The CPPC Travel Award will support a curator to visit either one or multiple locations in Central Am

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About the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) works to increase discount travel packages understanding and awareness of Latin America s contributions to the history of art and ideas, and to support innovation, education, creativity, discount travel packages and research in the field of Latin American art. Through grants and partnerships, the CPPC also supports the professional development of Latin American artists, curators, and scholars. Recent initiatives include, among others, a sponsorship to create a Curatorial Fellowship at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany; a partnership with Hunter College (New York) to create the Patricia discount travel packages Phelps de Cisneros Professor discount travel packages of Latin American Art; and an alliance with the Bard Graduate Center (New York) to organize discount travel packages the Cisneros Seminar in the Material Cultures of the Ibero-American World.
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