In the context of Pablo Delano’s exhibition “cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters: assemblage and sculpture by pablo delano,” curated by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Aurora Santiago Ortiz at the Chazen Museum of Art, Amanda J. Guzmán will deliver the lecture “Collected Puerto Rico: Re-assembling Object Itineraries in Museum and Art Contexts” at the Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium, on September 18, 2025, at 5:30pm.
This talk will explore the potential of taking up Puerto Rican museum collections and contemporary art as objects of analysis, sites of memory, and models of practice.
Delano’s “cuestiones caribeñas” is on view until December 14, 2025. The Chazen Museum of Art is located at 750 University Avenue, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Amanda J. Guzmán is an assistant professor in anthropology and the co-director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She specializes in museum anthropology focusing on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico.
Guzmán was a member of the 2024–2025 inaugural cohort of Rooted + Relational research initiative around the theme of “Archives, Memory, & the Present Past of Puerto Rico” at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. In 2025, she began research as a Co-PI on a three-year Higher Learning Grant in environmental justice studies from the Mellon Foundation.
Her research has been supported by the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of Natural History. Guzmán serves as a board member on the Council for Museum Anthropology and the vice chair of the Board of Trustees of the Stowe Center for Literary Activism.
For more information, see https://chazen.wisc.edu/events/amanda-j-guzman-talk-collected-puerto-rico-re-assembling-object-itineraries-in-museum-and-art-contexts/
In the context of Pablo Delano’s exhibition “cuestiones caribeñas/caribbean matters: assemblage and sculpture by pablo delano,” curated by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Aurora Santiago Ortiz at the Chazen Museum of Art, Amanda J. Guzmán will deliver the lecture “Collected Puerto Rico: Re-assembling Object Itineraries in Museum and Art Contexts” at the Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium, on
