Capital City Arts Initiative

In conjunction with the Mark Twain’s Suicide Table Blood Bucket Ghost Bonanza Amen exhibition, CCAI commissioned Emmanuel Ortega to write an essay on Justin Favela’s show. Click here to read Ortega’s essay, Virginia City’s Pavilion. 

Emmanuel Ortega received his masters’ degree in Art History in the Spring of 2010 from the University of New Mexico (UNM) where he is now a doctoral candidate in Ibero-America colonial art history. Ortega’s dissertation investigates the violent history of eighteenth-century Novohispanic Franciscan martyr images. He has participated in conferences in Mexico and the United States. In October of 2012 he presented in the XXXVI Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte, “Los estatutos de la imagen: creación-manifestación-percepción” of the Universidad Autónoma de México in Mexico City (UNAM). His presentation culminated in a digital publication for the Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas. Emmanuel has also published for the Polish art magazine Magazyn Sztuki and is part of the board of directors of the largest art residency in Mexico, Arquetopia. He presently teaches art history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).