Marion Oettinger Jr. was the curator of Latin American Art and the former Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art. A cultural anthropologist and art historian specializing in Latin American art and culture, he has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. He has taught at Cornell University, Occidental College, and the University of North Carolina and is the recipient of Fulbright Hays, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, National Geographic Society, and American Philosophical Society grants and the 2010 Van Deren Coke Lifetime Achievement Award in Spanish Colonial Art and Folk Art. Oettinger’s recent books are Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits and Pasiόn Popular: Spanish and Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection. He was the project director of the San Antonio 1718 exhibition.
Jaime Cuadriello is an art historian at the Institute of Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His recent books are Art and Belief in the Spanish World and The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala: Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico.
Cristina Cruz González is an associate professor of art history at Oklahoma State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Yale University, a master’s degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Museum Fellowship, a Getty Research Fellowship, a Newberry Consortium Faculty Fellowship, and other awards, and she was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2014. González has published articles on Franciscan art and other subjects and has a forthcoming book on the Franciscan art of northern New Spain.
Ray Hernández-Durán is an associate professor of Ibero-American colonial art and architecture at the University of New Mexico. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in art history from the University of Chicago, and he is the recipient of two Fulbright Hayes Fellowships and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the author of numerous articles on the art of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico and The Academy of San Carlos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico, ca. 1855–1934.
Katherine C. Luber was the the Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art from 2011-2019. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Texas, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Between 2005 and 2011, she served as president and CEO of the Seasoned Palate. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a doctorate from Bryn Mawr College, and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a 1988 Fulbright Hayes Fellowship in Vienna, Austria. Luber has published and lectured widely on art of the Northern Renaissance.
Gerald E. Poyo is the O’Connor Chair in the History of Hispanic Texas and the Southwest at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. From 1992 to 1996 he was the O’Connor Chair in the Study of Spanish Colonial Texas and the Southwest. He received his doctorate from the University of Florida. His recent books are Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980 and Exile and Revolution.
