May 2023 AIR EVENT
A CITY-INFORMED PRACTICE
An Artist Talk with Kale Serrato Doyen, Oluwaseyi Adeleke, Lissette Bustamante, and Juan Arango Palacios
A CITY-INFORMED PRACTICE WITH AIR KALE SERRATO DOYEN
May 19th,2023 at 6:30 PM
at LATITUDE Chicago ( 1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60622 )
Latitude’s May resident, Kale Serrato Doyen, is hosting an artist panel titled "A City-Informed Practice" on Friday, May 19th at 6:30 pm. In conversation with Lissette Bustamante, Oluwaseyi Adeleke, and Juan Arango Palacios, these Chicagoan artists will discuss how the urban fabric of the city has informed their artistic practice, as each of them pull from Chicago's rich and complicated urban, diasporic, and cultural histories.
Latitude no longer has a required mask requirement, but we are a mask-friendly space. If you are feeling unwell, please consider wearing a mask. Latitude is an accessible space. If you need any accommodations, please contact Colleen@latitudechicago.org
KALE SERRATO DOYEN
Kale Serrato Doyen (she/her) is an emerging art historian and analog photographer. She is a third-generation Mexican American from Saginaw, Michigan. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020 with a B.A. in Art History and Museum Studies minor. Kale has completed curatorial internships at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and was a 2018-2020 Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 2020-2021 academic year, Kale was a Hot Metal Bridge Post-Baccalaureate Fellow of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and has matriculated into the Ph.D. program. Kale studies modern and contemporary art history of the United States with a focus on representations of landscape by Black and Latinx artists. By engaging with Digital Humanities curriculum, she employs digital mapping in her research to add spatial context to art historical analysis. At Pitt, she was a graduate intern for Digital Scholarship Services and the Visual Media Workshop laboratory. She has maintained a landscape photography practice since 2019, primarily using her grandpa’s 35mm camera. With an interest in fashion, Kale also turns her photographs into wearable art and manages an online vintage clothing shop.
ARTIST PANEL BIOS
Juan Arango Palacios was born in Pereira, Colombia in 1997. A traditional Catholic upbringing was cut short by a series of migrations that Juan's family took seeking a better future. Juan's family moved from Colombia to the American South where Juan’s sense of identity and belonging began to be skewed by their lack of knowledge of the English language, their unfamiliarity with American culture, and their internal struggle with a queer identity. Juan graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020, and has developed an interdisciplinary artistic practice exploring drawing, painting, and textile-making.
Lissette Bustamante is a Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist that explores contemporary urban landscapes through multimedia installations, specializing in sculpture and digital mediums. Lissette graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020 with a B.F.A in Art. In the Fall, she will be pursuing a M.A. in Visual Art Administration at New York University