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I will have work in this Exhibition. This is exciting for me considering that my family first moved to Waterbury. They then moved to Bristol were they were only one of two Puerto Rican Families in the 1950's. My grandmother, Carmen Marrero has very strong memories of the days in Waterbury. Those were difficult times.
MERGING CULTURES:
Latin American and Caribbean Art & Life in Connecticut
April 10 – August 10, 2008
The Mattatuck Museum will be presenting an exhibition and a series of public programs in the spring of 2008 that will explore how immigration affected the lives of Hispanic newcomers to the greater Waterbury region and how they viewed their assimilation into the community. The focus on ethnic heritage provides the themes of the project: Coming to Connecticut, Building Community, Social and Political Activism.
Merging Cultures is a narrative told by oral history, video, photography, text, paintings and installation sculpture and memorabilia. The exhibition is organized by independent curator, Ben Ortiz. The project will benefit from the input of historian Dr. Ruth Glasser, who will serve as advisor for the project
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ON VIEW from January 19 - march 30, 2008. The reception was great, thanks, left to right...Xaviera Simmons & friend, Isaac Diggs & mom Diggs, Ariel Shanberg(Director) & me, and me with my family.
www.cpw.org
I donated two pieces to this exhibition. Thank you Lisa Kirkman.
Le invitamos a una exposicion a beneficio de The Dream project. www.dominicandream.org
www.motifartgallery.com
Sosua, POP, Republica Dominicana.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/680204.000_Drum_Major_Instinct.html
A great read, thank you Reverend MLK
photo, Farmington, CT in December
Annie Hooper has been awarded by the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts. What this means is she is a finalist along with 4 other photographers and 137 artists of all disiplines (theater, music,dance writing and the visual arts) all chosen from 7300 entrants around the country.
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My friend, Aisha Mohammed and I made a video piece to enter into a competition created by Apple. There was specific criteria given at 5:00 pm Friday the 10th, and the piece needed to be turned in on Saturday the 11th by 5:00 pm. I really liked the idea of working on a piece in such a short period of time. We approached the piece as two fifteen year old girls. Honestly, Aisha and I were depressed after we made the piece. Much of the text was picked up from what girls are writing on their facebook pages or what we have overheard girls saying in passing. It reveals teenagers at their worst, not their best. Thanks Aisha.
http://aishamo.googlepages.com/Insomnia_NEPrep.mov
Caribbean, Latin American & CT Artists and Their Impressions on Identity
I have work in this group show.
Guest Curator, Ben Ortiz.
City Lights Gallery
Oct13th - Nov 18th
Opening reception Friday the 13th, 5:30-8:00pm
37 Markle Court
Bridgeport, CT 06604
203.334.7748
http://www.citylightsgallery.org/show-identity.html
I felt as peaceful as I look in this b/w photo with my son Rio. Sol Angel Patino shot this beautiful image of us in Republica Dominicana in April 2006. gracias siempre
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