MOUNT VERNON — Venezuelan potter Guillermo Cuellar will give a firsthand account of the uprising against President Hugo Chavez’s government in a talk, “Current Events in Venezuela,” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in Hedges Conference Room of The Commons at Cornell College.
Cuellar is a 1976 graduate of Cornell. He has a studio in Turgua, Venezuela, where he lives with his wife, Laurie MacGregor, a 1974 Cornell graduate, and their children, Travis and Alana. He is visiting Mount Vernon for the closing reception Feb. 9 of his monthlong exhibition at Cornell, “Guillermo Cuellar: Influences and Recent Work.”
Cuellar’s talk is sponsored by Cornell’s Latin American studies program.