Amalia Mesa-Bains
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Amalia Mesa-Bains
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Amalia Mesa-Bains, is a Chicana curator, author, visual artist, and educator. She is best known for her large-scale installations that reference home altars and ofrendas. Her work engages in a conceptual exploration of Mexican American women's spiritual practices that addresses colonial and imperial histories of display, the recovery of cultural memory, and their roles in identity formation. In her writing, she examines the formation of Chicana identity and aesthetic practices, the shared experi
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American artist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_Mesa-Bains
date created:
2009-04-26T01:03:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T14:02:04Z
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