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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Carla Stellweg papers
source:
Stellweg, Carla
Identifier/Call Number: M1752
Physical Description:
60 Linear Feet
(122 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1935-2015
Date (bulk): 1965-2015
Abstract: The Carla Stellweg papers document Stellweg's curatorial work, writing, and other professional activities. Materials include
exhibition catalogs, correspondence, publications, photographic materials, and administrative records.
Physical Location: Special Collections materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections,
see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html.
Language of Material: The material is primarily in English and Spanish. Other languages include French, Finnish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Italian,
German, Japanese, Swedish, Dutch and Arabic.
The collection is arranged in ten series:
Series 1. Artists
Series 2. Gallery Shows, Curatorial Work and Other Professional Activities
Series 3. Frida Kahlo Exhibits
Series 4. Articles, Reviews, and Other Writing
Series 5. Publications
Series 6. Personal and Biographical Information
Series 7. Photographic Materials
Series 8. Audiovisual Materials
Series 9. Financial Records (Restricted)
Series 10. Accession 2015-145. Additional Materials
Carla Stellweg papers, M1752. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in 2010 and 2015. Accessions 2010-095 and 2015-145.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Carla Stellweg papers document Stellweg's curatorial work, writing, and other professional activities. Materials include
exhibition catalogs, correspondence, publications, photographic materials, audiovisual materials and administrative records.
Accession 2015-145 includes photographs, slides, papers, journals, cassettes, and one hard drive.
Carla Stellweg is a curator, art historian, and writer who specializes in the promotion of Latin American art and artists.
Born in Bandung, Indonesia, she moved to Mexico with her family in the late 1950s, where she lived and worked for twenty-five
years. Stellweg received a Bachelor of Arts from Grotius College and was a Master of Fine Arts Candidate in art history at
the University of the Americas, Mexico.
Stellweg held a variety of curatorial and management positions throughout her career. She was the founder and editor of
Artes Visuales, which was the first Spanish and English contemporary visual arts magazine published in Latin America. In 1979, Stellweg
became the deputy director of the newly built Rufino Tamayo Museum. From 1983-1985, Stellweg was the director of the Stellweg-Seguy
Gallery, managing exhibitions and sales. She became the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA) in
1986, where she worked on exhibits such as
Rooted Visions: Mexican Art Today. In 1989, she became the owner and director of her own gallery in New York City. The Carla Stellweg Gallery's mission was
to promote emerging and mid-career artists, as well as to provide a gallery space for diverse exhibitions. Stellweg also worked
as the executive director of Blue Star Art Space and as the director of program funding for the Jewish Museum, where she was
in charge of an annual campaign to raise more than 3 million dollars. In 2005, Stellweg became an art history professor at
the School of Visual Arts. In addition to these positions, Stellweg worked as an independent consultant on various projects,
including
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors and
The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the US, 1920-1970. Stellweg was a co-author of
The Camera Seduced: Portraits of Frida Kahlo, a book which arose out of her work on an exhibition of the same name. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities,
with the research topic "Exhibiting Practices of Mexican and Chicano Art: Its Funding and Collecting."
Open for research except for Series 9 (restricted financial records). Audio-visual materials are not available in original
format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Art, Latin American.
Eleta, Sandra
Colo
Chong, Albert
Montes, Roberto Gil de
Rippey, Carla
Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz
Garaicoa, Carlos
Elizondo, Arturo
Venegas, Germán
Vater, Regina
Tamayo, Ruffino
Vargas, Eugenia
Suter, Gerardo
Camnitzer, Luis
Milton, Avery
Amado, Jesse
Kahlo, Frida
Stellweg, Carla
Carlos Capelán
Carla Stellweg Latin American & Contemporary Art (Gallery : New York, N.Y.)
Peláez, Paloma
Parcero, Tatiana
Palacios, Jaime
Ortiz, Raphael Montanez.
Mendieta, Ana
Lozano, José
Lara, Magali
Lamelas, David
Labin, Clemencia
Jiménez, Cisco
Henning, Anton