A collaboration between Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca community members is bringing together a monthlong event in downtown Ithaca, focused on Latine artists.

“We Are La Voz” kicks off May 2 with an opening reception at Orozco Gallery Pop-Up, 115 S. Cayuga St., and include activities ranging from artist talks to musical performances to story times for children during the month of May.

“All of us share a sense of common concern about what’s going on nationally and internationally, and we wanted to do something positive and celebratory in a time when so much of the news seems bad,” said Debra Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Chair of Hispanic Studies and professor of Comparative Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences. “The event foregrounds and highlights Latina women and their resilience and knowledge. All of us can learn from them how to engage in the vastly changing reality that we’re encountering all the time.”

Yen Ospina, a Colombian-American artist and president of Ithaca’s Latino Civic Association, is spearheading the effort. “I‘m not thinking of this as only a gallery of art, but a hub for community creativity,” said Ospina, who has created similar pop-up exhibits in Ithaca and at Vanderbilt University.

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