Art and the Public Imagination: Artist Minerva Cuevas

Artist Minerva Cuevas and curator Brandee Caoba explore the power of art in public space. This dialogue will center on Cuevas’s newly commissioned mural at SITE SANTA FE—an expansive work that draws on histories of resistance, environmental justice, and visual culture in the Americas.

Together, Cuevas and Caoba will discuss the dissemination of knowledge through visual interventions, how public art can shift collective consciousness, and the ways artists contribute to civic dialogue. Reflecting on Cuevas’s practice of social and site-responsive work, the conversation will invite audiences to consider the mural not only as an artwork but as a catalyst for critical engagement and public memory.