{"id":90910,"date":"2025-02-16T03:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/voca-receives-support-for-spanish-language-artist-interview-workshops-voca\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T03:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:35:58","slug":"voca-receives-support-for-spanish-language-artist-interview-workshops-voca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=90910","title":{"rendered":"VoCA Receives Support for Spanish-Language Artist Interview Workshops – VoCA"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We are thrilled to announce that thanks to generous support from the Colecci\u00f3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros<\/a> (CPPC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), VoCA is now offering a selection of our Artist Interview Workshops entirely in Spanish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commissioning and preservation of first-hand accounts from cultural producers in Latin America is a crucial aspect of the Colecci\u00f3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros\u2019 mission to support scholarship and promote the appreciation of art and culture from the region,\u201d says Alexa Halaby, co-director, Colecci\u00f3n Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. \u201cWe are thrilled to partner with VoCA and assist them in sharing their extensive knowledge and techniques with artists, scholars and arts professionals in Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries, where oral histories have a long-standing cultural significance.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

VoCA\u2019s grant from the NEA <\/span>is one of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling nearly $28.8 million that were announced by the NEA as part of its first round of fiscal year 2023 grants.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD shared: \u201cProjects such as this one with VoCA strengthen arts and cultural ecosystems, provide equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contribute to the health of our communities and our economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

VoCA\u2019s Artist Interview Workshops<\/a> provide conservators, curators, educators, and other arts professionals at all stages of their careers with a greater understanding of the methods and skills needed to conduct successful artist interviews. To date, more than 700 arts professionals from over 250 institutions worldwide have explored the process of artist interviews with us. \u201cBy offering our workshop to Spanish-speaking colleagues across the globe,\u201d says VoCA\u2019s Executive Director Lauren Shadford, \u201c<\/span>we continue to promote the message that interviewing artists is a uniquely complicated yet beautifully productive process for any arts professional and that interviews can be instrumental in the documentation and stewardship of an artist\u2019s work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We are grateful to our partners and incredible planning committee for working with us to determine the feasibility of shifting our longstanding workshop curriculum to a Spanish-speaking audience. In hallmark VoCA fashion, a small, dedicated committee of colleagues have volunteered countless hours to develop this program. We are indebted to them for their vision and leadership in laying the groundwork for the initiative:<\/span><\/p>\n