Instagram to Installations: Latina in Museums with Karen Vidangos

Wine: 33 North, Cabernet Sauvignon BIO: Karen Vidangos is the founder of Latinx Art Collective, the first nationwide database exclusively for Latinx artists in the United States, and Social Media Manager for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Known online as “Latina in Museums,” Vidangos uses the digital space to explore and elevate underrepresented perspectives in the arts. As a social media specialist, Vidangos has created engaging strategies to support the Obama Portraits Tour and the 2019 American Portrait Gala for the National Portrait Gallery, and was selected to lead the social media strategy and launch of the Smithsonian’s institution-wide initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past. Previous to this, Vidangos led the strategy and launch of Glenstone Museum’s social media presence timed with their expansion reopening in 2021. Vidangos has a B.A. in Art History from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Museum Studies from George Washington University. Instagram