WOW: Entre/Between with Dr. Xuxa Rodriguez
We invite you to Join Chef Timothy Ordway and his team of culinary artists for Wednesdays Over Water: A casual evening of food, drinks, and conversation featuring handcrafted small plates and expert insights.
Each month, you’ll enjoy a four-course dinner menu inspired by a chosen theme, whether it be works in the museum’s galleries and exhibitions or a particular culinary art and tradition, transforming the elements of each theme into an exercise in edible art.
Along the way, each course will be paired with hand-picked libations and spirited commentary by our Culinary team, guest speakers, and museum curators. You’ll get the chance to meet fellow foodies, get an inside look at the art and artistry of great cuisine, and unwind with what promises to be a true feast for the senses.
Tickets are $89 + tax ($80 + tax for members), reserve your spot online or with Guest Services at (479) 657-2335 today.
Tickets include welcome cocktail, all food courses, and all beverages.
About Entre/Between
This event is a part of our focus exhibition Entre/Between, a multi-sited exhibition presenting works that speak to Latinx histories living within and between the United States. Surveying a visual history from 1851 to the present, the exhibition consists of paintings, photos, sculpture, works on paper, and video exhibited at Crystal Bridges, while video works and performances will be featured at the Momentary. Learn more.
About the Speaker
Xuxa Rodríguez
Xuxa Rodríguez, PhD (she/her/ella) is Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A critical race and intersectional feminist art historian, Dr. Rodríguez is responsible for modern and contemporary American art spanning the areas of Latinx and Latin American art, African diasporic art, feminist and queer art, time-based media, and transnational artists. She joined Crystal Bridges in spring of 2020.
Dr. Rodríguez’s 2022 exhibition projects include Loring Taoka ±, an artist installation for the museum’s contemporary artist project space, and Entre/Between, a multi-sited focus show dedicated to Latinx art and history in the permanent collection at Crystal Bridges with video and performances at the Momentary. She is also curator-on-the-ground supporting Dr. Michelle Finamore’s Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour, Crystal Bridges’ first fashion exhibition which surveys US designers’ contributions to fashion’s global stage while underscoring how historically excluded designers and wearers have led in defining American fashion.
Her recent publications include “Listening to Ana Mendieta,” a peer-reviewed article of new research on the artist in the Archives of American Art Journal’s fall 2021 issue; “Refashioning the World: Whiteness, Racial Plagiarism, and Diversifying the Future” in the exhibition catalog for Fashioning America; and “Telling Truths, Expanding Histories” in Views of Crystal Bridges, the museum’s 2022 collections guide. She has expanded both the Crystal Bridges’ and Art Bridges’ collections with works by Edouard Duval-Carrié, Alfred Conteh, Alfredo Jaar, Arthur Jafa, Patrick Martinez, Ana Mendieta, Shirin Neshat, Kenny Rivero, Shizu Saldamando, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.Dr. Rodríguez holds a PhD in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, “Performing Exile: Cuban-American Women’s Performance Art, 1972–2014,” is the first to examine Ana Mendieta, Carmelita Tropicana, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Coco Fusco together, arguing their work embodies US-Cuba diplomatic relations of the late 20th century and reflecting on the effects of exile as seen in Tania Bruguera’s work in relationship to President Barack Obama’s 2014 announcement of normalizing relations between the two nations.
Her research and scholarship have been supported by fellowships from Luce / the American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the US Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Program, and the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An alumna of the Center for Curatorial Leadership / Mellon Foundation Seminar and the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Museum Studies Program, she has held fellowships, internships, and positions at Figure One Exhibition Lab Space, Frost Art Museum, Krannert Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Spurlock Museum.
Sponsored by Baldwin & Shell | Cindy Flynt Walters and Betty Flynt.
Entre/Between is sponsored by Phillips.