Cultural Activity 1 – Repeat Over the weekend, I was able to visit the Denver Art Museum and see a collection called Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place. The collection included pieces by 13 Latino artists where each artist sought to portray their individual experiences in the American West through their art. The collection contained many different art forms and represented a range of experiences lived by the artists, from themes of work and memory to displacement and visibility, but all relating to how the Western United States is a melting pot of cultures. plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay My visit to the Denver Art Museum and exposure to the Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place collection are tied to Latina/o cultures in many ways . Each work of art in the collection represented a unique experience that only the Latino artist who created it had. Some experiences were more positive, while others seemed more negative, and some showed a good mix of both. The piece that seemed most interesting to me was Songs of the Horizon by Claudio Dicochea. His work was a collection of paintings that links American pop culture with Latin culture to show the intertwining of the two to become one. This experience taught me a lot about some of the differences and similarities between Latino and American cultures. I could see how cultures have somehow blended together over time while maintaining some of their own distinct characteristics. I also learned about some of the more negative experiences Latinos have due to stereotypes and generalizations. As a not-so-educated person, this made me appreciate the strength and ability to find humor in the ignorance of others that people of Latin culture have. I also gained an appreciation for the different types of art used to portray the experiences of each of the Latino artists included in the collection. Works CitedAncona, R. (2018). Latino/a artistic activism: Engaging culture and change. University of Texas Press. Ayala, K.J., & Medina, C. (Eds.). (2017). Latino art and culture in the United States: The Mexican-American experience. ABC-CLIO.Debro, A.S. (2019). Artistic diversity in contemporary Latino/a art: Exhibiting cultures and identities. University of Arizona Press.Delgado, M. C. (2017). Latino Art in the United States: Beyond Stereotypes. Smithsonian American Art Museum.Espino, C. M. (2016). Latin Art Collection: Chicano, Mayan, Aztec and Mexican tattoo inspired styles. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.Flores, L.E. (2014). Mexican-American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968. Duke University Press. Galindo, M. (2018). Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community. Arizona State University Museum of Art. Galvez, M. C. (2014). A fellow Latina/o student. Wiley-Blackwell.Ochoa, S.R. (2014). Andean expressions: art and archeology of the Recuay culture. University of Iowa Press. Paredes, A., & Cantu, R. (2018). Latin literature in the classroom: Twenty-first century approaches to teaching. Routledge.