UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center's video: Conference: American Art and the Legacy of Conquest - KEYNOTE 1

November 8, 2019 “American” Art and the Legacy of Conquest: Art at California’s Missions in the Global 18th-20th Centuries This two-day conference explores the history of California’s missions with the goal of promoting new research that incorporates the voices of Native, Mexican, and Mexican American people into the history of California and the United States. This event is made possible by The Terra Foundation for American Art. Presented by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, this conference is co-sponsored by Critical Mission Studies, UC-Mexico Initiative, and the UCLA Department of Art History. This video (2 of 8) features: Keynote Address 1 "An Indigenous Art History: New Approaches to Studying the California Missions" Yve Chavez (Tongva, Akimel O’odham, and Tohono O’odham) University of California, Santa Cruz * To view a PDF of the conference program, please visit http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/files/eve... A series of "Dialogues" on the California missions, inspired by this conference and guest-edited by speakers Jennifer Scheper Hughes and Cynthia Neri Lewis, as well as an editorial commentary by Charlene Villaseñor Black, appear in the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 2, no. 3 (July 2020): https://lalvc.ucpress.edu/ *** For more information on the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, please visit http://chicano.ucla.edu/