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Join artist Ronny Quevedo and author Xochitl Gonzalez for a conversation on memory and cultural narratives, drawing on their shared experiences of growing up in New York City. Together, they will discuss how personal and collective histories influence their creative work, examining the ways stories and experiences are shaped by place and community.

This program is copresented with Inprint Houston.

Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last, a Reese’s Book Club Pick longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the award-winning Olga Dies Dreaming, named a Best of 2022 by The New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post, and NPR. Gonzalez is a staff writer for The Atlantic and was recognized as a 2023 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Ronny Quevedo received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2003 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. From 2012 to 2014, he was a CORE Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Quevedo had a solo exhibition no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime at the Queens Museum, New York (2017), and his work was included in the group exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018). Quevedo was one of six artists commissioned to create large-scale permanent installations at New York’s LaGuardia Airport; Pacha Cosmopolitanism Overtime was unveiled in 2022. His work is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, among others.

This program takes place at the Menil Drawing Institute, located at 1412 W. Main St. Additional information regarding accessibility and parking can be found here.

As always, Menil programs are free and open to all.