Spanish language tour of 'Hyphen American'
Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 2:00PM Sheldon Museum of Art
Join Isabel Velazquez for a Spanish language tour of the exhibition "Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity" at Sheldon Museum of Art. Tours at Sheldon are free and open to the public, but advanced registration is strongly encouraged as space is limited. Please register at https://go.unl.edu/spanish-tour.
About Isabel Velazquez
Isabel Velazquez is the Harold E. Spencer Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures. Her area of research includes sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the US/Mexico border, and the role of language in identity formations of USLatin@s. Her current research focuses on linguistic maintenance and loss among Latinx families in the Midwest. Professor Velazquez holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Velazquez is the director of Cartas a la Familia/Family Letters. On the Migration from Jesusita to Jane a digital archive that preserves, digitizes, analyzes and makes public a collection of the correspondence and other personal documents of a Mexican American family that migrated from the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to the states of Colorado and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century.
About "Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity"
How does an artist's work reflect the American experience? And in what ways does "Americanness" reveal itself through art in the presence of heterogeneous "American" identities? As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the exhibition explores these questions by showcasing how identity is presented and interrogated in visual art.
About Isabel Velazquez
Isabel Velazquez is the Harold E. Spencer Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures. Her area of research includes sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the US/Mexico border, and the role of language in identity formations of USLatin@s. Her current research focuses on linguistic maintenance and loss among Latinx families in the Midwest. Professor Velazquez holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Velazquez is the director of Cartas a la Familia/Family Letters. On the Migration from Jesusita to Jane a digital archive that preserves, digitizes, analyzes and makes public a collection of the correspondence and other personal documents of a Mexican American family that migrated from the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to the states of Colorado and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century.
About "Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity"
How does an artist's work reflect the American experience? And in what ways does "Americanness" reveal itself through art in the presence of heterogeneous "American" identities? As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the exhibition explores these questions by showcasing how identity is presented and interrogated in visual art.