Please save the date for the CLAA Artists’ Summit and Workshop: Cultivating Compassion for Migrants through Fine Arts and Prose, a workshop and speaker series on Tuesday, November 9 through Wednesday November 10, appearing in conjunction with the Migration Narratives project and the Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) exhibition at UTRGV. 

The planned event will be a collaboration between Sister Norma Pimentel, the Executive Director of the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV), award winning poet, writer, and activist Luis Urrea, journalist, writer, and anthropologist Cecilia Ballí, food historian and writer Melissa Guerra, and artist Rigoberto A. González, winner of the 2021 Migration Narrative grant, and UTRGV MFA alumni Olga Alanis, art instructor at South Texas College. This series will address issues related to immigration and share experiences and storytelling through art, creative writing, and other discourses on the borderlands. 

Artists’ Summit and Workshop: Cultivating Compassion for Migrants through Fine Arts and Prose

Location: Edinburg UTRGV Library, 2^nd Floor, ELBR 2.114 (strongly encouraged to wear masks) 

Date: Tuesday, Nov. 9 - Wednesday, Nov. 10  

Time: Tuesday –10:30 AM to 2:00 PM; Wednesday – 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM 

View the PDF Itinerary here.  

Lunch will be served

There will be a Zoom option, although this event is planned to be in person. Register in advance here. See the poster attached to this email. 

For more updates, visit our website  and follow our social media: @claa.utrgv (Instagram), UTRGV Center for Latin American Arts (Facebook), and The Center for Latin American Arts (YouTube Channel). 

We look forward to your participation, and we hope you can join us and share news of this event with your students!