Capital City Arts Initiative

Click to read the essay, Saludos Amigos: An Introduction.

Essay writer, Emmanuel Ortega, is a curator, podcaster, and visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ortega has lectured nationally and internationally on images of autos-de-fé and nineteenth-century Mexican landscapes. He contributed the chapter “Hagiographical Misery and the Liminal Witness: Novohispanic Franciscan Martyr Portraits and the Politics of Imperial Expansion” to the edited volume Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018). Also, an essay titled “Spanish Colonial Art History and the Work of Empire,” was published this summer by the UCLA’s Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture journal.