Episode 118: Alma Lopez
Latinos Who Lunch
Latinos Who Lunch
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Alma Lopez became a nationally known visual artist when her art piece titled “Our Lady,” became the center of controversy in a dispute where freedom of expression and repressive traditionalism enlarged the already grandeur of her work. In this interview, Lopez recounts the details leading and following the initial controversy in 2001, and her most recent publication on the case, Our Lady of Controversy, a book of essays in which women scholars and artists describe the importance of this seminal artwork. Also, as a native from Sinaloa she talks to Favy and Babelito about her favorite foods, her famous agua de Jamaica, and her recent work as a UCLA professor. This and much more in this amazing and important interview with one of the most infamous artists of the Chicanx art scene in the U.S. As always send your questions to AskLWLPod@gmail.com and we might read them on a future episode. #podsincolor #supportbrownpodcasts #supportlatinxpodcasts #lwlpod
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Fabi Fab and this is Babylito, and we are Latinos who lunch, the podcast where we talk about important things like Mexican-born queer |
| 0:16.8 | chicanas. |
| 0:17.8 | Hey! |
| 0:21.8 | Hello! Hello hello. |
| 0:25.0 | hello. |
| 0:26.0 | Kisho Kisho, Kisho. |
| 0:27.0 | How are you Babelito? |
| 0:29.0 | I am excited to leave the same room with you for once. |
| 0:32.0 | I know we usually record the podcast in different cities but we also have the honor I'm just going to get right to it. We're in Alma Lopez's studio in Los Angeles. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for having us in your studio. |
| 0:46.1 | You are welcome. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm so excited to meet Latinos who lunch. |
| 0:50.6 | This is us in the flesh. |
| 0:52.1 | What do you think? |
| 0:53.0 | Yummy, yummy. |
| 0:55.0 | I gotta confess, I've been teaching your art for seven years in my classes. |
| 1:00.0 | So as soon as you opened the door my stomach just dropped. |
| 1:04.0 | So we're very honored. |
| 1:06.0 | You're a very important figure for all of us. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm just going to get it out of the way. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you for that. And now we can get into it. |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, I mean I've heard about your work for a long time now and I just want to get a few things out of the way too. |
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