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1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables, Florida 33146
Book Presentation
and Conversation
FEATURING
Rosa Lowinger
Author, Cuban-born American art conservator and founder of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture LLC
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Ana Menéndez
Associate Professor, Department of English and the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, Florida International University
Described as a "masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair" in a starred review by Kirkus magazine, "Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair" is an illuminating debut by one of the few prominent Latinas in the field of art and architectural conservation. The memoir is a moving portrait of a Cuban Jewish family's intergenerational trauma and a story about repair and healing. An immigrant's story seen through an entirely new lens, "Dwell Time" connects the material to the personal and helps us see what is possible when one opens one's heart to another person's wounds.
The term "dwell time" is a measurement of the amount of time something takes to happen―immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and, in art conservation, the time it takes for a chemical to react with a material.
Join us in person for a presentation by the book's author, Rosa Lowinger, in conversation with Ana Menéndez, followed by an audience question and answer session. Copies of the book will be available for sale on-site through Books & Books.
This event is co-sponsored by the AMIGOS of the Cuban Heritage Collection and Books & Books.
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