1:00-2:30 p.m. Artist presentation and conversation with Jasmine Magaña
2:30-3:00 p.m. Tour with exhibition curators Elena Shtromberg and Zanna Gilbert

Artist Beatriz Cortez will discuss her work followed by a conversation with scholar Jasmine Magaña. Cortez will address questions of scale, crossing temporalities, and nomadism. The conversation will build on these themes to explore Cortez’s career-long investigation of the various ways messages, stories, and elemental particles move through, as well as bring together different spaces and times. In addition, the participants will discuss artistic exchange and other ways to confront past erasures and disappearances.

This program is presented in conjunction with Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s, on view at UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography through February 15, 2026.