El altar de mi bisabuelo/My Great Grandfather’s Altar
- El altar de mi bisabuelo/My Great Grandfather’s Altar
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Muriel Hasbun, El altar de mi bisabuelo/My Great Grandfather’s Altar, from the series Santos y sombras/Saints and Shadows, 1997, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Moore © 1997, Muriel Hasbun. Reproduced courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, from “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art.”
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Muriel Hasbun’s expertise as an artist and as an educator focuses on issues of cultural identity and memory. She is the founder of laberinto projects, a transnational, cultural memory initiative that fosters contemporary art practices, social inclusion, and dialogue in El Salvador and its diaspora, through exhibitions, art education, artist residencies, and community engagement. She received an MFA in Photography (1989) from George Washington University, where she studied with Ray K. Metzker, and an AB in French Literature (1983), cum laude, from Georgetown University. Most recently, Muriel was Professor and Program Head of Photography at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at GWU.
