{"id":117,"date":"2023-09-25T03:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T03:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-alwaysbearound.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2024-03-05T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T01:02:22","slug":"maria-del-carmen-montoya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"Maria del Carmen Montoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corcoran.gwu.edu\/maria-del-carmen-montoya\">Maria del Carmen Montoya<\/a> operates in the contested ground between art and social activism. Her primary medium is the communal process of making meaning. As an artist, she seeks ways to catalyze this natural social phenomenon with situations that insist on the power of human-scale intervention in the presumed inevitability of everyday life. Her methodology is dialogic and collaborative. Montoya\u2019s interactive piece asks visitors to consider their own educational experiences, how we teach and learn, advocating for openness and radical vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-style-twentytwentyone-columns-overlap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/live-alwaysbearound.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/maria_del_carmen1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/maria_del_carmen1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/maria_del_carmen1-300x200.jpg 300w, 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https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_10-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_10.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><em>Teaching notes: Nothing, Everything, Anything, <\/em>2023 interactive installation<br> (Photo by Matthew Gamber)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-style-twentytwentyone-columns-overlap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/live-alwaysbearound.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_09-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_09-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_09-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_09-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cantor_art_gallery_always_be_around_corita_kent_09-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Teaching notes: Nothing, Everything, Anything, <\/em>2023 interactive installation<br> (Photo by Matthew Gamber)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large alignfull size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/live-alwaysbearound.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20231003_MI_Cantor_Exhibit_037-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20231003_MI_Cantor_Exhibit_037-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20231003_MI_Cantor_Exhibit_037-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20231003_MI_Cantor_Exhibit_037-768x512.jpg 768w, 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Her primary medium is the communal process of making meaning. As an artist, she seeks ways to catalyze this natural social phenomenon with situations that insist on the power of human-scale intervention in the presumed inevitability of everyday life. Her methodology&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/?page_id=117\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maria del Carmen Montoya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysbearound.holycross.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}