Wednesday Walkthrough: Alma Solarte-tobon

Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our current exhibition. 

This season, we are presenting the first major exhibition of artist Daniel Lind- Ramos (b. 1953, Puerto Rico) in a European institution, showcasing five of the artists’ monumental sculptural assemblages, including a newly commissioned work. The totemic sculptures incorporate objects found washed up on beaches and mangroves local to his hometown of Loíza, or gifted from friends, family and community members.

In this walkthrough, Alma Solarte-Tobon will explore the social and cultural value of trees in relation to Daniel Lind-Ramos' explorations of the importance of mangroves in Puerto Rican culture. Solarte-Tobon will guide us through a tour of the galleries, exploring the ways in which storytelling is fundamental to human experience and understanding, forming the basis for various qualitative methodologies like ethnography, narrative inquiry, and other analysis enquiries. Together we will explore how ‘tree stories' enable us to understand the value of trees.

Alma Solarte-Tobon is based in Nottingham, UK. She is a Research Associate and Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University’s Storytelling Academy. The current research she is conducting is for the Branching Out project which uses bio physical data and storytelling to highlight the social and cultural value of trees. Her PhD research focuses on storytelling and emotional literacy, in relation to the East Midlands’ Latin American diaspora. In addition to her research work, she has over 20 years’ experience in community arts as a Creative Producer for City Arts in Nottingham, delivering local and international projects in many art forms. She is also the Creative Director for the Nottingham Poetry Festival, an annual celebration of poetry in the city.

Access:

This event will be held in the Galleries. Meet at Reception.

Speakers will use microphones.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions around access or have specific access requirements we can accommodate, please get in touch with us by emailing info@nottinghamcontemporary.org or phoning 0115 948 9750.