Faculty Member Awarded Andy Warhol Creative Capital Arts Writer Grant

Art History Professor Roberto Tejada explores Mexican arts subcultures in new book

The Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation has recently announced two good pieces of news: their successful three-year Arts Writers Grant Program pilot will be extended another five years…and along with that, they announced the winners of the 2009 round of grants. The grants are designed to support writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art. This year, Professor Roberto Tejada, who joined our Art History faculty in the fall of 2008, was awarded one of these highly sought-after and competitive grants for his book of interrelated essays “Mexico City Specific.” In it he explores subcultures in Mexico City in the 1990s that formed legitimate art scenes; the artist-run spaces, informal venues for critical debate, and the independent art-critic collective, Curare, that formed in this significant art-historical milieu.