CHRA Alumni Spotlight: Colombian Women’s Activism at Hemispheric Dialogue
Photo by Nour Annan
CHRA graduate Carol Montealegre (‘23) recently presented work at Decentralized Symposium: Redes as Resistance held on February 14, 2026. The symposium fosters hemispheric dialogues to promote and strengthen translocal networks interlaced by artistic research interests. It specifically connects artists, architects, researchers, curators, collective projects, and community initiatives rooted in Latin America and the Caribbean, including their global diasporas and Latine communities in the United States and Canada.
Montealegre's presentation was titled “Howls in the Mountains: That which seeps like water through the cracks of a decaying neoliberal system amid an imminent climate crisis.” It was part of the symposium panel titled "Defensas de lo comun," and was based on her thesis project for the MA Program in Human Rights & the Arts, which she graduated from in May 2023. Howls in the Mountains was originally developed as a multi-channel audio-visual installation based on research conducted in El Huila, Colombia with Asociación de Mujeres Huilenses Por La Paz (Asomhupaz). The association is comprised of women who are former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla group better known by its Spanish acronym FARC and which in November 2016 signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government. This project explores the political context of the so-called “post-conflict agenda” and attends to the therapeutic potential of ancestral medicine within the context of the reincorporation of these women into their broader communities.
Montealegre had also presented Howls in the Mountains at the Colombian National Salon of Art (Zona Sur/South Zone), held at Museo El Panóptico in November 2024.
Post Date: 03-23-2026
Montealegre's presentation was titled “Howls in the Mountains: That which seeps like water through the cracks of a decaying neoliberal system amid an imminent climate crisis.” It was part of the symposium panel titled "Defensas de lo comun," and was based on her thesis project for the MA Program in Human Rights & the Arts, which she graduated from in May 2023. Howls in the Mountains was originally developed as a multi-channel audio-visual installation based on research conducted in El Huila, Colombia with Asociación de Mujeres Huilenses Por La Paz (Asomhupaz). The association is comprised of women who are former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla group better known by its Spanish acronym FARC and which in November 2016 signed a peace agreement with the Colombian government. This project explores the political context of the so-called “post-conflict agenda” and attends to the therapeutic potential of ancestral medicine within the context of the reincorporation of these women into their broader communities.
Montealegre had also presented Howls in the Mountains at the Colombian National Salon of Art (Zona Sur/South Zone), held at Museo El Panóptico in November 2024.
Post Date: 03-23-2026
