A CUBAN-AMERICAN MANUEL PARDO ART EXHIBIT AT THE EMERSON

Pictured to the right Exhibit Card.

This past Saturday my wife and I had the pleasure of attending the Manuel Pardo art exhibit at the Emerson in Mt Tremper New York. I enjoyed all the paintings and drawings on view. Manuel Pardo passed away a few months ago. He was an excellent artist and his art is full of life & Joy. I have admired his work for many years and was glad to see so many works in one place. The Exhibit will be up from May 4 to September 3, 2013 this is a must see exhibit if you are in the area.

More info at: http://www.emersonresort.com/events-and-hapenings/manuel-pardo-exhibit

Cuban Cultural Center Mega Art Auction in NYC

May 3, 2013 6 PM

Spanish Benevolent Society
239 W 14th Street
NYC

Pictured to the right Wave Flower painting by Jose Acosta

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Jose Acosta, Susan Bank, Jose Bedia, Guido Betancourt, Humberto Calzada, Chari Castro-Marin, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Enrique Cubillas, Liliam Cuenca, Aurora De Armendi, Pablo Diaz, Ofill Echevarria, Felix Esquivel, Pedro Esteban, Galindo Landeira, Florencio Gelabert, Frank Guiller, Gisela Hernandez, Eliana Iturbe, Juan Lopetegui, Luis Mallo, David Martinez, Mysora, Jay Palacio, Manuel Pardo, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Rene Portocarrero,
Rolando Pulido, Jesus Rivera, Gilberto Ruiz, Baruj Salinas, Mario Torroella, Gladys Triana, Raul Villareal

Mojitos at a unique art auction, featuring works by some of the most sought-after Cuban and Cuban-American artists today, as well as outstanding new talent, many of whom will be present at the event!

Given the fundraising nature of the auction, these highly coveted works will be offered at a starting bid well below their value, an extraordinary opportunity for all serious collectors.

To encourage attendance of only interested parties, there is a pre-registration tax-deductible fee, applicable to any art purchase.

Given the limited space and the anticipated response to this event, we encourage everyone to register early.

SPANISH BENEVOLENT SOCIETY 239 West 14th Street, NYC

Admission fee:* $50 CCCNY Members: $30 *Counts toward art purchase
PLEASE NOTE: Since this is a catered event, with limited space, pre-registration is highly recommended to guarantee your attendance.

TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/365417

The Most Incredible Campus Art Collections from around the World.

To the right Staying Alive painting by Jose Acosta that is part of the University of Pennsylvania Art Collection.

Hi Jose

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Incredible Campus Art Collections Around the World, that we think is
tailor-made for your readers. Here is the link:
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If you agree, We hope that you will pass it on to your readers. Whatever you do, keep up the great work! We are big fans.

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South Street Seaport Museum will Exhibit Mario Sanchez Art.

On November 8, 2012, the South Street Seaport Museum in NYC will open a new exhibition called A Fisherman's Dream: Folk Art by Mario Sanchez, highlighting Sanchez's depictions of early 20th century Key West harbor, its watermen, and seafaring culture. The exhibition features 35 of Sanchez's brightly painted intaglios, a type of carving where wood is removed to form a bas-relief.

The exhibition is co-presented with the Key West Art & Historical Society and the American Folk Art Museum, whose exhibition Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions is also on view at the South Street Seaport Museum. The Seaport Museum sees A Fisherman's Dream as a fitting companion to Compass.

As a painter of memories Sanchez (1908-2005) recreated the Key West that he recalled from his youth in the years between World War I and the end of the Great Depression. His work captures the spirit of old Key West with humor and expressiveness, eidetic memory and whimsy through depictions of people and places of a seaport town that was accessible only by boat and where fish were sold to customers directly out of the ocean. Sanchez's work is sometimes fantastical with clouds that become birds or fish, and anthropomorphized cats that become characters in the everyday life of the town.

Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menchel Director of the Museum of the City of New York and President of the South Street Seaport Museum said: "The Seaport Museum is thrilled to be the first New York museum to devote an exhibition to the magnificent works of Mario Sanchez, who is one of the most important folk artists of the 20th century. We Are grateful to our partners at Key West Art & Historical Society and the American Folk Art Museum for helping us to bring this unprecedented exhibition to New Yorkers.

Many of the works in A Fisherman's Dream represent Key West fishermen and their business, an already vanishing way of life when Sanchez lovingly recreated it from memories of his youth. Among the pieces of fishermen at work is the masterful El Galano a tribute to Key West resident Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea; the works previous owners included Dina Merrill, Spencer Tracey, and Katharine Hepburn. Also on display will be relief carvings of iconic locations in Key West's fishing trade, such as Cleare's sponge auction and Demerrita's fish markets, as well as scenes of fishmongers selling the catch-of-the-day to local residents. Among these is Sanchez's humorous take on the trade, entitled Protein for the Hot Women. In addition to the business of the fishermen, the scenes capture the venues
where they congregated, such as the Fishermen's Cafe. Other
large-scale works depict the Key West harbor, including the train that once took passengers from New York to Key West. (Washed away in a hurricane in 1935, the train track was replaced by a highway that allowed access by car to the
island for the first time.)

A highlight of the exhibition will be a wall of Sanchez's marvelously expressive fish carvings, depicting the species that were caught by Key West fishermen during the first half of the 20th century. The title piece, A Fisherman's Dream, has been loaned by the Key West Art and Historical Society and depicts a glistening basket of Key West Mutton surrounded by an ornately fish-carved frame, a rarity among Sanchez's works.

Sanchez's works were often autobiographical and a final section will feature the artist's life in Gato's Village, Key West. These works depict the artist's boyhood shoeshine stand, his father's shop, Waterloo Cafe, and his uncle's corner grocery. The Gato's Village community in which Sanchez was raised combined American, Cuban, and Key West traditions and cultures, and the artist's work captures the spirit and texture of daily life there. Lucky Fish Rhumba, for example, depicts Nanego musicians and costumed dancers celebrating together under a tropical sky.

About Mario Sanchez

Self-taught artist Mario Sanchez was born in Key West in 1908, the grandson of Cuban immigrants who were among the more than 50,000 Cubans who became the majority of the population by the 1860s. His father was an entrepreneur and also worked in cigar-making shops. Lending his theatrical skills to read aloud to the workers from literature and news of the day. Mario went to school in Key West, in the town's first free and integrated bilingual school, and he graduated from the Otto L. Schultz Business Institute in 1925. He went on to hold a variety of jobs, including as a clerk, stenographer, and janitor at the Key West Art & Historical Society.

He had enjoyed carving as a child, and as young man began carving fish out of pieces of driftwood, which he sold for $1.50. In the 1940s, at the urging of his mother-in-law, he began creating more complicated scenes of life in Key West as he remembered them from his childhood. His work eventually drew the attention of a member of the Key West Art & Historical Society, who eventually donated and endowed the museum with many works of his works. Other collectors included Spencer Tracey, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant, who purchased four carvings while in Key West to film Operation Petticoat (the pieces later appeared on the wall in a hotel scene in the movie A Touch of Mink.)

During his more than 70-year career, Sanchez developed his own style while mastering more traditional skills such as bas-relief carving and perspective. Working in cedar wood and white pine, the artist first sketched the scene onto a paper bag, and then used carbon paper to transfer the image to the wooden canvas. He then removed the wood to create a low bas-relief, leaving the original sketch behind. He then applied materials such as house paint, clean kitty litter (to provide texture for the streets), and egg yolks and Elmer's glue (to make the windows shiny) in early years and fine European oils later on.

In November 1996, Mario Sanchez was named the most important Cuban-American Folk Artist of the 20th Century by the national magazine Folk Art. Sanchez's works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art and are avidly collected by Key West residents as well as art connoisseurs around the world.

About the South Street Seaport Museum

Since 1967, the South Street Seaport Museum has presented exhibitions that tell the stories of the Seaport's past, present, and future. Reopened in January 2012 under the management of the Museum of the City of New York, the Seaport Museum presents a lively interweaving of the city and the sea through photography, video, historic artifacts, and contemporary design displayed throughout three floors of historic Schermerhorn Row galleries. The Museum is open seven days a week from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Admission is $10 and free for children under 9.

PAST, PRESENT, PA'LANTE Exhibition in PUERTO RICO

Group Art exhibit at the Museum La Casona in Puerto Rico. From November 1, 2012 to January 19, 2013.
Opening Reception November 1, 2012 from 6 to 8 pm.

Pictured to the right Dancing & Two Friends paintings by Jose Acosta

Participating Artists - Jose Acosta - Maria Aguiar - Gerardo Castro - Pablo Caviedes - Carlos Chavez - Jose Manuel Cruz - Christine Devereaux - Irelys Martinez Tejeda - Arazay Molina - Salvatore Tagliarino - Isabell Villacis.

Address: La Casona
Calle Cruz Ortiz #104
Humacao, P.R. 00791
Tel. 787-285-2533

SEPTEMBER 9 - OCTOBER 4, 2012 Opening Reception: Sunday, September 9, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
ARTS GUILD NEW JERSEY
1670 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065
P: 732-381-7511 / www.agnj.org
Gallery hours: Sat. Sun.: 1 - 4PM, Mon through Fri: between 10AM and 4PM.
Please use the rear lot entrance during weekday hours.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY: As part of fall National Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Arts Guild New Jersey will present an inspiring exhibition of contemporary Latino art entitled: WE ARE YOU PROJECT INTERNATIONAL from September 9 to October 4, 2012. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Sunday, September 9 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM and is open to all. Admission is Free and light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will take place at Arts Guild New Jersey galleries at 1670 Irving Street Rahway, NJ.

This insightful thought-provoking exhibition, developed by We Are You Project, represents the first comprehensive, coast-to-coast, artistic overview of the current state of Latino socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions in the 21st Century. The show sheds light on both alarming and promising conditions that presently
surround and confront Ibero-Americans throughout the United States as well as Latin America.

This exhibit reveals both prescient Latino concerns as well as achievements, which are reflected in paintings, prints, and mixed-media works by thirty-five prominent, contemporary Hispanic artists, whose extensive transcultural and pan-Latino-heritage(s)
can be traced to diverse Latin American nationalities, including Mexico, Puerto-Rico, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican
Republic, Costa Rica, Spain and Portugal. Most importantly, each artist in the exhibit have attained professional success by expressing in their visual art both their vision
and unique personal story.

The thirty-five exhibiting We Are You Project artists, which are celebrating their Hispanic Heritage through their art, include: Jose Acosta, Efren Alvarez, Nelson Alvarez, Willie Baez, Josephine Barreiro, Hugo X. Bastidas, Monica S. Camin, Priscila De Carvalho, Jacqui Casale, Gerardo Castro, Pablo Caviedes, Carlos Chavez, Williams Coronado, Maritza Davila, Rosario D'Rivera, Ricardo Fonseca, Fernando Goldoni, Elizabeth Jimenez Montelongo, Roberto Marquez, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Hugo Morales, Lisette Morel, Patricio Moreno Toro, Gabriel Navar, Julio Nazario, Jimmy Pena, Joe Pena, Duda Penteado, Mel Ramos, Rolando Reyna, Jesus Rivera, Jose Rodeiro, Marta Sanchez, Sergio Villamizar and Raul Villarreal. The We Are You Project Website is http://www.weareyouproject.org/6201.html .

At the opening reception. Sunday, September 9 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Dr. Carlos Hernandez, as well as Mr. Mario Tapia, two of the founders and leaders of the We Are You Project will speak about the Project's future and its ground-breaking socio-cultural significance for all Latinos. In additionally, Hiram Colon, the composer of the "We Are You" theme-song, will perform in collaboration with singer Sophia Angelica, of the Dora the Explorer television show.

About Arts Guild New Jersey Arts Guild New Jersey is a non-profit center for the arts located in the downtown Arts District of Rahway. Each year, the Guild presents a series of fine art exhibitions and an art education program that includes studio art classes for adults, teens and children, an on-going series of intensive one-day workshops for adults, and a series of summer art workshops for teens and children. Other programs have included film screenings, lectures and seminars on arts and cultural topics, artist networking opportunities, a jazz series and small scale concerts of other musical forms. Arts Guild New Jersey is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, Routes 1 & 9, Saint Georges Avenue (Route 27/35), and by train, via NJ Transit Northeast Corridor and Jersey Shore Lines. The exhibit program at Arts Guild New Jersey is made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by a grant from the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, which promotes health, well-being and quality of life in New Jersey's communities, including the arts. Sponsors of this program are RSI Bank, Rahway, NJ, and ConocoPhillips.

For further information about the show and the related events please contact Lawrence Cappiello, Executive Director (732) 381-7511 Arts Guild New Jersey info@agnj.org or www.agnj.org

RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY: As part of fall 2012 National Hispanic Heritage Celebration, Arts Guild New Jersey will present an inspiring exhibition of contemporary Latino art entitled: WE ARE YOU PROJECT INTERNATIONAL

Pictured to the right "Hispanic Pride" painting by Jose Acosta.

From September 9 to October 4, 2012. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Sunday, September 9 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM and is open to all. Admission is Free and light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will take place at Arts Guild New Jersey galleries at 1670 Irving Street Rahway, NJ.

This insightful thought-provoking exhibition, developed by We Are You Project, represents the first comprehensive, coast-to-coast, artistic overview of the current
state of Latino socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions in the 21st Century. The show sheds light on both alarming and promising conditions that presently
surround and confront Ibero-Americans throughout the United States as well as Latin America.

This exhibit reveals both prescient Latino concerns as well as achievements, which are reflected in paintings, prints, and mixed-media works by thirty-five prominent,
contemporary Hispanic artists, whose extensive transcultural and pan-Latino-heritage(s)
can be traced to diverse Latin American nationalities, including Mexico, Puerto-Rico, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican
Republic, Costa Rica, Spain and Portugal. Most importantly, each artist in the exhibit have attained professional success by expressing in their visual art both their vision
and unique personal story.

The thirty-five exhibiting We Are You Project artists, which are celebrating their Hispanic Heritage through their art, include: Jose Acosta, Efren Alvarez, Nelson
Alvarez, Willie Baez, Josephine Barreiro, Hugo X. Bastidas, Monica S. Camin, Priscila De Carvalho, Jacqui Casale, Gerardo Castro, Pablo Caviedes, Carlos Chavez, Williams Coronado, Maritza Davila, Rosario D'Rivera, Ricardo Fonseca, Fernando Goldoni, Elizabeth Jimanez Montelongo, Roberto Marquez, Raphael Montanez Orti____z, Hugo
Morales, Lisette Morel, Patricio Moreno Toro, Gabriel Navar, Julio Nazario, Jimmy Pena, Joe Pena, Duda Penteado, Mel Ramos, Rolando Reyna, Jesus Rivera, Jose Rodeiro,
Marta Sanchez, Sergio Villamizar and Raul Villarreal. The We Are You Project Website is http://www.weareyouproject.org/6201.html

At the opening reception. Sunday, September 9 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Dr. Carlos Hernandez, as well as Mr. Mario Tapia, two of the founders and leaders of the We Are You Project will speak about the Projects future and its ground-breaking socio-cultural significance for all Latinos. In additionally, Hiram Colon, the composer of the We Are You theme-song, will perform in collaboration with singer Sophia Angelica, of the Dora the Explorer television show.

About Arts Guild New Jersey
1670 Irving Street
Rahway, NJ 07065
(732) 381-7511
Arts Guild New Jersey is a non-profit center for the arts located in the downtown Arts District of Rahway. Each year, the Guild presents a series of fine art exhibitions and an art education program that includes studio art classes for adults, teens and children, an on-going series of intensive one-day workshops for adults, and a series of summer art workshops for teens and children. Other programs have included film screenings, lectures and seminars on arts and cultural topics, artist networking opportunities, a jazz series and small scale concerts of other musical forms. Arts Guild New Jersey is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, Routes 1 & 9, Saint Georges Avenue (Route 27/35), and by train, via NJ Transit Northeast Corridor and Jersey Shore Lines. The exhibit program at Arts Guild New Jersey is made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by a grant from the Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, which promotes health, well-being and quality of life in New Jersey's communities, including the arts. Sponsors of this program are RSI Bank, Rahway, NJ, and ConocoPhillips.

ARTS GUILD NJ ART EXHIBIT: CALENDAR LISTING:

WE ARE YOU PROJECT INTERNATIONAL
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 9 , From 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, Sundays: 1:00-4:00 PM
Monday through Thursday: 10:00 AM-3:30 PM
Gallery Location: Arts Guild New Jersey

1670 Irving Street
Rahway, New Jersey 07065
Telephone: 732-381-7511

For further information about the show and the related events please contact
Lawrence Cappiello, Executive Director (732) 381-7511
Arts Guild New Jersey artsguild1670@verizon.net or www.agnj.org

I would like to introduce the work of Benjamin Casiano to the readers of this blog.

To the right "The Dance" by Benjamin Casiano

To learn more about Benjamin Casiano and his work please visit his site at www.benjamincasiano.net

I enjoyed viewing his art and I hope you will, Jose Acosta

About: Benjamin Casiano

- Born and raised in New York City

- BFA graduate from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY

- Resident of Stratford CT

- Board member at Stamford Art Association

- Raised by Puerto Rican born parents

Influence: Matisse, Modigliani, Lempicka, Rothko and De Kooning

Movement: Abstract Expressionism and Cubism

Galleries, Exhibits and Awards

- The Westport River Art Gallery in CT. 2010 - Present

- First place winner at The Firehouse Art Gallery in Milford CT Oct. 2010

- SoBoBo Art Gallery Milford CT. 2011- Present

- Stamford Art Association CT. 2011- Present

- Hispanic Month Art Exhibition at City Hall Annex, (City Lights Art Gallery) Bridgeport, CT 2011

- Hispanic Heritage Month Art Exhibition at Cartus Corporation, Danbury CT. 2011

- Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, May-June 2012

- Honored a one on one interview with UNITY Magazine Sept 2012 Issue Hispanic Heritage edition.

ICAFair (International Caribbean Art Fair), first debuted in New York in 2007 and 2008, is re-launching in a new format representing only contemporary Caribbean art. This new edition of the fair in the Washington DC area is scheduled for December 6-9, 2012, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD.

ICAFair will bring to the DC-metro area a selection of the world's leading art galleries representing some of the most renowned Caribbean artists, as well as new talent, for art collectors, curators, and art lovers looking to find great art and discover what's hot in 20th and 21st century contemporary Caribbean art. These galleries and artists will present the finest original works in painting, photography, mixed-media, sculpture, installation, and video.

The Preview Night Benefit set for Thursday, December 6th, from 6:00-9:00pm, will offer collectors, curators, and VIP guests the first opportunity to mingle with exhibitors and artists while supporting a great cause. Our beneficiary will be announced in the summer.

Special events and programs will permit visitors to view rare art collections in the DC area, attend lectures by art experts, and take scheduled tours of the area's great museums.

We look forward to having you at the first edition of ICAFair in the DC-MD-VA area

http://www.icafair.com/pages/about-icafair

El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem join forces for CARIBBEAN: CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD, a landmark exhibition exploring the history and art of the Caribbean

Multimedia exhibition to open in three venues the week of June 12, 2012, with subsequent Caribbean events and collaborations around NYC.

The exhibition will examine the visual arts and aesthetic development across the Caribbean, considering the histories of the Spanish, French, Dutch and English islands and their Diasporas. An it will highlight over two centuries of rarely-seen works from the Haitian Revolution (c. 1804) to the present.

The show features more than 400 works including painting, sculpture, prints, books, photography, film, video and historic artifacts from various Caribbean nations, Europe and the United States. Transcendent in scope, CARIBBEAN: Crossroads examines the exchange of people, goods, ideas and information between the Caribbean basin, Europe and North America and explores the impact of these relationships on the Caribbean and how it is imagined. This citywide endeavor, supported by a major grant from MetLife Foundation, opens in the midst of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, observed nationally during the month of June.

El Museo del Barrio: June 12, 2012 to January 6, 2013

Queens Museum of Art: June 17, 2012 to January 6, 2013

The Studio Museum in Harlem: June 14, 2012 to October 21, 2012

Latino Authors & Writers Society

The Latino Authors & Writers Society is recruiting new members!

New York City, NY, May 14, 2012 Latino Authors & Writers Society was started to help aspiring and published Latino writers and members of the publishing industry get together for networking, the sharing ideas and information, for readings and support, and just for fun. They also have an annual writer's conference! Anyone and everyone are invited to join, especially those that are interested in contemporary Latino literature! Latino Authors & Writers Society meet the last Friday of every month at the Deja Vu Booklounge located at E.112th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, starting at 6:30pm.

This year the Society will have its second annual writers' conference on Saturday, October 6th, 2012. The conference will be dedicated to Piri Thomas and Louis Reyes Rivera, two venerable Latino authors that have recently passed away. For more information, please visit our website at: www.latinoauthorsociety.com, or check out our page on Meetup.com!

La Orquesta de Los Taino will perform at Jose Acosta Event!

This Saturday May 5, 2012 at the Arts Society of Kingston New York, 97 Broadway from 5 to 8 pm La Orquesta de Los Taino will be performing their music for all guests to enjoy at the Cuban American Art Exhibition by Jose Acosta. La Orquesta de Los Taino is one of the most famous Latin music bands in all the Hudson Valley and once you hear their music you will know why.

http://www.myspace.com/lostainosalsa/music/playlists/la-orquesta-de-los-taino-s-playlist-220598

Jose Acosta's 2007 solo art exhibit at the Arts Society of Kingston broke all attendance records with over 400 guests attending that event. Jose expects lots of guests to attend this event and share in the great Art, Music and wonderful food that Jose and his family will prepare for this event. So please make plans to attend the largest and best Cinco de Mayo event in the Hudson Valley this 5th of May 2012. This is a free event and the whole community is invited to attend and enjoy all. To view Jose Acosta's art please visit www.artid.com/jose and for more info contact the Arts Society of Kingston at 845-338-0331

RE-EVOLUTION CUBAN ARTISTS SOMEWHERE NORTH

Pictured to the right 3-D painting by Jesus Rivera.

Yesterday April 12, 2012 I had the great honor of attending RE-EVOLUTION CUBAN ARTISTS SOMEWHERE NORTH at Chashama 655 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (between 41 & 42nd Street) I enjoyed the art exhibition very much and was very impressed with the work of these 5 Cuban Artists who live in the United States and in Canada. Following is the list of the artists participating.

Arvade (Canada)

Cesar Alfonso (USA)

Jesus Rivera (USA)

Agustin Rolando Rojas (Canada)

Raul Villarreal (USA)

The exhibition has a wonderful mix of art from paintings in 3-D to constructions, photography and prints. I am very glad that Chashama and the Cuban Artists Fund where able to create this wonderful exhibit. Special thanks to Carlos Pomares the Executive Director of Cuban Artists Fund. For more information please contact Carlos at 973-670-0691 or e-mail carlos@cubanartistsfund.org

To view images from some of the artists above please visit there websites

www.cesaralfonso.com

www.raulvillarreal.com

www.qbava.com

This is a must see art exhibit for anyone in the New York area who enjoys art. Will be on view from April 13th to the 27th (Mon-Sun 11 - 6pm)

New Art Selection Exhibit at ABRO Gallery

Program: Wynwood Arts District Second Saturday Art Walk

Pictured to the right painting "Small Church" by Jose Acosta

ABRO Gallery owned by the famous artist Ada Balcacer will be hosting a new event called New Art Selections. Opening reception is Saturday, April 14, 2012
From 7 to 11pm.

Featured Artists:

Ada Balcacer

Jose Acosta

Domingo Batista

Joel Blanco

Alejandro Estrada

Domingo Liz

Jose Pelletier

ABRO Gallery is located at 2137 NW 2nd Ave, Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127 for more info please call 786-348-2100

We Are You Project Opening Reception

Yesterday Sunday March 18, 2012 I had the honor to participate and attend the opening reception of the We Are You Project at Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba in NYC.

Pictured to the right Artists Raul Villarreal, Joe Overstreet and Jose Acosta.

I enjoyed the art exhibit and the music and singing that were all part of the program. My friend and fellow artist Jose Rodeiro was great in that he introduced me to many fellow artists that I did not already know and also to many of the distinguished guests that attended this event. One of the organizers of the event Robert Rosado was also kind enough to introduce me to many distinguished guests. I met so many people and artists, among the most interesting was Joe Overstreet who is world renown and loves to talk about art and share his experiences and stories. I enjoyed hearing about his friend William De Konning and the time that Diego Rivera drew his portrait. The Wilmer Jennings Gallery is just so beautiful and all the art works looked so good. I was so proud to exhibit with such high caliber of artists and in such a wonderful gallery.

We Are You Project visual artists on exhibit were: Jose Acosta, Efren Alvarez, Nelson Alvarez, Willie Baez, Josephine Barreiro, Hugo X. Bastidas, Monica S. Camin, Priscila De Carvalho, Jacqui Casale, Gerardo Castro, Pablo Caviedes, Carlos Chavez, William Coronado, Maritza Davila, Rosario D'Rivera, Fernando Goldoni, Roberto Marquez, Raphael Montanez-Ortiz, Elizabeth Jimenez Montelongo, Hugo Morales, Lisette Morel, Gabriel Navar, Julio Nazario, Jimmy Pena, Joe Pena, Duda Penteado, Mel Ramos, Rolando Reyna, Jesus Rivera, Jose Rodeiro, Marta Sanchez, Sergio Villamizar and Raul Villarreal.

This exhibition, developed by We Are You Project, represents the first comprehensive, coast-to-coast, artistic overview of the current state of Latino socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions in the 21st Century.

These express conditions are reflected in paintings and prints by thirty-five prominent, contemporary Hispanic artists whose trans-cultural and pan-Latino-heritage can be traced to many and diverse Ibero-American traditions, including Mexico, Puerto-Rico, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, and Spain and Portugal. Most importantly, each artist or their families have experienced the perspective of being an immigrant, refugee, a migrant, expatriate, or nomad, who gratefully found a new home in the United States, and where over the course of years, they have attained professional success by expressing both their vision and unique personal story.

The exhibit will be up until May 15, 2012 then it will continue on a world tour for next few years. At the Opening Reception, introductions to the We Are You Project premiere exhibition were be made by Dr. Carlos Hern____ndez, President, New Jersey City University, as well as Mr. Mario Tapia, President of the Latino Center on Aging in New York City. Additionally, Hiram Col___³n, the composer of the music and lyrics for the We Are You theme-song, performed in collaboration with singer Sophia Ang____lica, of the Dora the Explorer television show. There will be a We Are You Project Poetry Reading on April 7 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6 pm or by appointment Gallery Location: 219 East 2nd Street at Avenue B

For more info please visit www.weareyouproject.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmqlYn_0teQ&feature=em-share_video_user