Upcoming Exhibition
"Infancia"
Oct. 3 to Dec. 10, 2025
Salve Regina University's Department of Art and Art History has engaged with the Newport-based nonprofit Fundación Magdalena to exhibit 42 silver gelatin prints by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
"Infancia" includes previously unpublished prints that explore childhood and rural life across various regions of the world. Thanks to the relationship between Iturbide and Fundación Magdalena, this will be the first exhibit ever of Iturbide's images of children.
The exhibition will feature a catalog by Barcelona-based publisher Editorial RM that brings together reproductions of the artworks with an essay by Colombian curator María Wills. The catalog will be available for purchase later this year directly from the Editorial RM website or from independent booksellers worldwide.
"Infancia" is part of a pilot project in which Salve and Fundación Magdalena will partner to create art events that spark inquiry and forge stronger community ties. Throughout the exhibit, Salve will run an after-school workshop one day each week, bringing together native English-speaking students and English language learner students from public schools in Rhode Island to explore how art can change the way we see each other and the world around us.
About Graciela Iturbide
Born in Mexico City in 1942, Graciela Iturbide uses photography as a way of understanding and exploring her culture. Her work, which focuses on everyday life and is almost entirely in black and white, has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), among others. She has been recognized with the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award, the Grand Prize Mois de la Photo, Paris, a Guggenheim fellowship, the International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan, the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in Mexico City, an honorary degree from Columbia College Chicago, an honorary Doctorate of Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and other honors.