Pictured from left to right: Scott Jones (Barnett Center Director), Michelle Wibbelsman (Associate Professor Spanish and Portuguese), Francesca Napoli (Spanish major), Cameron Logar (BioChemistry major/Spanish minor), Leonardo Carrizo (Lecturer in Communications and residency photojournalist), Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Latin American librarian), Tamryn McDermott (graduate student in AAEP). Bottom row left to right: Anais Fernandez Castro (Spanish and Political Sciences major), Amanda Tobin-Ripley (graduate student in AAEP).
On September 9, 2022, the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies, hosted a reception in the Barnett Collaboratory for Dancing with Devils, an exhibit of Latin American festival masks from the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection at The Ohio State University, along with documentary photographs of the Diablada de Píllaro (Devils Dance of Píllaro, Ecuador) taken by Ohio State photojournalist Leonardo Carrizo. Masks on display were donated by Ohio State alumnus Mark Gordon and crafted by Italo Espín. Residency recipient mask maker Espín and dancer/ethnographer Fernado Endara gave interactive workshops and performances in the space, made possible with Barnett and Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) funds. The exhibit was accessible in the 2022 autumn semester, and several AAEP students utilized the Barnett Collaboratory as a teaching space to integrate this exhibit with AAEP course content in novel ways (see Tamryn McDermott, p. 10).
