Diciembre - Enero
Opening Reception | Friday, December 2: 6-9pm
Featuring a food pop-up by Las Koritas Authetic Kitchen
La Onda is dynamic series of exhibitions organized by Kansas City artists and curators Cesar Lopez and Kiki Serna focused on Latine/x heritage in the region. The group show at stop-gap projects in Columbia, MO is the 11th iteration of this traveling exhibition and will feature artists Abraham Diaz, Marina Cano, Frank Vega, Cesar Lopez, and S. Alvarez.
“La Onda is a curatorial experiment that celebrates Latino heritage as something persistent” Lopez explains of the motivations for the project. “I just felt there needed to be more than one reminder per year of the multicultural spectrum we have to offer.” For Serna, “the message behind La Onda is that our communities have many narratives—some similar, some different. The act of collectively sharing and having conversations within these themes unifies voices and by extension amplifies the community.”
To extend the conversation, stop-gap’s co-founder Fidencio Fifield-Perez talked with Kiki and Cesar about the project and its complexities and possibilities. Read the incredibly rich and thoughtful interview here:
