Fall 2025 LALS Film Festival | Oct. 9 – Nov. 7 | Floyd Theatre, Ekstrom Library
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program (LALS), housed within the Department of Interdisciplinary and Public Humanities, along with the Classical and Modern Languages Department, proudly present the 32nd edition of the “Reel” Latin America(n) Film Festival.
In the summer of 2025, the Hite Art Institute launched its inaugural study abroad in Venice, Italy. Twenty-two student artists in varying fields of study, practices, and mediums spent three weeks in the “city of illusions.” They were tasked with observing and photographing Venetian life in a unique light, a light that avoids typical travel photography styles and opts for fresh images of a city known for its iconic imagery.
This exhibition sheds light onto Louisville’s evolution in the 20th century through urban renewal practices via three models: the first is an artistic intervention by Cassidy Meurer into the Urban Renewal Commission Photograph Collection, housed at UofL Archives & Special Collections. Appraisal survey photographs taken by the city’s Urban Renewal Commission are collaged together to reimagine the streets of downtown Louisville as they once existed, interrogating notions of progress.
Drawing from the University of Louisville Photographic Archives’ extensive Standard Oil (New Jersey) and Fine Print Collections, Doing Americana: Photography, Mythology, and the American Dream peels back the layers of the seemingly natural myth of the American “good life.” Collaboratively curated by a mixed undergraduate and graduate class in the Spring of 2025, this exhibition invites viewers to look closer at how photography
Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention brings together the work of Priscilla Briggs, Victoria Crayhon, and Sue Wrbican - three artists who use photography as a tool for fabrication and inquiry in an age when the act of making a photograph is no longer bound to simply documenting what is before us. These artists employ photography as a stage for construction, manipulation, and critique.
In the practice of art making artists often reflect on the past to comment on their present. In Interventions, the participating artists use the past as a guide for the crafting of their work. Sometimes personal and invisible, othertimes broadly shared, each intervention offers a new, often more hopeful understanding of the past, and our relationships with identity, gender, race and queerness
Children's books created by Hilaria Cruz, associate professor in the Interdisciplinary and Public Humanities Department, have been translated into Indigenous languages of Nepal and distributed to a remote mountain village.
The books were developed in collaboration with students from the University of Louisville and Dartmouth College.
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