Welcome back for the third installation of Afros & Ceramic Fruit. This week we talk with curator and arts administrator Marcela Andrade about what it means to be Latina, and female in the art world.

Using Marcela's own narrative as a springboard, we talk about her exhibition Interlacing Threads: Traditional Techniques | Contemporary Perspectives currently on view through March 7, 2014 at Columbia College Chicago's Hokin Gallery. Through traditional weaving techniques the artists works presented in Interlacing Threads have found a way to incorporate them into their practices. This has created contemporary forums in Chicago and elsewhere for dialogue that connects audiences to the artists' own heritage or found inspiration in that of another culture.