Summer Series:
Las Nietas de Nonó and Erin Christovale

Aug 6, 2026 12:30PM-1:30PM

Schermer Meeting Hall

Community Engagement and Dialogue

The Summer Series program features some of the most influential artists of our time, exploring the work of world-renowned creators in conversation with today’s leading critics, curators, and collectors. Join us for a conversation in Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center with Aliza Nisenbaum and Jane Panetta.

Summer Series lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream. Registration is appreciated.

Las Nietas de Nonó is an artist duo formed by siblings Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó and Mapenzi Chibale Nonó. Their interdisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, video, and biomaterial sculpture, engaging with Caribbean collective memory and addressing issues such as dispossession, environmental injustice, and prison and medical-industrial systems.

They have presented major exhibitions such as Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN at Artists Space, New York, 2022, and participated in international biennials including the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). Their work has received numerous awards and is included in collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico.

In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, a community-based cultural space in their hometown of San Antón, Puerto Rico.

Erin Christovale is a Los Angeles–based film programmer and curator at the Hammer Museum. She is the cofounder of the international experimental film program Black Radical Imagination (2016), which has screened in spaces such as MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Exhibitions organized by Christovale include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, New York; Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman and A Subtle Likeness (both 2016) at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles; and S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she previously served as curator. During her time at the Hammer she has organized numerous exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Made in LA 2018 with Anne Ellegood, No Humans Involved (2021), and the retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation with Meg Onli and the critically acclaimed exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal. Her curatorial projects have been covered in Artforum, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and she has been profiled in publications including Time and Essence and featured on KCET and she was awarded the New Leadership Award by ArtTable in 2020, she completed the Curatorial Center for Leadership/Studio Museum in Harlem’s Forum from 2021-2023 and she is an advisor of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute.

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Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó, Mapenzi Chibale Nonó

Las Nietas de Nonó is an artist duo formed by siblings Mulowayi Iyaye Nonó and Mapenzi Chibale Nonó. Their interdisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, video, and biomaterial sculpture, engaging with Caribbean collective memory and addressing issues such as dispossession, environmental injustice, and prison and medical-industrial systems. They have presented major exhibitions such as Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN at Artists Space, New York, 2022, and participated in international biennials including the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). Their work has received numerous awards and is included in collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. In 2019, they co-founded Parceleras Afrocaribeñas, a community-based cultural space in their hometown of San Antón, Puerto Rico.

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Erin Christovale

Erin Christovale is a Los Angeles–based film programmer and curator at the Hammer Museum. She is the cofounder of the international experimental film program Black Radical Imagination (2016), which has screened in spaces such as MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Exhibitions organized by Christovale include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, New York; Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman and A Subtle Likeness (both 2016) at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles; and S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she previously served as curator. During her time at the Hammer she has organized numerous exhibitions, including the critically acclaimed Made in LA 2018 with Anne Ellegood, No Humans Involved (2021), and the retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation with Meg Onli and the critically acclaimed exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal. Her curatorial projects have been covered in Artforum, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and she has been profiled in publications including Time and Essence and featured on KCET and she was awarded the New Leadership Award by ArtTable in 2020, she completed the Curatorial Center for Leadership/Studio Museum in Harlem’s Forum from 2021-2023 and she is an advisor of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute.

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