{"id":9304,"date":"2026-01-09T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:17:31","slug":"alejandra-perez-and-maceo-montoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/alejandra-perez-and-maceo-montoya","title":{"rendered":"Alejandra P\u00e9rez i Maceo Montoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3759-Alejandra-Perez-269x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3759-Alejandra-Perez-269x300.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3759-Alejandra-Perez-918x1024.jpeg 918w, https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3759-Alejandra-Perez-1378x1536.jpeg 1378w, https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3759-Alejandra-Perez-1837x2048.jpeg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alejandra P\u00e9rez t\u00e9 el \u2014discutiblement\u2014 mal costum de col\u00b7leccionar tot all\u00f2 que considera digne de ser elogiat i preservat: espelmes d\u2019aniversari consumides, plomes d\u2019ocells, fragments de converses escoltades de passada, folklore familiar idealitzat i altres restes quotidianes. A trav\u00e9s de mitjans com el gravat, el dibuix al carb\u00f3 i les miniatures escenificades, transforma aquests materials en relats visuals.<\/p>\n<p>Bessona, origin\u00e0ria d\u2019Arizona i Calif\u00f2rnia, i entusiasta dels xurros, reparteix el seu temps entre l\u2019ensenyament art\u00edstic a infants i la seva pr\u00e0ctica d\u2019estudi. En els darrers anys ha treballat com a Latinx Teaching Artist amb l\u2019organitzaci\u00f3 art\u00edstica sense \u00e0nim de lucre Root Division, col\u00b7labora amb el col\u00b7lectiu art\u00edstic Aguas Migrantes \u2014amb base a la Badia de San Francisco i Guanajuato\u2014 i t\u00e9 un m\u00e0ster en educaci\u00f3 art\u00edstica (MAT) per la Rhode Island School of Design.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandra P\u00e9rez est\u00e0 en resid\u00e8ncia a Can Serrat el novembre de 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maceo Montoya \u00e9s autor, artista visual i docent establert a Calif\u00f2rnia. Ha publicat llibres en diversos g\u00e8neres, entre els quals destaca la seva novel\u00b7la m\u00e9s recent, Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces (University of Nevada Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p>En l\u2019\u00e0mbit de les arts visuals, les seves pintures, dibuixos i gravats han estat presentats en exposicions i publicacions tant a nivell nacional com internacional. Ha col\u00b7laborat amb altres escriptors en projectes visuals i textuals, com Sancho\u2019s Journal de David Montejano (University of Texas Press, 2012), una etnografia sobre els Brown Berets a San Antonio, i Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth de Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, tradu\u00eft per Arturo Mantecon (Dialogos Books, 2018). L\u2019any 2021, Red Hen Press va publicar American Quasar, una col\u00b7laboraci\u00f3 amb el poeta David Campos que inclou 19 monogravats de Montoya.<\/p>\n<p>Va cr\u00e9ixer a Elmira, Calif\u00f2rnia, en una fam\u00edlia d\u2019artistes, entre els quals el seu pare, Malaquias Montoya, reconegut artista, activista i educador, i el seu germ\u00e0 difunt, el poeta Andr\u00e9s Montoya. Es va graduar a la Universitat de Yale el 2002 i va obtenir un MFA en Arts Visuals a la Universitat de Columbia el 2006. \u00c9s professor a la Universitat de Calif\u00f2rnia, Davis, al departament d\u2019Estudis Chicana\/o, on imparteix cursos sobre cultura i literatura chicanx, aix\u00ed com al programa de MFA en Escriptura Creativa del departament d\u2019Angl\u00e8s. Des de 2022 \u00e9s editor de la revista liter\u00e0ria Huizache.<\/p>\n<p>Maceo Montoya est\u00e0 en resid\u00e8ncia a Can Serrat el novembre de 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alejandra P\u00e9rez t\u00e9 el \u2014discutiblement\u2014 mal costum de col\u00b7leccionar tot all\u00f2 que considera digne de ser elogiat i preservat: espelmes d\u2019aniversari consumides, plomes d\u2019ocells, fragments de converses escoltades de passada, folklore familiar idealitzat i altres restes quotidianes. A trav\u00e9s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/alejandra-perez-and-maceo-montoya\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}