fats and carbohydrates might get a ‘yeah, yeah, sure’ response from some, but pizza often remains the only option students see as palatable when they look at the other cafeteria food choices. School administrators, food service providers, teachers and coaches who co-opt the support of student leaders can bring a wider shift among the group nutrition practices. They can make it cool to ‘go green’ on your plate.

Exercise – an essential health component often relegated only to jocks – often falls by the wayside with Latino teens because of time, sedentary lifestyles, bad habits, misinformation and negative attitudes. Latino teens need to understand that obesity is not simply an issue of appearance, but that its related health risks are high. The national obesity epidemic – with extremely high rates in Hispanics – is proof that exercise is not a priority for many. Besides the direct health benefits of weight control and muscle strength, exercise can alleviate depressive symptoms teenagers so often face and increase their energy level and stamina which is crucial for managing their busy schedules and multiple H I S PA N I C

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Teens and their parents don’t always think about the necessity for regular medical checkups beyond the required immunizations for school enrollment. Those checkups, though, are important for heading off any emergent health problems that could worsen if unattended. Schools often require annual physical examinations if students are going to participate in athletics, but it is a good idea for all students, including Latinos, to complete routine visits to the doctor.

Most adolescents don’t think twice about their teeth unless they are wearing braces to straighten them or are otherwise displeased with their smile. Beyond appearance, good oral health supports the digestive and other systemic functioning. Semiannual dental visits and daily oral hygiene build the positive oral health habits youngsters need.

Many teens and college students endure sleep deprivation like a badge of honor. Getting enough sleep seems to be the first thing to go when the pressure is on or social life is active. While some Latino college students might be working a job or two plus carrying a course load and raising children, there are others who decide to overdo socially, stay up watching movies or spend late night hours playing video games. Regardless of the reason, an accumulation of sleep loss results in illness and poor performance. Use of caffeine or amphetamines – prescribed or otherwise – can ruin sleep even when a student has the opportunity to catch up on it. (Besides, catching up on sleep is a myth – one never makes up the deficit, but the body carries the cost).

When any of these health components - nutrition, exercise, routine medical care, oral health practices and sleep, are imbalanced, the student suffers. While a younger person can carry a deficit in his early years, eventually the system breaks down. If health is affected, school is affected. We are wise to teach young Latinos learn to balance these components of self-care to help them perform in the short-run and the future.