Though Liliana Gómez and I began our tenure as coeditors-in-chief in January 2024, this editorial note offers our first opportunity to publicly acknowledge and celebrate the leadership and vision of Charlene Villaseñor Black, the founding editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Along with members of the Association of Latin American Art, Villaseñor Black recognized a gap in our field—a journal that could host transhistorical, international, and interdisciplinary scholarly conversations on the study of the visual culture of the Americas and its diasporas.1 She worked and collaborated with the University of California Press, in particular its journals publisher, David Famiano, to create a shared space for contemporary scholars to debate and exchange ideas. As a result, she expanded and deepened our community and its visibility to each other and the larger discipline of art history and visual studies. Her unique vision for the journal has provided a...
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