I have some exciting news to share – I have been accepted into the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures 2023 NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI) fellowship. I am thrilled and grateful for this opportunity to further develop my skills and pursue my passion for arts and cultural advocacy. Participating in this fellowship is an…Read more »
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Painting and sipping into the New Year
Since September of this year, I have been hosting “paint and sip” events at a newly-opened local art shop, Sunnyside Arts. It started out on a whim; I thought it might be fun to try. I had never been an art teacher of any sort, but I have been a party host and producer –…Read more »
Everything is Coming Together
Dear Friends, Through the years, I have worked in different industries, a variety on different projects, and made art in different mediums – writing, music, painting, etc. It made sense then that I had a variety of blogs, web pages, and social media pages specific to each focus. Lately, the Venn diagram of my life…Read more »
New Beginning at Upstream
I’m happy to start off the New Year with three of my paintings included in the group art exhibition, Small Works 2022 – New Beginning at the Upstream Gallery in Hastings on Hudson, NY – from January 6th through January 30th, 2022. The theme, New Beginning, spoke to me for a number of reasons, as…Read more »
My Work to be Included in Debtfair @ Whitney Biennial!
Yes, you read that right! It’s amazing and it’s true. I submitted my work to an open call for the arts activist group, Occupy Museums (born out of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011) for their project, Debtfair which acutely addresses the subject of artists’ debt. (Yes, I am in debt – you probably…Read more »
New paintings about Puerto Rico
Earlier this year, I was accepted in to a program through CCCADI called Community Arts University Without Walls (CAUWW) in which we went to do an intensive summer semester at Interamerican University in Puerto Rico. Many amazing things came out of this fantastic adventure for me, including my starting a blog, Travesia Artistica (ArtisticVoyage), conceptualizing an art event (details TBA)…Read more »