Brooklyn Museum to host artist talk with María Magdalena Campos-Pons

The Brooklyn Museum is hosting an artist talk on Jan. 7 featuring Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who will share insights into her multidisciplinary practice and the making of her four-decade survey “Behold.”

In a conversation with curator Carmen Hermo, Campos-Pons will offer insight on her expansive approach to different artistic disciplines and subjects ranging from migration, diaspora, spirituality, motherhood, and memory. She will also discuss her work as an activist and her mission to inspire younger generations.

Campos-Pons received degrees from the National School of Art in Havana and the Higher Institute of Art Havana and attended the MFA program (1988) at the Massachusetts College of Art. She held the Bunting Fellowship in Visual Arts at Harvard University in 1993–1994 and currently serves as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair and Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she founded the Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice Program. She is a 2023 MacArthur Foundation fellow and her work has been seen at the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

The artist talk will be held in the Brooklyn Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission tickets to the museum (which includes the artist talk) are $20.

Photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation