EVENT INFORMATION 

Join VPAM’s Curator of Exhibitions, Joseph Valencia in the galleries as he walks through the artworks and themes of We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro.

Curatorial Walkthrough with Joseph Daniel Valencia

Saturday, February 22, 2025 

Time: 2:00 PM 

Vincent Price Art Museum (S1 Building) at East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park

Organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Joseph Valencia is Curator of Exhibitions at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College. A scholar and writer of the contemporary art and politics of the Americas, his projects include We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro (2024-2025), Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art (2022), and Liberate the Bar! Queer Nightlife, Activism, and Spacemaking (2019). He holds a Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Latin American studies from California State University, Fullerton.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro is an exhibition, publication, and educational platform that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas. The project stems from the work of Los Angeles-based Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo, whose art and research engage with the interrelated issues of water and land stewardship, food sovereignty, and fair and just energy transition.

For more information about VPAM exhibitions and events, please visit: www.vpam.org.