Post-Graduate Work
Following completion of her PhD in 1976, Dr. Salvador taught at Universidade dos Açores (University of the Azores) in Portugal while on a Fulbright scholarship to study festas, which are native religious celebrations. She continued this research more locally, in southern California, among Portuguese-American communities for several years, focusing on the aesthetics of ritual performance and the ways in which art is used in ritual. She has also worked with contemporary Hispanic artists in New Mexico to study and exhibit religious imagery known as santos, attempting to understand the importance of the creative process among these artists in both aesthetic and devotional contexts.
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