September 01, 2004
Visiones: Latino Art and Culture
Latino artists across the United States take center stage in Visiones: Latino Art and Culture , a six-part series airing Sundays, beginning Sept. 5 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET2 and Thursdays, beginning Sept. 16 at 10:30/9:30 p.m. CT on KET1.
The series portrays the world of Latino artistic expression, capturing rich stories about theater, music, dance, spoken word and the visual arts, from New York City's hip hop culture to mural painters in Los Angeles and Chicago to theater in Texas.
Visiones is the first PBS series to focus exclusively on Latino artistic expression in the United States. Through storytelling and vivid imagery, the series leads the viewer to understand the origins of Latino art and culture. It also depicts the struggles and victories of the artists as part of their artistic interpretation. Additionally, it examines the nation's diverse Latino communities and how they were able to keep their artistic expressions alive while creating new and unique visions that contribute to art in America.
The six episodes cover topics and artists such as the Latino Mural Movement of the 1960s, Nuyorican spoken word, Miriam Colon and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Company (PRTT) of New York, the Santero art tradition of New Mexico, Luis Valdez and the legendary Teatro Campesino, performance artists, Latino hip hop dance and culture, the variety of music styles in Miami, Latino poetry, dancer Rudy Perez and the first Mexican-American prima ballerina, Evelyn Cisneros.
Visions: Latino Art and Culture is produced by Galán Inc. and National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC). The series is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET's six digital channels by visiting the KET Web site at www.ket.org.