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Spend your Saturday afternoon with our virtual panel of experts sharing insights about our shared experience of querencia as we navigate change in our digital worlds.
Join us for a conversation about how technology and social change affect our experience of querencia and how querencias are both lost and reclaimed. Panelists Myrriah Gómez, Moises Gonzales, Patricia Perea, and Levi Romero will share their visions of querencia and its role in community connection throughout New Mexico.
Online via Zoom
Saturday, March 6, 1 p.m.
Register Here by 12:30 p.m.
More about our panelists
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Moderator and Enduring Querencias guest curator Esther Garcia is a proud daughter of New Mexico. She is in the master’s program in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. She feels blessed to intertwine in a circle within her community that motivates her daily to grow, develop, and capture each day’s uniqueness. In her academic work, she emphasizes the value of preserving oral histories and has utilized writing, photography, and short films to document local culture and practices. Her poetry comes from her heart, her life-experiences, expressions of home, and the community where she feels nurtured and safe.
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Myrriah Gómez is Assistant Professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from New Mexico Highlands University and a Master’s degree from The University of New Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in Latina/o Studies from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2014. Myrriah received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Academies in 2011, which enabled her to return to New Mexico to conduct empirical and archival research for her dissertation. She received the UNM Faculty of Color award for Teaching in 2015. Myrriah’s current book project is entitled Nuclear Nuevo México: Identity, Ethnicity, and Resistance in Atomic Third Spaces. She is a proud Nuevomexicana, who is always in search of ways to better the lives of New Mexicans.
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Moises Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Community and Regional Planning Program at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. He also serves as the Director of the Resource Center for Raza Planning, a community outreach center within the School of Architecture and Planning whose mission is to provide technical assistance in the areas of community development, design, and natural resource planning for traditional communities throughout New Mexico. Moises's teaching focus is in Physical Planning and Urban Design as well as Historic Preservation of the Southwest. Moises is co-editor with Enrique R. LaMadrid of the recent book, Nación Genízara, Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico by University of New Mexico Press (2019). Moises Gonzales is also Co-Author along with Robert William Piatt, Jr. of the book, Slavery in the Southwest Genizaro Identity, Dignity and the Law by Carolina Academic Press (2019).
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Patricia Perea is a published poet. She is currently the History and Literary Arts educator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She also teaches in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico.
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Levi Romero was selected as the inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate in 2020 and New Mexico Centennial Poet in 2012. His most recent book is the co-edited anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland. His two collections of poetry are A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works and In the Gathering of Silence. He is co-author of Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland. He is an Assistant Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at the University of New Mexico.Click to edit this placeholder text. |
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Now on Exhibit Outdoors at GHH!
Join us for a new exhibit on the Gutierrez Hubbell House History & Cultural Center grounds. Enduring Querencias: Lost and reclaimed expressions of home shares the photos, memories, and poetry of Guest Curator Esther M. Garcia and other South Valley residents in a nuanced reflection on loss and resilience.
Enduring Querencias draws on poetry, story-telling, and visual imagery to capture the South Valley’s cultural landscape and people. It explores how different South Valley residents answer the question: what happens when a sense of home is lost and when it is reclaimed?
Ms. Garcia says “Creating Enduring Querencias brought me back to my roots. The observations and conversations rekindled my attachment to home, and gave me a feeling of safety, nurturing, and belonging. They are not an outsider’s perspective. I am an MA student in the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at the University of New Mexico. Born and raised in the South Valley, as a daughter of the community, I am invested and compelled to draw from the past to honor a truth born of this place, mi querencia.”
The exhibit is located outdoors, along the Open Space walking trails. More information about the exhibit at www.bernco.gov/EnduringQuerencias. The grounds, trails, and parking are open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. Gutiérrez-Hubbell House itself and restrooms remain closed to the public.
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How to Participate:
What: Enduring Querencias: Lost and Reclaimed Expressions of Home, an outdoor exhibit
Dates: December 19, 2020 - extended through Sunday, May 16, 2021
Location: Gutiérrez-Hubbell House, a Bernalillo County Open Space; 6029 Isleta Blvd SW
Hours: trails, grounds, and parking open dawn-to-dusk, every day
Call 505-244-0507 for more information or to request accommodation.
Museum and grounds are ADA compliant and NM Safe Certified for COVID-19 safe practices.
Please follow Covid-safe practices when visiting the exhibit and grounds. For more info, please see: https://www.bernco.gov/coronavirus or our video explaining guidelines for safely visiting Bernalillo County Open Spaces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxX74U9ry_E
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