Quinceañeras: Celebration, Joy, & Ethnic Pride! is a Spurlock Museum Exhibition, opening Fall 2022! Brought to you by The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in association with the Department of Latina/o/x Studies.

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Quinceañeras are typically a coming-of-age practice for girls turning fifteen in much of US Latina/o/x and Latin American cultures. The exhibition seeks to document and chart quinceañera representations and performances of gender through an archive of saved artifacts. We aim to showcase quinceañeras of different genders, sexualities, ethnicities, and financial statuses in order to explore the relevance of the event in contemporary conceptions of girlhood, especially in the U.S. Latinx context.