Worcester State University Student Presentations in Spanish on 'Highest Heaven'

At special event on Thursday, April 20th from 6-7:30 Worcester State University graduate students will present their research on paintings and artifacts in the exhibition Highest Heaven: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection, in Spanish in the Hiatt Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum. We invite everyone to attend and extend a special welcome to those in Worcester’s Spanish-speaking community for an in-depth look at these stunning paintings and their cultural contexts. The presenters, Poliana Alarcon, Carolyn Bernier, Zachary D'Orsi, Elizabeth Flaherty, Am Cecil Fuoti, Juan Hernandez, Jenny Lizardo, Adriana Lugo Zayas, Kerry Moynihan, Nora O’Brien, Thomas Pokoly, Gloria Rivera, and Scott Sponseller, are all students in Dr. Antonio Guijarro-Donadios’ class “Conquistadors and the Conquered: Gold, Religion, and Colonial Culture in the High Plains of South America.”

The students visited WAM in March and each chose an object from the exhibition. Then, with the help of their professor along with the WAM librarian Deborah Aframe, they conducted research in the Museum library and wrote a paper connecting the art object, their research and their course studies on colonial narratives.

The event will be held as part of WAM’s Third Thursday events, monthly evenings offering live music, cheese and crackers, and a cash bar. The Museum will be open until 8 pm. Students from institutions such as WSU that have a WAM institutional membership receive free entrance to the Museum with their WSU ID. For more information about the event contact aguijarrodonadios@worcester.edu or kwaters@worcester.edu

Learn more about Highest Heaven

- Kristin Waters, Ph.D.

Presidential Fellow for Art, Education, and Community
Professor of Philosophy
Worcester State University

Image: Our Lady of Candlemas with Donors, Roberta and Richard Huber Collection. Photograph by Graydon Wood, Philadelphia Museum of Art.