Artist and activist Melanie Cervantes to visit Cornell

'Art in Action,' the weeklong campus visit of artist and activist Melanie Cervantes, will feature lunch and informal conversation with the artist March 14 at 12:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of Rockefeller Hall, and a public talk at 4:40 p.m. the same day in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall. The lunch will also include a tour of the 'We See You/Witness Project' and artwork by Yasmín Hernández, B.F.A. '97, that is installed at the Latina/o Studies Program. Cervantes co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration, with Jesus Barraza in 2007. Dignidad Rebelde produces screen prints, political posters and multimedia projects grounded in developing nations and indigenous movements. As part of the Freedom Interrupted Witness Project at Cornell, a display of Dignidad Rebelde posters has been on view at the Latina/o Studies Program office since the fall. 'The artwork builds on people's power to transform the conditions of fragmentation, displacement and loss of culture that result from histories of colonialism, genocide and exploitation,' Cervantes writes.