Virtual Artist Talk: Cara Romero (Chemehuevi)
Cara Romero, "Starlight, Starbright", 2023, archival pigment photograph. Private Collection.
In conjunction with the Zimmerli Art Museum’s exhibition Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Cara Romero virtually joins us to discuss her photographs “Arla Lucia” and “Starlight, Starbright” and her wider photography practice on June 9 at 7pm. Please register for the Zoom webinar.
Free & open to the public. You must register in advance for this webinar on Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_buI5y-YpTdG_6kcwUgJ0CQ
About the Artist: Growing up in contrasting settings of rural reservation and urban sprawl, Cara Romero now possesses a bicultural Indigenous identity. She pursued an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology at the University of Houston but became disillusioned by the way Native Americans are portrayed in academia and media. Realizing that photography could do more in images than anthropology did in words, she trained in photojournalism, editorial portraiture and film, and digital, commercial, and fine art photography. Romero travels between Santa Fe and the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation in Chemehuevi Valley, California, where she maintains close ties to her tribal community and ancestral homelands.