Project Description
Artist Profile
Jillian Hernandez
Dr. Jillian Hernandez is a community arts educator, curator, and Associate Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida. Her book, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, published by Duke University Press, examines how Black and Latinx working-class bodies, sexualities, and cultural practices are policed through gendered tropes of deviancy and respectability and how women and girls of color claim autonomy through creative authorship. Aesthetics of Excess was inspired by and closely follows her work in Miami Florida as founder of Women on the Rise!, an insurgent collective of women of color artists who engaged Black and Latina girls, some incarcerated at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, in feminist art practices and critical dialogues around race, sexuality, gender, and society.
Artist Profile
Jillian Hernandez
Dr. Jillian Hernandez is a community arts educator, curator, and Associate Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida. Her book, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, published by Duke University Press, examines how Black and Latinx working-class bodies, sexualities, and cultural practices are policed through gendered tropes of deviancy and respectability and how women and girls of color claim autonomy through creative authorship. Aesthetics of Excess was inspired by and closely follows her work in Miami Florida as founder of Women on the Rise!, an insurgent collective of women of color artists who engaged Black and Latina girls, some incarcerated at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center, in feminist art practices and critical dialogues around race, sexuality, gender, and society.