Art and Activism: Mural Tour with Yehimi Cambrón

Wren Nelson

Mural tour with artist and activist Yehimi Cambrón.

Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church

Please join us for a mural tour with artist and activist Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez.The tour will start from Glenn Memorial on Emory's campus (map below) and visit five of Cambrón’s landmark murals in Downtown Decatur, Downtown Atlanta, and Buford Highway, where she will speak in situ about her creative process and approach to community engagement through public art. Please arrive on time for a 10 am departure. Boxed lunches from Panera will be provided, but it is advised that participants bring their own water/drinks. We will stop right near Kelly’s Market in Downtown Decatur at the beginning of the day, so additional supplies can be purchased there. Bus will be a standard coach with 56 seats, outfitted with a bathroom. Please reach out with any accessibility requests.Artist BioYehimi Cambrón Álvarez is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and public speaker born in Michoacán, México. She immigrated to Georgia at seven, grew up undocumented in Atlanta, and has been a DACA recipient since 2013.Cambrón’s work explores the nuances of undocumentedness and its thread in the movement toward collective liberation. Through public art, she has served as a monument-maker asserting the humanity of immigrants in Atlanta, claiming barren walls to paint landmarks that belong to undocumented people. Her work institutes a space for immigrants within the South's dominant racial binary. From her first mural on Buford Hwy to her mural at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, she confronts the idea of who is worthy of public celebration in the home of the largest Confederate monument in the nation. She has worked to complicate the immigrant narrative beyond murals through portraits and site-specific installations. Cambrón has had solo exhibitions at the University of South Carolina’s Upstate Art Gallery (2022) and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (2023), and has exhibited at Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the High Museum of Art.Cambrón received a B.A. in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College (2014) fully funded by the Goizueta Foundation. In 2015, she became an educator and one of the first Teach for America DACAmented Corps Members placed in Georgia. Two years later, she returned to Cross Keys High School, her alma mater, to teach art. In 2019, Cambrón left the classroom to pursue art full-time. She is completing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a recipient of the 2023 Paul &amp; Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and is expanding her practice into fibers, sculpture, and discarded materials from her family's commercial furniture-making practice in Atlanta. IDEAS WeekIDEAS Week is an annual series of public events dedicated to promoting liberal arts and interdisciplinary education. Each iteration is organized around a theme and keynote speaker and traditionally features the Da Vinci Talks, where Emory undergraduate students can present their research for a chance to win a cash prize and an Interdisciplinary Faculty Conversation. Previous themes have included Immigration and Gender (2024), Breaking the Cycle (2023), and Innovating the Arts (2021). Header Image courtesy of Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez

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