Frida Kahlo's Creativity: Staging Art Staging Life, 7 pm June 23

Dr. Zavala, curator of the exhibition "Frida Kahlo: Art Garden Life" (New York Botanical Garden 2015), explores Frida Kahlo’s creativity in the context of the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution in a virtual lecture Wednesday, June 23, beginning at 7 p.m.

The lecture will offer a close examination of several of the artist’s most important paintings and will also consider how Kahlo’s self-adornment and the creative arrangement of her home and garden were equally important modes of creative expression. In addition, Zavala's presentation will touch upon the ways that other artists, ranging from Diego Rivera to photographers like Nickolas Muray, collaborated with Kahlo to facilitate the promotion of her art, her cultural politics, and her image.

Tickets are $10 per household. Admission includes access to a LIVE Q&A/discussion with Adriana Zavala on Zoom immediately following the lecture. For more information visit AtTheMAC.org.

Adriana Zavala, PhD, is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Race, Colonialism and Diaspora studies at Tufts University. She is a scholar and teacher of modern Mexican and US Latinx art. She guest curated the 2015 show “Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life” which opened at the New York Botanical Garden and focused on the exquisite garden at Frida Kahlo’s home in Mexico City, the Casa Azul, and explores the gardens’ connection to her painting.