ESS Welcomes Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz
ESS is excited to welcome Carolina Vélez Muñiz as its inaugural Curatorial Fellow. Carolina was selected from an open call for proposals by a panel of local artists, curators, and arts workers including Asha Iman Veal, Kioto Aoki, Veronica Anne Salinas, and Carrie Cooper.
About the Fellowship
This is a pilot program that is intended to build off of the expansive momentum and connections that ESS has garnered in the past year, and create space for the exploration of frameworks, strategies, and structures for connecting artists and audiences in 2021. The Fellowship additionally gives ESS an opportunity to develop a relationship with curators and bring fresh artistic vision in, furthering the mission of the organization to support a broad, creative exploration of sound.
About Carolina Vélez Muñiz
Carolina Vélez Muñiz is an artist and independent curator from Mexico City. Her research focuses on innovations within traditional arts from Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While living in Chicago, she worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Roger Brown Study Collection and as a Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art. One of her main interests is finding ways to unravel patriarchal and colonial constructs of knowledge which permeate into art and cultural institutions. She currently has a monthly program on Radio Cósmica Libre and is studying social dance forms in the Americas from the 20th century onwards.
