UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1316

Research Tasks For the planned exhibition of a former five-member collective of Cuban artists and their individual practices moving forward, the research mentee would research and write a biography for each artist of no more than 150 well-crafted words. The period of investigation ranges from 1986 to 2026. The mentee would compose (1) a summary biography of the collective, and (2) a brief biography for each of the five artists. This would include both research into the artists’ activities abroad and in the U.S. The project aims to ground accompanying essays about the artists’ practices and the significance of the collective. The biographies, as will be the essays, will be presented in English and Spanish. The mentee would benefit from being bilingual in English and Spanish since much of the early writings about the collective will be in Spanish. However, we would work together on translation if the mentee does not already possess that skill. Collecting the data is possible even for non-Spanish language speakers and writers. What is essential is that the mentee has an interest in learning about Cuban art and the desire to create impactful introductions to the collective and the artists’ inclusion in the exhibition. The biographies will be original, and the translations will be done without the use of machine translation, like Google Translate or DeepL. The mentor will support (assist with) this phase of the work, as well as give direction for research.