Cecilia Cornejo receives Advancing Artist grant from Southeastern Minnesota Arts Board
Cornejo is lecturer in cinema and media studies at Carleton.
Cecilia Cornejo, lecturer in cinema and media studies, recently received an Advancing Artist grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Board (SEMAC). The grant supports Cornejo’s research and pre-production on The Way of Tenderness, an interdisciplinary project that takes an intimate look at immigration. Rooted in the artist’s personal archives, this new body of work explores connections between geographic dislocation, childhood memory, and the traces that historical trauma leaves on the body.