As part of her 2023 Block Curatorial Internship Elizabeth Vazquez (’24 Anthropology and History) conducted research around potential museum acquisitions. Her work came to focus on the photographer Laura Aguilar, and in Spring 2023 Vazquez successfully presented a justification to the Block Acquisition Committee to accession three works by the artist into the museum collection. […]
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Artist: Laura Aguilar (Chicana, 1959–2018)Title: Motion #53Date: 1999Medium: Gelatin silver printDimensions: 11 x 14 inchesCredit line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Julie and Lawrence Bernstein Family Art Acquisition Fund Purchase, 2023.3.1. Image copyright of The Estate of Laura Aguilar. The artist Laura Aguilar once said that she felt most comfortable in […]
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