[Sehefac] Fwd: Thursday, June 5, 5pm To Rise Above Ruins

[Dana Simmons]

Hello all,
Please see and share this amazing event on Thursday, organized by SEHE
faculty Cathy Gudis with support from SEHE student interns. All are
welcome! The topics intersect with Latin American history, environmental
justice, climate change, and issues of race and nation - in case anyone is
looking for an extra credit opportunity for students.....

*Thursday, June 5 @ 5pm, UCR Arts, Screening and Discussion: **"To Rise
Above Ruins: Archives, Industry, & the 'American Century.'" *The discussion
between photographer Tamara Cedré (Pitzer College), scholar Hilda Lloréns
(University of Rhode Island), and exhibition curator Cathy Gudis (UCR)
explores recent projects by Cedré on view in the exhibition *To Rise Above
Ruins* at the Riverside Art Museum (through September 28, 2025). In these
works, Cedré brings archival materials (ads, historical photos, news
articles, family scrapbooks) into visual dialogue with her own contemporary
photographs. Taken together, they reveal changing land use and impacts of
military and industrial developments in the communities the photographer
calls home in Puerto Rico and Southern California.

Panelists will explore the processes of U.S. colonization over the 20th
century, dubbed the “American Century,” as the U.S. exerted its global
economic power and “soft” power of mass media and consumer culture to
extract from land and labor in both regions, with huge environmental and
human costs. Clips will be screened from Cedré’s *Diario de Verano*,
2015-2023, a video collage composed of personal moments which chronicle the
artist’s experiences with family in Puerto Rico through hurricanes,
earthquakes, power failures, and economic downturn.

Following the discussion, all are invited to a reception (7 – 9 pm) and to
view the exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum.
<https://riversideartmuseum.org/>

*Tamara Cedré* is lens-based artist and educator who uses documentary forms
to reveal the conditions of underrepresented communities. Her artistic
practice employs archives to address issues at the nexus of land, labor,
migration and identity. A first-generation stateside Puerto Rican, Cedré
brings a deeply personal perspective to her exploration of colonial
histories and their enduring impacts. Her projects are rooted in the
landscapes of Puerto Rico and Southern California, which she considers
home. Cedré received her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and has
been the recipient of awards and grants from the Center for Creative
Citizenship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the California Arts Council.
She is currently a Visiting Professor at Pitzer College and UCLA and
lives/works along the route of the supply chain between Los Angeles and the
Inland Empire.

*Catherine Gudis* is a Professor of History, directs the Public History
Program, and is faculty in the Department of Society, Environment, and
Health Equity at UC Riverside. For over 20 years, she has worked with art
and history museums, in preservation, and on multiplatform site-specific
environmental humanities projects. As founder and a co-director of the
digital archive and mapping platform, *A People’s History of the Inland
Empire*, she co-curated *Live from the Frontline*, a series of exhibitions
and community art projects that explores 8 neighborhoods linked by the long
history of logistics. She guest curated *To Rise Above Ruins* at the
Riverside Art Museum.

*Hilda Lloréns* is a Professor of Gender & Women Studies, Anthropology, and
Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of *Imaging
the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the
American Century* (2014), and *Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican
Women Building Environmental Justice* (2021). Dr. Lloréns’s research,
writing, and teaching focus on race, gender, ecology, and environment, and
culture and power in the Americas. She has written widely about these
topics.

Cosponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and Departments of
History; Anthropology; and Society, Environment, and Health Equity.

https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/events/to-rise-above-ruins/
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