Penn Museum November 15 & 16, 2025
Keynote Speaker- Kukuli Velarde
Saturday 5:30pm, Rainey Auditorium
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist based in Philadelphia. Her work, which revolves around the consequences of colonization in Latin American contemporary culture, is a visual investigation about aesthetics, cultural survival, and inheritance.
Kukuli borrows from pre-Columbian ceramic and textile traditions to create clay figures and paintings that confront topics such as gender, identity, and socio-political concerns.
Born and raised in Cusco, Kukuli attended the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, and finished her BFA at Hunter College in New York. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Berman Museum of Art, the Brad Cushman Gallery, and the Russell Hills Rogers Galleries. She has received awards and grants including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), the Virginia Groot Grant (2023), and the grand prize at the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in South Korea (2013).
About NCAAAE
Founded in 1982 at Cornell University by Dan Sandweiss, the NCAAE was intended to provide a more accessible venue for sharing current research and works-in-progress, at a time when Andeanist meetings were located mainly on the West Coast and Midwest. Since then, the NCAAE has grown into a vibrant intellectual community encompassing multiple research institutions and independent scholars in the Northeast, and beyond. The NCAAE is organized on an ad-hoc and volunteer basis, with the responsibility of hosting the conference rotating among different institutions, and typically decided 1-2 years in advance at our Business Meeting which occurs during the conference. The intimate scale of the conference provides ample opportunity for building professional connections and makes for a welcoming environment for junior scholars and graduate students to present and receive feedback on their work.
More information on the history of the NCAAE, including a publication by Richard E. Daggett and a chronological listing of papers curated by Daggett and Monica Barnes, can be found in the archives of Andean Past.
William C. Farabee with colleagues on the Inka site of Paredones, high above the Nasca Valley.
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