Book Launch for Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil

November 6, 2023 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Free and Open to the Public

Please join us to celebrate the release of the Visual Arts Center publication Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil, edited by Maria Emilia Fernandez, Adele Nelson, and MacKenzie Stevens and distributed by Tower Books, University of Texas Press.

The book will be available for sale, with a discount of 25%.

Brief remarks by the publication’s coeditors followed by wine and light bites.

Event funding support provided by Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship and the Art History Lecture Series.

This publication is made possible by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Lead support also provided by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil through the Consulate General of Brazil in Houston; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, New York; and Nara Roesler, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Additional support provided by Allison and David Ayers and the Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS); the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies; the Jackson School of Geosciences; the LLILAS Brazil Center; the Meredith and Cornelia Long Chair in Art and Art History; the Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts; and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavors at the University of Texas at Austin.

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