Tour of "Hyphen American" for Spanish Speakers with Dr. Isabel Velázquez


Tour of "Hyphen American" for Spanish Speakers with Dr. Isabel Velázquez
Date/Time
Registration Begins
1/1/2026
Last Day To Register
2/14/2026 1:00 PM
Location
451 N 12th Street
Lincoln, NE 68588, US
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Visita guiada a la exposición Americanos Entrelazados (Hyphen American) para hispanohablantes con la Dra. Isabel Velázquez

Únase a la Dra. Isabel Velázquez para un visita guiada en español a la exposición en español Americanos Entrelazados (Hyphen American): Intersecciones de Identidad. Las visitas guiadas en el Sheldon son una excelente manera de aprender más sobre el arte y los artistas a través de una experiencia interactiva.

Las visitas guiadas en el Sheldon son gratuitas y están abiertas al público, pero se recomienda encarecidamente registrarse con anticipación, ya que el cupo es limitado.


Join Dr. Isabel Velázquez for a Spanish language tour of the exhibition Hyphen American: Intersections of Identity. Tours at Sheldon are a great way to learn more about the art and artists at Sheldon through an interactive experience.  

 

Tours at Sheldon are free and open to the public, but advanced registration is strongly encouraged as space is limited.  

 

About Dr. Isabel Velázquez 

Isabel Velázquez, is Harold E. Spencer Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures. Her area of research includes sociolinguistic variation, Hispanic linguistics, bilingualism and language acquisition, heritage speaker pedagogy, language contact on the U.S./Mexico border, and the role of language in identity formations of US Latin@s. Her current research focuses on linguistic maintenance and loss among Latinx families in the Midwest. Dr. Velázquez holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Dr. Velázquez is the director of Cartas a la Familia/Family Letters. On the Migration from Jesusita to Jane a digital archive that preserves, digitizes, analyzes and makes public a collection of the correspondence and other personal documents of a Mexican American family that migrated from the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, to the states of Colorado and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century. 

 

Please note that meter parking on 12th and R is currently unavailable due to construction. The Que Place Garage and the Larson Building Garage remain available for parking for a fee. 

 

Click this link for written directions of how to get to our Sheldon Museum parking lot. 

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