Title of Event: Juana Estrada Hernandez Lecture
Date and time of event: Tuesday March 21st 5 pm
Location of Event: Holmes Auditorium
Type of Event: Guest Artist Lecture
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.
Ms. Hernandez gave an approximately 1 hour long lecture, beginning with her background as a child immigrant and how her lack of citizenship affected her. She then touched on how the DACA program allowed her to go to college while proceeding to expound on how much of the discussion relating to migrants in the past decade have affected her work as an artist, both in her creation of traditional prints, but also more modern ideas of sculpture that adapted her work with print making.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
Throughout the talk, Ms. Hernandez did a phenomenal job of describing how her experiences led to her focusing her work on depictions of migrants. Additionally, I found much of her descriptions of moving between print making and sculpture and her struggles in using the materials she found important (e.g. thermal blankets) in her printmaking endeavors really interesting. The parallels between it and our adapting the Metaphorms projects in order to 3D print them were intriguing, though her work is admittedly at a much larger scale.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
Her mentions of moving between sculpture and printmaking through an exchange program as a graduate student were fascinating because of their differences, but also how she applied her lithography techniques to the creation of the sculptures which used larger physical objects.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
8
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I thought she was an excellent speaker, and she did an extremely effective job of conveying the impacts of her families history on her work, even to an individual who has never experienced much of what she was describing.