UMBC's Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts and the Dresher Center for the Humanities present Johanna Toruño, a Salvadoran-born, community-taught visual artist who uses the streets as a public platform and gallery. Raised in San Salvador until being displaced in the U.S. at 10, she is inspired by her experiences growing up in the aftermath of the civil war to use poster work as a medium to self-express and center a queer migrant lens. As she explains, “political art is the people’s art as it has been used for many generations.” In this talk, Unapologetic: Street Art as Activism and Liberation, Toruño will discuss how she utilizes street art as a tool of resistance.

Admission is free, and a reception will follow.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for Humanities, the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), the Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association, the Public Humanities Program, the Latin American Studies Minor, and the Latin American Feminisms Working Group.

This event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative.