Katz (front) and other members of the Penn team on a dugout canoe used for transit between villages.
June 26, 2023
ART ON THE RIVER
Jonathan Katz, Associate Professor of Practice of History of Art and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, takes an art exhibition down the Amazon.
Monday, May 22, 2023 | By Jane Carroll | Photography courtesy of Jonathan Katz
This winter found Jonathan Katz floating on a raft down the Amazon River to visit Indigenous communities for an art exhibition.
It was all part of “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present,” a project led by Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. The $5 million grant is part of Mellon’s Just Futures initiative. Dispossessions in the Americas aims to document territorial, embodied, linguistic, and cultural heritage dispossessions in the Americas and to recover histories and promote restorative justice.
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