Species of the River: Yaqui (Yoeme) communities in Mexico and the United States BY SELINA MARTÍNEZ, MAGDALENA ARAUS SIEBER, DIEGO ATEHORTÚA | POSTED IN All Projects, Mesoamerica Share ‘Species of the River’ is a collaborative research project with Yaqui architect Selina Martínez (Arizona) to examine questions of territorial identity, dispossession, community memory and storytelling, and the connection between culture and design in Yaqui communities on both sides of the present-day US/Mexico border. Selina Martínez is a Yaqui architect from Penjamo – Scottsdale, Arizona (US) who has dedica ..read more

Jorge Martínez Valderrama is a sound artist and inaugural digital resident of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research. He presented 'Saa Ñu’ú' (Birds/Clay) for the first time to the public through a digital open studio via Zoom in June 2021 ..read more

The British Museum is seeking a Project Curator: Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research to join the AOA department. The main purpose of this role is to work as part of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research to support SDCELAR research fellows and research affiliates in their collaborative BM research projects and improve the documentation and digitisation of the British Museum collections ..read more

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Roseane Cadete Wapichana is an Indigenous historian of the Wapichana people from Roraima, Brazil. Read here the speech she gave in the event 'Strengthening Threads' at the British Museum ..read more

Ateliê-Lavrado: A Wapichana Residency BY GUSTAVO CABOCO, ROSEANE CADETE, JAMILLE PINHEIRO DIAS, DIEGO ATEHORTÚA, MAGDALENA ARAUS SIEBER | POSTED IN All Projects, Amazonia Share This SDCELAR project and artistic residency grows from ongoing research collaboration with Wapichana artist Gustavo Caboco and historian and teacher Roseane Cadete from Brazil, who visited the British Museum in Summer 2023 and created a in a range of activities around Wapichana materials from the collection. The Wapichana are an Arawak-speaking Amazonian people from northern Brazil and southern Guyana. The colony o ..read more

Hay Cartagena 2024 (25-28 January) will feature three events where the authors will share their experiences working alongside SDCELAR curators to create their stories inspired by these archives called ‘Ethnographic Documents’. The talks will be in person in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and will have simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish ..read more

This new collaboration with Hay Festival explores the paper trails of Latin America and the Caribbean at the British Museum through a lesser-known collection of ‘Ethnographic Documents’. The anthology Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves: Writers in the Archives of the British Museum, will be published in English and Spanish ..read more

You can now watch out our talk about Latin America and the Caribbean, in which SDCELAR members and collaborators speak about collection projects with living communities in the region ..read more

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