Click the image above to look through an on-line exhibition and catalog THE ART AND HISTORY OF CUBA'S EDICIONES VIGÍA. This began as a project in the graduate level museum studies course co-taught by Cathy Callaway, Associate Educator at the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and Kristin Schwain, Associate Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, at the University of Missouri-Columbia.



Click the image above to download a guide for local galleries that are showing Ediciones Vigía's books. (Opens as an Acrobat PDF file.)

 

 

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November 11 – 13, 2012
University of Missouri | Columbia, Missouri

This unique conference will focus on Ediciones Vigía, a collective of book artists located in Matanzas (Cuba) that publishes handcrafted art-object books in a number of genres bringing together multiple aesthetics. We will concentrate on Ediciones Vigía's innovative and experimental aesthetics, graphic design, and book creation, as well as its entrepreneurial efforts and creative use of new and mixed media.

Keynote Speaker:

Ruth Behar, MacArthur Fellow and Cuban American author published by Ediciones Vigía, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan

 

Featured Presenters

Rolando Estévez Jordán, principal designer and artist of Ediciones Vigía, Winner of Cuba's National Prize of Book Design



Nancy Morejón, prolific Afro-Cuban poet published frequently by Ediciones Vigía, Poet Laureate and winner of Cuba's National Prize for Literature

 

Ivo Zander, professor of entrepreneurship at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden with research interest in art entrepreneurship


 

Highlights include:

  • First screening of a documentary film on Ediciones Vigía by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

  • Exhibitions of Ediciones Vigía's books at the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology and at Ellis Library (some one of a kind)

  • Exhibition of Works on Paper by Rolando Estévez Jordán, at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery  

  • Performance: unveiling of a one-of-a-kind book, I Love My Master, by Estévez, and reading by Nancy Morejón

  • Exhibition of Missouri artist books, We’re in this Together, at Perlow-Stevens Gallery

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Take a look at the trailers for 3 new documentary films about Ediciones Vigía by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook that will premiere  at the conference:



Ediciones Vigía: Poéticas visuales / Visual Poetics



La Habana expuesta, un diseño de Estévez / Havana on Display, a Design by Estévez



Un libro único de Estévez / A One-of-a-Kind Book by Estevéz

To order copies of the Documentaries (DVD) click here.

 

Preconference Events
Saturday, November 10th
Whitmore Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building
Dr. Carlos Perez-Mesa Memorial Concert  
Hilaro Durán and Jane Bunnett with Candido Camero
Presented by the "We Always Swing"® Jazz Series
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Wednesday, November 14th
105 Strickland  
Poetry Reading by Nancy Morejón and Salgado Maranhao