January 25, 2025

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Latinx art at Lubeznik Center for the Arts Michigan City from DePaul

This war-protesting 1970 portrait by Errol Ortiz, known as one of the Chicago Imagists, hangs in the "LatinXAmerican" exhibit at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City.

The fabric with rusty imprints of the U.S.-Mexico border wall is so earthy and subtle — neither as flashy nor seductive as the art all-around it — that, Show Director Lora Fosberg says, “You just about want to dismiss it.” 

“But then you are happy you didn’t,” she provides. 

That mirrors the actuality for lots of neglected Latinx artists that the DePaul College Art Museum in Chicago is trying to accurate.  

And, now, so is the Lubeznik Centre for the Arts in Michigan Town with the 41-piece show bearing sculptures, a cartoon, a movie, graphics, paintings and blended media from almost 30 artists, titled “LatinXAmerican,” that Fosberg culled from DePaul’s endeavours. It is on display through June 11. 

DePaul museum Director Laura-Caroline Johnson suggests the college lately reckoned with its “abysmal” illustration of its very own Latinx neighborhood. Out of a selection of some 3,500 items, she says, only 70 to 80 will work had been by Latinx artists. That paled in comparison with Chicago’s more than 30% Latinx populace and the 16% who make up the student physique, she says.