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Title: Carla Stellweg papers
Identifier/Call Number: M1752
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
64.9 Linear feet
(98 half-cartons, 5 flat boxes, 1 carton)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2009
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.
The collection is arranged in nine 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)
Carla Stellweg papers, M1752. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in 2010. Accession 2010-095.
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, and administrative records.
Carla Stellweg was a curator, art historian, and writer who specialized 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 because 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
Amado, Jesse, 1951-
Camnitzer, Luis, 1937-
Carla Stellweg Latin American & Contemporary Art (Gallery : New York, N.Y.) .
Carlos Capelán, 1948-
Chong, Albert
Colo, 1946-
Eleta, Sandra
Elizondo, Arturo, 1956-
Garaicoa, Carlos
Henning, Anton, 1964-
Jiménez, Cisco, 1969-
Kahlo, Frida
Labin, Clemencia
Lamelas, David, 1946-
Lara, Magali, 1956-
Lozano, José, 1957-
Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985
Milton, Avery
Montes, Roberto Gil de
Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz
Ortiz, Raphael Montanez.
Palacios, Jaime, 1963-
Parcero, Tatiana
Peláez, Paloma, 1958-
Rippey, Carla, 1950-
Stellweg, Carla
Suter, Gerardo
Tamayo, Ruffino, 1899-1991
Vargas, Eugenia, 1949-
Vater, Regina
Venegas, Germán
Art, Latin American.
Art, Modern--20th century.