Open Forum

Latino Museums in the Cultural Landscape

Latino Museums are among the many culturally-specific museums that populate the American landscape Guide to Latino & Hispanic Museums in the US - Mi Legasi - Mi LegaSi  These museums help to express how Latinos/Hispanics want or choose to be represented in the larger American culture. They provoke the question--what constitutes representation? What shapes that representation--imagination, nostalgia, power, money, demographics? This panel of leading Latino museum professionals will explore some of the dimensions of culturally specific representation using Latino museums as their springboard.

Salvador Acevedo is the Managing Partner at Scansion, a people-centered design strategy firm, which helps organizations prepare for a more equitable future. He has over 25 years of experience helping all types of organizations to link their design and innovation strategies with various cultures within the US. Being bilingual and bicultural gives him the ability to recognize the cultural markers that signal inclusion, and he's committed to opening opportunities for all. As a consultant, he's helped organizations increase diversity, deepen inclusion, and advance equity in a broad range of fields, from arts and culture to informal education and urban planning.

Estevan Rael-Gálvez  is an anthropologist, historian, and cultural consultant. He has served as the Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center and as the state historian of New Mexico. He is currently the Executive Director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of the Indigenous Enslaved, a digital initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation with the objective of documenting Indigenous slavery across the Americas. 

Tey Marianna Nunn is the Associate Director for Content and Interpretation for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). Her past positions include Director of the Smithsonian in American' Women's History Initiative (AWHI), Director and Chief Curator of the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Curator of Contemporary Hispano and Latino collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.  She has served on the Boards of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)and the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS).

Latino Museums in the Cultural Landscape

Latino Museums are among the many culturally-specific museums that populate the American landscape Guide to Latino & Hispanic Museums in the US - Mi Legasi - Mi LegaSi  These museums help to express how Latinos/Hispanics want or choose to be represented in the larger American culture. They provoke the question--what constitutes representation? What shapes that representation--imagination, nostalgia, power, money, demographics? This panel of leading Latino museum professionals will explore some of the dimensions of culturally specific representation using Latino museums as their springboard.

Salvador Acevedo is the Managing Partner at Scansion, a people-centered design strategy firm, which helps organizations prepare for a more equitable future. He has over 25 years of experience helping all types of organizations to link their design and innovation strategies with various cultures within the US. Being bilingual and bicultural gives him the ability to recognize the cultural markers that signal inclusion, and he's committed to opening opportunities for all. As a consultant, he's helped organizations increase diversity, deepen inclusion, and advance equity in a broad range of fields, from arts and culture to informal education and urban planning.

Estevan Rael-Gálvez  is an anthropologist, historian, and cultural consultant. He has served as the Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center and as the state historian of New Mexico. He is currently the Executive Director of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of the Indigenous Enslaved, a digital initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation with the objective of documenting Indigenous slavery across the Americas. 

Tey Marianna Nunn is the Associate Director for Content and Interpretation for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL). Her past positions include Director of the Smithsonian in American' Women's History Initiative (AWHI), Director and Chief Curator of the Art Museum and Visual Arts Program at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Curator of Contemporary Hispano and Latino collections at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.  She has served on the Boards of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)and the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS).