A really beautiful reflection and accounting of Antena’s recent installation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles just came out on Medium, written by January Parkos Arnall, a curator of Public Engagement at the museum. In the piece, she reflects on Antena and Antena Los Ángeles’s work with the institution doing “one staff training [on language justice], two full-day programs with partner organizations around food labor justice and housing justice (paired with language justice), and two on-site installations: the Antena Móvil outside of our museum store and a lightbox artwork in the courtyard.”

Parkos Arnall is left with a number of questions at the end of her piece that resonate with Antena’s ongoing work” “How does the museum embrace and benefit from equity through language justice despite institutional barriers? How can the lack, the silent and the silenced, be recognized institutionally to enact a sense of urgency in welcoming and valuing these wide-ranging voices? Diversity of course is the hot topic of the day. But understanding how, left unquestioned, structural realities like monolingual space contribute to programmatic failures is essential to the mission of a cultural center: namely, holding space for our publics.”