{"id":30243,"date":"2019-02-20T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=30243"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:20:52","slug":"nalac-awards-artist-grant-to-ernesto-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/nalac-awards-artist-grant-to-ernesto-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"NALAC awards artist grant to Ernesto Mart\u00ednez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 20, 2019\u2014<\/strong>Ernesto Javier Mart\u00ednez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Mart\u00ednez is also a member of the Center for the Study of Women in Society\u2019s Advisory Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mart\u00ednez<\/a> is one of 43 grantees from among 400 applicants to be selected for the 13th cycle of the NALAC Fund for the Arts grant program. According to the grant program manager, \u201cThese 43 recipients are recognized for their artistic excellence in pursuit of social justice through the arts and were selected from a pool of over 400 applications by a national peer panel process involving 45 arts experts representing diverse disciplines, regions and ethnicities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When We Love Someone We Sing To Them
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Mart\u00ednez received the grant \u201cto support the continuation of the Femeni\u00f1os<\/a> project, a children\u2019s book and short film series highlighting the experiences of queer Latino\/x boys and the families who bear witness to their lives. This project began in 2017 as a collaboration with the San Francisco-based children\u2019s book author Maya Christina Gonz\u00e1lez and has expanded to work with the Los Angeles-based independent film director Adelina Anthony and Oregon-based Hollywood film director Omar Naim. Through the Femeni\u00f1os project, the artist aims to empower queer Latinx youth through stories that capture their imaginations, embody their cultural roots and represent queer lives in a positive light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ernesto Mart\u00ednez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

CSWS is one of several UO units that have provided grant support to Professor Mart\u00ednez for his work on this project. In 2018, Mart\u00ednez published the children\u2019s book When We Love Someone We Sing to Them,<\/em> which reframes a cultural tradition to include LGBTQ experience. La Serenata <\/em>is a film adaption of the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBoth the screenplay and the book,\u201d Mart\u00ednez said, \u201ctell the story of a Mexican-American boy who learns from his parents about serenatas and why demonstrating romantic affection proudly, publicly, and through song is such a treasured Mexican tradition. One day, the boy asks his parents if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy. The parents, surprised by the question and unsure of how to answer, must decide how to honor their son and how to reimagine a beloved tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 20, 2019\u2014Ernesto Javier Mart\u00ednez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Mart\u00ednez is also a member of the…<\/p>\n

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