Maria Gaspar conversation with Dr. Itzel Corona Aguilar

Mitchell Center Visiting Artist Maria Gaspar will be in conversation with Dr. Itzel Corona Aguilar where she’ll discuss her process, practice, and current exhibition We Press Our Hands to the Steel Curtain.

About Maria Gaspar
Maria Gaspar is a Chicago-born, first-generation, interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. For the past decade, Gaspar has been recognized nationally for her multi-year projects that attempt to dismantle borders, transcend penal matter, and turn places of precarity into places of possibility.

About Dr. Itzel Corona Aguilar
Dr. Itzel Corona Aguilar received their PhD from the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Their interdisciplinary research centers on migration, detention, fugitivity, gender, and faith, and they also works as a performing artist. They have written about Maria Gaspar’s work publications including Georgia and ASAP Review.

Date:

Monday, October 26, 2026 | 6pm-7:30pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum