In the studio she works with multilayered collaged paintings constructed of hand-dyed paper, paint, vinyl, plastics, and images from found books and magazines. Solis is an Austin, TX based artist and community organizer sharing her studio time between Texas and Mexico. She is originally from Brownsville, Texas. In 2013, she completed an MSIS from Texas State University-San Marcos with her quantitative study, “Spanish Language Music Consumption in Central Texas: Taste and Preferences.” Her academic and career goal is the preservation and conservation of Musica Tejana. She attended The University of Texas at Austin and received a BA in history. She has been an active member of MASS Gallery since 2011.įuentes is a graduate student at Texas State University-San Marcos in the Department of History with an emphasis on public history. She has also completed graduate coursework in museum studies and information studies. Edward’s University, in Austin, TX, and a master’s degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space. Erin holds a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from St. Her nationally recognized work for Arthouse at the Jones Center’s youth education programs impacted the lives of hundreds of young artists and educators. Erin has extensive professional experience in youthwork, bilingual education, and program design and project management, and has been involved in the creation and development of several small non-profit organizations, where she specialized in strategic planning, organizational development, and meeting facilitation. Gentry is a native of Mexico, was raised in the United States, and has been living and working in Austin since the late 1990s. By night, Ana spins records with Chulita Vinyl Club, a womens vinyl collective with chapters in Texas and California. She co-authored El Bajo Alberti, a children’s picture book published by Penguin Random House in 2014. Her journalism work has been published in Colombian magazines Arcadia, Diners and El Malpensante. Ana has always been interested in how people use music, records and media as a way to identify with society. 7, 2018.Ĭalle is a Colombian Ph.D student at The University of Texas at Austin researching Latin American literature and cultures. The EL DISCO ES CULTURA panel will occur in tandem and in collaboration with BossBabes ATX's and Chulita Vinyl Club’s exhibition, VOLUME hosted by The Center for the Study of the Southwest (CSSW) and the Center for Texas Music History (CTMH) at Texas State University. It’ll be an evening of good tunes, good tunes, good tunes celebrating vinyl culture and the opportunity to enjoy and preserve a piece of history. While there is no music genre policy in CVC, you can expect anything from your favorite Tejano éxitos, chicano soul-dies, and cumbia jammers to sixties girl-group tunes and disco and funk gems. Preceding and following the panel discussion, join CVC Austin for a live set. Using this concept as a launching off point, CVC performers and scholars Ana Cecilia Calle, Erin Gentry and Xochi Solis, and Texas State graduate student Evaliza Fuentes gather to discuss musical histories and collections as the framework for preserving and perpetuating cultural narratives, as well as the broader impact of archiving outside of the institution and how the methods of chronicling experiences and objects is attached to power. Spanning seven national chapters they bring together a community of vinyl loving folks under the belief that el disco es cultura and have established a strong coalition deliberately choosing to only play vinyl with the goal of activating a musical archive that might not otherwise be shared in the age of digital DJs. Chulita Vinyl Club (CVC) launched in 2014 out of Austin, TX with the context of providing a space for empowerment and togetherness as a collective of women-identifying and nonbinary DJs.
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