(Partner Event) Lorenzo Homar’s Cine Alba: An Intimate Portrait of North American Artists in Nineteen-Fifties Puerto Rico

Laura Katzman, Professor of Art History at James Madison University and 2024 Winner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize, will deliver a lecture on her prize-winning essay, “Lorenzo Homar’s Cine Alba: An Intimate Portrait of North American Artists in Nineteen-Fifties Puerto Rico,” which was published in José Orlando Sued and René Rodríguez-Ramírez, eds., “La mirada en construcción; ensayos sobre cultura visual” (San Juan: Luscinia C.E., 2022). Julio Capó, a juror for the prestigious prize and associate professor of history at Florida International University, stated that Katzman’s “deeply researched article…offers a nuanced reading of [Homar’s] work and demonstrates how it reflects key social, political and cultural moments in Puerto Rican history and, especially, its place in cultural nationalism. Katzman’s engaging, beautifully written essay is a masterwork in interdisciplinary research and analysis.”