Learning from Laura Aguilar

Sunday, Nov 8, 2026 4pm Getty Center & Online Museum Lecture Hall Free Tickets are free, but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Center entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking. To watch online, register via Zoom. Once you register, you'll receive an email detailing how to join online. Get tickets About Photographing in Los Angeles throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Laura Aguilar documented experiences of Angelenos of color, queer communities, and disabled people, challenging stigmas and stereotypes. Featured in the exhibition Every Minute is History: Five Views of Los Angeles, Aguilar’s work continues to inspire today’s generation of scholars and artists . Join a panel of distinguished speakers for a conversation on Aguilar’s legacy, archive, and the pedagogical approaches of her work carried forward by a new generation. This program is presented in conjunction with the Huntington's exhibition Laura Aguilar: Day of the Dead. The Huntington will present a public program Acts of Remembrance: Laura Aguilar’s Day of the Dead Photographs on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 1-4 p.m. Event Categories and Location List TalkGetty Center Speakers Andrew Campbell Art Historian, Critic, and Curator Andy Campbell is an historian of art, design, and queer cultures and communities. He is the author of Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art and Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ. He is the curator of Susan Silton: Diving into the Wreck, up currently at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and the attendant catalogue published by Blaffer Art Museum and Inventory Press. As editor-in-chief of Art Journal Open he oversees the open-access publishing arm of CAA, and he is now entering his tenth year teaching at USC's Roski School of Art and Design, where he is an associate professor of critical studies. Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez Professor of Chicana/o Studies Micaela Díaz-Sánchez is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on how gender, race, sexuality, and diasporic subjectivities are performed in visual art, theater, music and other embodied aesthetic practices. She teaches in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCSB focusing on Chicana Art and Feminism, Afro-Latina/o/x Diasporic Performance, Latina/o/x Performance Studies, and Teatro Chicana/o/x. She has published widely and her book chapter, “Rebozos, huipiles, ¿y qué?”: Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy," won the 2021 Antonia I. Castañeda Prize from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Marco Antonio Flores Curator and Art Historian Marco Antonio Flores is a curator and historian of modern and contemporary art across the Americas. He is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at Stanford University, where he specializes in the photography and film of Laura Aguilar, as well as art’s connection to literature and poetry. His recent curatorial projects include Me Llaman Calle: The Monumental Art of Juana Alicia (2024) at the San Francisco Arts Commission, and LA LA LA: Photographic Experiments by Patssi Valdez Since 1970 (2026) in collaboration with the AltaMed Art Collection. Christopher Velasco Artist Christopher Anthony Velasco is a Los Angeles-based photographer and performance artist who explores the queer brown body and blends horror with camp aesthetics. He holds an MFA from UC Santa Barbara and a BFA from CalArts. He teaches at Moorpark College, Los Angeles City College, and the California State Summer School for the Arts. His work has been exhibited at Highways Performance Space, Gallery Luisotti, the Getty Museum, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. Sybil Venegas Curator and Art Historian Sybil Venegas is an independent art historian, curator and professor emerita of Chicana/o Studies at East Los Angeles College. She is among the first art historians to historicize Chicana art and is a recognized scholar in Chicana feminist art history as well as the cultural politics of Dia de los Muertos ceremonials in Chicanx/Latinx communities. She curated the retrospective exhibition Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, which traveled to four museums between 2017–2021.