Barbara Lucero de Godoy Contreras

Arizona State University, Tempe

Barbara Lucero de Godoy Contreras is originally from Northern New Mexico.  She has earned a Museum Studies Certificate from the graduate Anthropology program while completing her MFA program.  As a graduate administrator of the Northlight Gallery, Barbara oversees the care of a 4,000 photographic print collection and coordinates active exhibition schedule.  Her curatorial activity has focused on Latin American visual arts  She organized the Retratos Nuevo Mexicanos exhibition which featured the work of 15 New Mexican photographers.  This exhibition included work by Miguel Gandert and Delia Montoya.  Barbara also curated the first bilingual exhibition, Arte Latino en La Ciudad for Phoenix Visual arts Gallery.

During the summers Barbara teaches photography programs to inner city minority youth for Xicanindio Artes, Arizona’s oldest Hispanic arts organization.  She was previously assistant director of the organization.
Working on a long term collaboration with another Indo-Hispaña writer/artist, Barbara continues to document Aztec dance ceremonies in Mexico and the U.S.