Folded Voices / Voces plegadas

Discover the connections between contemporary activism and Mesoamerican screenfold codices. Folded Voices / Voces plegadas situates Latin American and diasporic accordion-form books within a long lineage of material memory keeping. Curators Denise Massa and Payton Phillips Quintanilla frame these formats as living structures shaped by collective authorship and exchange, while featured printmaker Paloma Núñez-Regueiro and poet-performer Quique Avilés engage participants through hands-on workshops and dialogue. Presented by the Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections at Notre Dame, Folded Voices / Voces plegadas invites campus and community audiences to explore the past, interpret the present, and imagine the future through the folded page.

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Credits

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro is a Mexican printmaker, installation artist, and art activist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She discovered printmaking at the Facultad de Artes Plásticas in Xalapa, Veracruz. She earned her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her artistic journey continued through moves to Argentina and Mexico, where she drew inspiration from various Latin American artists. Núñez-Regueiro's work reflects her migration experiences, otherness, and identity as a woman of color. Her works and artist’s books are held in prestigious museums and research libraries across the country including Detroit Institute of Art, Flint Institute of Arts, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, and University of Texas at El Paso.

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro

Quique Avilés

Quique Avilés is an acclaimed poet, performer, filmmaker, and activist who has spent four decades addressing social injustices and racial inequalities in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. Originally from El Salvador, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts graduate founded the LatiNegro Theater Collective, an ensemble of African American and Latino artists, and co-founded the influential arts-activism organization Sol & Soul, serving as its artistic director. His raw and poignant poetry on experiences of immigration has been featured in NPR’s Latino USA and published in his award-winning art and poetry book, The Immigrant Museum (2004).

Quique Avilés

Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections

Rare Books and Special Collections in the Hesburgh Libraries at Notre Dame collects, preserves, promotes, and provides access to rare and unique materials in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. Curators in the areas of Irish Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, American History and Americana, Catholic Studies, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Sports Research, and Russian and East European Studies steward deep collections of distinction and connect them to students, scholars, and the public through teaching, exhibitions, publications, and programming.

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Funding & Support

This is a partner program of the 2027 Notre Dame Arts Biennial, supported with funding from the Notre Dame Arts Initiative.

This project is also made possible with funding from Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections. Workshop venues and staffing support provided by La Casa de Amistad and Notre Dame’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design.