This timeline and exhibition chronology is in process Introduction and will be subject to additions and corrections The early history of El Museo del Barrio is complex. as more information comes to light. All artists’ It is intertwined with popular struggles in New York names have been input directly from brochures, City over access to, and control of, educational and catalogues, or other existing archival documentation. cultural resources. Part and parcel of the national We apologize for any oversights, misspellings, or Civil Rights movement, public demonstrations, inconsistencies. A careful reader will note names strikes, boycotts, and sit-ins were held in New York that shift between the Spanish and the Anglicized City between 1966 and 1969. African American and versions. Names have been kept, for the most part, Puerto Rican parents, teachers and community as they are in the original documents. However, these activists in Central and East Harlem demanded variations, in themselves, reveal much about identity that their children— who, by 1967, composed the and cultural awareness during these decades. majority of the public school population—receive an education that acknowledged and addressed their We are grateful for any documentation that can diverse cultural heritages. In 1969, these community- be brought to our attention by the public at large. based groups attained their goal of decentralizing This timeline focuses on the defining institutional the Board of Education. They began to participate landmarks, as well as the major visual arts in structuring school curricula, and directed financial exhibitions. There are numerous events that still resources towards ethnic-specific didactic programs need to be documented and included, such as public that enriched their children’s education. East Harlem’s programming: lectures, symposia, festivals, theatre, Puerto Rican communities’ energy and dedication music, film and video, readings, dance, artist’s to social justice paved the way for the founding of performances, as well as educational outreach and El Museo del Barrio. collaborations. While there is much more research to be done, we believe that putting forth this Following is an institutional timeline and exhibition timeline contributes to the scholarship on Puerto chronology. Published here for the first time, this Rican, Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American art research was undertaken with the purpose of and culture. establishing a more complete exhibition history, and it is incorporated within the broader trajectory of institutional milestones.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo apprentice program, and research and library 1960s El Museo Is Born resources, all to be administered by El Museo del African American and Puerto Rican parents, Barrio, are in the archives of El Museo del Barrio, teachers, and community activists in Central and as well as a letter to Puerto Rican artists, where he East Harlem demand from School District that their introduces the institution: “The Museo del Barrio is children receive an education that acknowledged its title: a neighborhood museum of Puerto Rican and addressed their diverse and cultural heritages. In culture. . .” El Museo del Barrio receives its primary response, artist/educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz is funding from the Board of Education from 1969 appointed to create educational materials but instead until 1974. Montañez Ortiz stated, “The cultural creates a community-based museum dedicated to disenfranchisement I experience as a Puerto Rican Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States called has prompted me to seek a practical alternative to El Museo del Barrio. the orthodox museum, which fails to meet my needs Martin W. Frey, Superintendent of School District for an authentic ethnic experience. To afford me and 4, under pressure from parents and community others the opportunity to establish living connections activists to implement cultural enrichment programs with our own culture, I founded El Museo del Barrio.” for Puerto Rican children, appoints artist/educator (Ralph Ortiz, “Culture and the People,” Art in Rafael Montañez Ortiz to create educational America, May–June 1971, 27) Director Rafael Montañez Ortiz preparing to move from 425 West materials for schools in District 4 on Puerto Rican 125th Street to PS 206 at 508 East 120th Street. Grace Glueck, “Barrio Museum: Hope Si, Home No,” The New York Times, 30 July 1970: 38. history, culture, folklore, and art. In 1969, District SUMMER 4 encompassed parts of Central Harlem and East Montañez Ortiz travels to Puerto Rico with Martin W. Harlem. Montañez Ortiz was primarily hired to serve Frey, to conduct research on Puerto Rican culture teachers, The Young Lords Political Party, and The the population of East Harlem, known as El Barrio, and make institutional contacts with museum Real Great Society (a collective of architects and where the majority of the Puerto Rican population directors and anthropologists. urban planners based in East Harlem). Montañez lived. As an artist, activist, and teacher at the High FALL Ortiz also contacted Puerto Rican artists such as School of Music and Art, Montañez Ortiz was aware Funded by the Community Education Center (a state- Marcos Dimas and Adrián García, who were members of the urgent need to create cultural resources for financed program providing supplementary services of the Art Workers Coalition, a political action group. Puerto Ricans of all ages. Montañez Ortiz reconceives for children and adults), El Museo del Barrio begins Dimas and García participate in the first Advisory the project as a community museum, dedicated to operations in a schoolroom at PS 125, located at 425 Board of El Museo del Barrio and later form Taller the Puerto Rican Diaspora in the United States, that West 123rd Street. PS 125 also housed the office of Boricua, an artist’s collective that is still in operation. he names “El Museo del Barrio.” Montañez Ortiz District 4. During his first year as Director, Montañez In addition, Montañez Ortiz visited museums in New serves as founding director from June 1969 to Spring Ortiz reached out to the East Harlem community by York City to research their collections of Puerto Rican 1971. His original typed proposal and budgets for discussing plans for El Museo del Barrio with parents, art and artifacts. exhibitions, workshops, performing arts projects,

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El Museo serves as a non-profit organization out of a Osiris Delgado, Victor Linares, Bart Mayol, Waldemar series of storefronts and brownstones before finding Morales, Miguel Pou, Jorge Rechany, and Rafael its permanent home in the Heckscher Building Tufiño, loaned from Museo de Arte de Ponce; and on 5th Avenue and 104th Street. It is a decade of graphics by Luis Germán Cajigas, Manuel Hernández firsts including the first donation to the permanent Acevedo, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Raquel Rivera, and collection, as well as the first large-scale exhibition Rafael Tufiño, loaned from Riverside Museum. collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum called SUMMER “The Art Heritage of Puerto Rico.” Montañez Ortiz conducts research in Puerto Rico. 1970 JULY WINTER 1969–SPRING 1970 The New York Times notes that El Museo is moving from headquarters at PS 125. Journalist Grace Montañez Ortiz appoints Puerto Rican art historian Glueck notes that “El Museo was born in June Marimar B. [Benítez] Quintana as Assistant Director. 1969, the brainchild of Martin W. Frey.” While she Montañez Ortiz and Benítez organize two exhibitions credits Montañez Ortiz as Director, she initiates the which are presented at PS 206, 508 East 120th misconception that Frey intended to found a museum Street and Pleasant Avenue. Other early participants in East Harlem. (Grace Glueck, “Barrio Museum: Hope in El Museo del Barrio’s activities included Hilda Si, Home No,” The New York Times, 30 July 1970: 38) Arroyo, Carmen Bocachica, Félix Cortés, Elena Gil, Alberto Martínez, and Justo Santana (Antonio SEPTEMBER 22–NOVEMBER 29 Gil de Lamadrid, “El Museo del Barrio Apuntala Bruce Davidson, after two years of photographing Cultura Boricua,” El Diario La Prensa, 28 July 1970, in El Barrio, presents the exhibition East 100th Supplement, 15). Street at the Museum of Modern Art. Felipe Dante, a MAY photographer, early participant in El Museo, and a founder of En Foco, authors the article, “But Where is The Art of Needlework, curated by Marimar Benítez Our Soul,” a critical response to the exhibition, which and Rafael Montañez Ortiz, including knitting, generated some controversy (The New York Times, crochet and embroidery, is presented at PS 206. Sunday, October 11, 1970). (Your Thing, August 7, 1970, 8) LATE SPRING–THROUGH JULY FALL El Museo del Barrio relocates entirely to PS 206 as a Rafael Montañez Ortiz (left) and Marimar B. Quintana (right), with a An exhibition of Puerto Rican paintings and graphics, painting by Miguel Pou, on loan from Museo de Arte de Ponce, in an result of a citywide reorganization of school districts. exhibition presented at PS 206, New York, accompanied by Elena Gil, curated by Marimar Benítez and Rafael Montañez Carmen Bocachica, Felix Cortes, Hilda Arroyo, and Alberto Martinez. Ortiz, is presented at PS 206. It includes paintings by Antonio Gil de Lamadrid, “El Museo del Barrio Apuntala Cultura Boricua,” El Diario La Prensa, 28 July 1970, Supplement, 15.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo 1971 after an ad was placed in The New York Times. Both Rafael Montañez Ortiz and Moreno Vega make JANUARY 21 presentations—Moreno Vega is voted in as second “El Museo del Barrio” is filed as a not-for-profit Director of El Museo del Barrio. Moreno Vega corporation. Ralph Ortiz, José García, and Jerald continues the dialogue begun by Montañez Ortiz Ordover are listed as the initial directors. with parents, teachers, artists, and other museum MARCH 2—MAY 31 directors in the city about the need to support Boricua—Aquí y Allá (Puerto Ricans— Here and a community museum for Puerto Ricans in East There), curated by Rafael Montañez Ortiz, is Harlem. Hilda Arroyo Gillis and Carmen Bocachica continue to work with El Museo; Hiram Maristany, a presented in The Corner Gallery of the American One of El Museo’s earliest bankbooks. Museum of Natural History. The 20-minute audio- photographer and member of the Young Lords party, visual program is comprised of 486 color slides as well as Adrián García, Manuel Otero, Armando depicting Puerto Rican life in the United States and Soto, Sammy Tanco and Nitza Tufiño (Breitman), on the Island. The images, taken by Felipe Dante, members of the artists’ collective Taller Boricua, and Richard Globus, and Rafael Montañez Ortiz, among Laura Moreno, photographer José Gomez, Edgar others, were presented through six, computer-linked Ruíz Zapata, and others help El Museo by organizing projectors in a 20 x 30 foot oval room, lined with educational activities, exhibitions, programs and five 10 x 6 foot mirrors and three 9 x 6 foot screens, workshops. Montañez Ortiz publishes a version of his accompanied by a soundtrack. The presentation presentation in Art in America (see citation above) was designed and installed in collaboration with a while Moreno Vega eventually presents her ideas in photodigital non-profit organization, The Museum of “The Community Museum Concept,” (Quimbamba: The Media (New York Post, February 24, 1971; Ernesto Bilingual Education Quarterly, New York: El Museo Leogrande, Daily News, March 19, 1971). Ironically, del Barrio, June 1972, 19–22) and “Museums this exhibition generates some of the same criticism Redefined,” (Quimbamba, December 1973, np). Marta that Bruce Davidson’s project did: some claimed its Moreno Vega serves as director from Spring 1971 until depictions were too negative, while others celebrated her resignation on March 15, 1975. the first depiction of Puerto Ricans, by Puerto Ricans, JULY 9 inside a major New York cultural institution. Homage to Our Painters inaugurates El Museo del SPRING Barrio’s third location, a brownstone at 206 East Community activists at School District 4 and 116th Street. “Puerto Rican Art on Display” (The Community Board 11 hold hearings on the future Daily News, July 10, 1971, 23) notes that “El Museo

of El Museo del Barrio. Educator and artist Marta del Barrio, the city’s first Puerto Rican art museum, El Museo staff badges: Adrián García, Manuel “Neco” Otero, and Moreno Vega applies for the position of Director opened yesterday at 106 (sic) East 116th Street, Sammy Tanco.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo with 31 paintings by 19 artists on display.” (See also These prints will be on view at El Museo del Barrio the Journal of the Board of Education of the City of starting November 8, 1971.” El Museo del Barrio New York, Ed. 8.1b, May 19, 1971, 594–595; motion begins receiving donations from artists and other submitted on April 8 by Martin Frey). supporters to establish a permanent collection. They initiate a tradition that continues to the present. SEPTEMBER 22 “Amigos del Museo del Barrio” is filed as a not-for- NOVEMBER 8 profit corporation, and a second legal name. Martha Graphic Portfolio of the Centro de Arte Vega, Eugene Calderón, Hilda Arroyo, and Hiram Puertorriqueño opens. El Museo’s brownstone at 206 East 116th Street (El Museo promotional booklet; photography by Hiram Maristany). Maristany are listed as the initial directors. El Museo receives its first support from the New York FALL State Council on the Arts in 1971–1972. A successful series of workshops and exhibits, including the first exhibit of Taíno artifacts, are 1972 implemented during the year. School groups from MID-1972 all five boroughs of New York visit El Museo del Taíno, organized by Marta Moreno Vega and Irvine Barrio. Ongoing discussions with Irvine Mac Manus, Mac Manus, includes Taíno objects from the Museum Education Assistant for Community Programs at The El Museo’s first logo, a stylized rendering of Atabex, the Taíno goddess of American Indian and is presented at 206 East 116th depicted in petroglyphs. Metropolitan Museum of Art, result in the initiation of Street. a collaboration between both institutions. AUGUST 7 NOVEMBER Barbara Rose publishes an article about El Museo The first donation to the Permanent Collection of del Barrio, entitled, “Art in the Barrio,” NY Magazine, El Museo del Barrio is noted in a Press Release: 58. She quotes Marta Vega and mentions exhibitions “El Museo del Barrio, Community School District of Taíno art, masks, and handcrafts; the programs 4M, has received its first major art donation from of Taller Boricua, including artists Marcos Dimas and Florencio García Cisneros, owner of Cisneros Gallery, Carlos Osorio; and the organization Ola, headed by New York, N.Y. The donation, a graphic arts portfolio, Petra Cintrón. Rose also mentions the contributions constitutes the first publication of the Centro de Arte of Puerto Rican artists Ralph Ortiz and Rafael Ferrer Puertorriqueño in 1951. It is the result of the collective in the New York avant-garde. endeavors of some of our most outstanding Puerto Rican Artists: J.A. Torres Martinó, Félix Rodríguez, SEPTEMBER Quimbamba lists the upcoming exhibition schedule Rafael Tufiño, Lorenzo Homar, Rubén Rivera Aponte, as: September: El Taller Movil: Paintings and Graphics Samuel Sánchez, Carlos R. Rivera and Carlos Marichal. Installation of Taíno materials in the brownstone at 206 East 116th Street. by Puerto Rican Contemporary Artists, including (El Museo promotional booklet; photography by Hiram Maristany).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Children exiting El Museo’s “Mobil Unit” (photo by José Gomez). El Taller Boricua; Oct/Nov: Artesanos: Handcrafts APRIL 30–JULY 1 from Puerto Rico; Dec/Jan: Felicidades, Christmas The Art Heritage of Puerto Rico: Pre-Columbian presentation with the Three Kings, slide show, and to the Present is the first exhibition presented at santos; Feb/Mar/Apr: Revelations, a survey of Puerto El Museo’s new location on Third Avenue, as noted Rican art from the 17th century to the present; by George Gent in his article, “Puerto Rican Art is May: El Arte de la Aguja: (The Art of Needlework), Shown Uptown,” (The New York Times, Tuesday, needlecrafts done by mothers of the community; May 1, 1973). The exhibition includes over 150 works June/July/Aug: Art Workshops-El Barrio, works by over forty artists. The objects range from Taíno created by children. artifacts, wooden santos, musical instruments,18th- and 19th-century paintings and prints (including NOVEMBER José Campeche, Francisco Oller, and José Manuel El Museo del Barrio leases its fourth location, a series Loira), and paintings and prints by modern and of storefronts on Third Avenue, between 107th and contemporary Puerto Rican artists. These include: 108th Streets. While the building numbers eventually Roberto Alberty, Olga Albizu, José R. Alicea, Ramón incorporated 1931–1935 and 1947–1959, the main or The Art Heritage Atiles, Myrna Báez, Luis G. Cajigas, Fran Cervoni, of Puerto Rico: mailing address was always listed as 1945. El Museo Pre-Columbian Leoncio Concepción, Ramón Frade, Domingo García, remains here until 1977, later adding on “Galeria II” at to the Present Natividad Gutiérrez, Manuel Hernández Acevedo, exhibition 1935 Third Avenue, and the Firehouse on 104th Street. catalogue cover. Luis Hernández Cruz, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos From this location, El Museo del Barrio initiates its Irizarry, Epifanio Irizarry, Marcos Irizarry, Domingo “Mobile Unit,” a long van with exhibitions and displays López, Antonio Maldonado, Augusto Marín, Antonio inside, that travels to various locations to serve Martorell, Joaquín Mercado, Julio Micheli Lebrón, students, community festivals, and other groups. Nicolasa Mohr, José Morales, José R. Oliver, Carlos (See Marta Vega, ”Annual Report, Amigos del Museo Osorio, Rafael Palacios, Miguel Pou, Carlos Raquel del Barrio, Quimbamba, December 1973) El Museo Rivera, Rafael Rivera Rosa, Francisco Rodón, José A. del Barrio receives its first support from the National Rosa, Julio Rosado del Valle, Julio Santiago Bracero, Endowment for the Arts in 1972–1973. Carmelo Sobrino, María E. Somoza, Antonio Torres Martino, Rafael Tufiño, and Isabel Vázquez. This 1973 exhibition is the first to survey the history of Puerto JANUARY Rican art. It is accompanied by 120-page catalogue, Quimbamba continues to list El Museo’s location as published in 1974 (also see Amei Wallach, “ ‘New York 206 East 116th Street, perhaps during renovation of Ricans’ Seek Their Heritage,” Newsday, The Arts II, the Third Avenue storefronts. Sunday May 20, 1973). Director Marta Moreno Vega (Quimbamba: Bilingual Education Quarterly, New York: El Museo del Barrio, January 1973, photographers Hiram Maristany and José Gomez).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo The exhibition was based on the scholarship of Dr. of Art, in the galleries now designated The Florence therefore necessary in November 1972 to relocate... Ricardo Alegría, Executive Director of the Instituto de and Herbert Irving Galleries of Southeast Asian Art. Amigos del Museo del Barrio, Inc. was formed in Cultura Puertorriqueña; Dr. Osiris Delgado, Director 1971 to function as the vehicle for providing quality AUGUST 11–DECEMBER of the Museo de Antropología, Historia y Arte de la educational and resource materials on a larger scale. La historia del Cartel Puertorriqueño/The History Universidad de Puerto Rico; and Dr. Arturo Dávila, Under Amigos del Museo del Barrio, Inc. grants were of Puerto Rican Posters, curated by Rafael Tufiño, Curator of La Colección del Arzobispo de Puerto received to augment the exhibition component of Irene Delano, and the staff of El Museo del Barrio, Rico. The exhibition team from the Metropolitan El Museo del Barrio.” opens. Quimbamba (December 1973) mentions the Museum of Art included: Henry Geldzahler, Curator, participation of artists Manuel Hernández Acevedo, Twentieth-Century Art; John Howat, Curator, Antonio Maldonado, Rafael Tufiño, and Antonio 1974 American Paintings and Sculpture; John McKendry, Martorell in this exhibition. JUNE Curator, Prints and Photographs; Theodore Rousseau, Aspectos de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico, curated Curator in Chief, and James Pilgrim, Assistant This Quimbamba lists the prior programs as: by Marta Moreno Vega, a groundbreaking exhibition Curator in Chief. The entire project was supervised Felicidades, Felicidades; Artesanías; What Puerto documenting slavery and Afro-Puerto Rican heritage, by Harry S. Parker III, Vice-Director for Education, Rico Means to Me; El Arte de la Aguja; Un Saborcito includes the sections: Africa to Puerto Rico, Drawings and coordinated by the Department of Community de los Talleres; Exposición Rodante; Artesanías, by Tomás Vega; Contemporary Graphics and Programs, which included in its staff Catherine Santos. Paintings from Artists of Puerto Rico and New York, Chance, Dora Rubiano, and María E. Somoza. Irvine DECEMBER including Edgar Ruíz Zapata, Nitza Tufiño, Gilberto Mac Manus, Education Assistant for Community Marta Vega publishes El Museo’s first annual Hernández, Antonio Martorell, Rafael Tufiño, José Programs, was responsible for bringing the exhibition report, which explains the reason for the second Alicea, López del Campo, Torres Martinó, Ramón successfully to fruition. From El Museo del Barrio, the incorporation, and El Museo’s two legal names— Olivera, José Rosa, Antonio Maldonando, Myrna team included Marta Vega, Director; Carmen Morgan, “El Museo del Barrio” and “Amigos del Museo del Education; and the artists Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Barrio” (Quimbamba, December 1973). She writes Osorio, and Rafael Tufiño. El Museo “was created in 1969 as a result of the JULY 1 parents in the community voicing a need and desire Proposed cuts in state urban education funds for their children to receive this type of information threaten El Museo del Barrio’s financial support as a part of their formal education. During the first from the New York City Department of Education. two years of its existence the program mounted The staff elects to work without pay until additional its exhibits in one of the schools in the district. This funding sources can be secured. space was inadequate because it could not service all the children we wanted to reach. In 1971 El Museo JULY 25–SEPTEMBER 16 del Barrio acquired a brownstone on East 116th Street. The Art Heritage of Puerto Rico: Pre-Columbian to The first exhibit in that building took place in July Borinquen... y después Colón (and then Columbus), educational material the Present is presented at The Metropolitan Museum 1971 and was titled, “Homage to our Painters”... It was produced by El Museo in 1973 (drawing by Tomás Vega).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Báez, Jaime Romano, Augusto Marín, and Rafael 1975 Colón Morales; Bélgica and Loiza Aldea, photographs by Hiram Maristany; and original African artifacts, JANUARY 15 loaned from the American Museum of Natural History. Hilda [Arroyo] Gillis is appointed Acting Director; Hiram Maristany is named Acting Assistant Director. JUNE 28–OCTOBER 15 Art as Survival, a collaboration between El Museo and JANUARY 23 Marta Vega sends letters dismissing Board and staff the Puerto Rican Studies Department of Livingston Established in 1885, the firehouse at 175 East 104th Street was leased College, Rutgers University (NJ) is on view. Curated members Hilda Arroyo Gillis, Carmen Bocachica by El Museo in 1975 and purchased in 1980 (Historical cover photo from George E. Calvert and Robert F. Wood, A Tribute to Engine Co. 53, by Carlos Osorio (artist), Prof. Ernesto J. Ruíz de la and Nitza Tufiño Breitman. Board member Eugene NYFD: 88 Years of Service to East Harlem from 104th Street, New York: Mata (Special Assistant for Cultural Affairs of the Calderón had been dismissed in mid-1974. Hiram Church of The Living Hope, 1973). Office of the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Maristany and Laura Moreno, also Board members, Rico in the United States), Prof. Rafael Rodríguez were not dismissed. MARCH 12 (Director of Puerto Rican Studies Department in JANUARY 24–FEBRUARY 18 Community Board 11 approves El Museo del Barrio’s Queens College), and Marta Vega, the exhibition “Siete” 7, Group exhibition of 7 Puerto Rican artists, application to expand by leasing the firehouse of includes 46 contemporary works by: Sigfrido presented at La Galleria II, is on view. former Engine Company 53, at 175 East 104th Street, Benitez, Jacqueline Biaggi, Samuel Cardona, Harry which ceased active use on October 1, 1973, and Cosme, Antonio de la Vega, Henry de León, Ricardo FEBRUARY 14 was surrendered in June 1974. Manhattan Borough González, Gilberto Hernández, Victor Linares, José A. [Arroyo] Gillis, Bocachica, and Tufiño bring a President, Percy Sutton, lobbied on behalf of López, León López, Samuel López, Andres Rodríguez lawsuit against Vega and the Amigos del Museo del El Museo; Hope Community Inc., an El Barrio civic Santos, Nelson Rosado, Edgar Ruíz Zapata, Nitza Barrio, Inc. for her dismissal of the Directors of the organization, championed El Museo’s application. Tufiño, Dennis Urrutia, Carmen Vega, William S. Vila, corporation, as well as violations of her fiduciary Upon taking control of the badly vandalized and Pedro Villarini. It is accompanied by a 28-page duties. firehouse, El Museo, with the help of volunteers from catalogue (noted by John Russell, “At El Museo del FEBRUARY 18–APRIL 18 Teatro 4 and neighborhood youth, make the building Barrio, a Mission and a Sense of Fun,” The New York Expresiones del Alma/Expressions of the Soul, is useable. The firehouse contains El Museo’s school Times, 15 August 1974: 28). on view. It includes Puerto Rican folk arts as well as of art and Teatro 4 by 1979–1980. In 1981, El Museo SEPTEMBER Taíno and African artifacts. begins seeking funding to rehabilitate the structure Quimbamba lists Hediberto Rodríguez as Curator and bring the building up to code; by 1985 the FEBRUARY 28–MARCH 31 of El Museo del Barrio. El Museo receives its first firehouse is no longer used, due to its dilapidated Two Person Exhibition, including works by Hiram funding from the City of New York’s Department of and dangerous condition, requiring major funding Maristany, is on view. Cultural Affairs in 1974–1975. to renovate. MARCH 1–APRIL 1 DECEMBER 31, 1974 Carlos Osorio, a one person exhibition, is on view. Marta Vega takes a one-year leave of absence.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo MARCH 15 of El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Natural History FEBRUARY 20–MARCH Marta Vega resigns as Director and president of (NY); the Library of Congress, the Smithsonican Nostalgia, developed by Marta Vega and coordinated Amigos del Museo del Barrio, Inc. Institute (Washington DC); the Archivo General de by Aníbal Cruz Ramos is a mixed-media group Puerto Rico, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña exhibition designed to capture New York Puerto APRIL 9 (San Juan, PR); and private collections. The exhibiton Ricans‘ memories of the Island. The exhibit includes [Arroyo] Gillis, Bocachica, and Tufiño resign from the includes photographs by Jack Delano, among others, the artists Jenaro “Heny” Álvarez, Luis Aponte, staff. Maristany serves as Acting Director from April 9, and is accompanied by a 24-page catalogue. Jacqueline Biaggi, Rosalía Cruz, David De Silva, 1975 until July 1977. Nydia Figueroa, José Gómez, Gilbert Hernández, DECEMBER 1, 1975–JANUARY 15, 1976 José Hernández, Maria Jameson, Jeannie Matos, MAY 28–JUNE 25 Exhibicion Navideña is on view. Photography Exhibition, curated by gallery Federico Mojíca, Laura Moreno, Melody Moreno, coordinator Gilberto Hernández, includes DECEMBER 5–DECEMBER 30 Sammy Quinoñes, Aníbal Cruz Ramos, Migdalia photographs by Stanley Banos, Manuel Dumont, 9 Puerto Rican artists, curated by Aníbal Cruz Ramos, Rivera, Segundo Rohena, Héctor Salas, Richard Roberto Bienv Espier, Julio Nazario, David Francisco Curator, El Museo del Barrio is on view. It includes Sánchez, Grace Vargas, and Mary Wilson; it also Ocampo, Rico, and José Antonio Vázquez. The paintings, drawings, prints and mixed media works, includes photographs by Vitín Avilés, Ernie Ensley, exhibition is accompanied by a 12-page catalogue, by Louis Aponte, Sigfrido Benítez, Jacqueline Biaggi, Frank Grillo (Machito), Luis Máquina, Hiram Maristany, and presented at La Galleria II. Luis R. Cancel, Maritza Dávila, Humberto Figueroa Federico Pagani, Charlie Palmieri, Segundo Rohena, Torres, Erick R. Lluch, Samuel Quiñones, and Raul Grace Vargas, Felipe Rivera of the Asociación de JUNE 6–AUGUST 25 Antonio Torres. It is accompanied by a 12-page Trabajadores Agrícolas, Mr. Noble and Betty Maingot 4th Anniversary Exhibition: Puerto Rican Graphic Arts catalogue, and presented at La Galleria II. of the Museum of the City of New York, and Life from the Permanent Collection is presented in the Magazine. Nostalgia is accompanied by a 70-page conference room of 1935 Third Avenue. 1976 catalogue. A new Board of Trustees, composed of artists, writers, JUNE 13–JULY 8 MARCH 26–APRIL 23 Homage to Casals is on view. educators and business professionals, is formed Exhibition of Sculpture is on view. after a New York Supreme Court hearing rules that JUNE 25 El Museo del Barrio’s staff cannot also act as trustees. JULY 30–AUGUST 27 Due to the pending lawsuit between the Board and We the People, coordinated by Cindy Hawes and Director, the interim Board cannot select a new FEBRUARY 6–FEBRUARY 27 Esau Quiroz, includes works by Abelardo Delgado, Director. Eventually, the lawsuit is dropped. Exhibition of women artists, curated by gallery Carole M. Byard, Cliff Joseph, Cork Lee, Esau Quiroz, coordinator Gilberto Hernández, includes 40 John Alan Fisher, John A. Taboada, Jorge Soto, Julio THROUGH OCTOBER 31 paintings, prints, and drawings by Isabel Álvarez Nazario, Patty Harso, Ramon Muñiz, and Tomie Arai. A Photo Essay: Pre-Colombiana Hasta 1940, Nazario, Imna Arroyo, Jacqueline Biaggi, Alicia Maury It is accompanied by an 18-page catalogue, and is organized by Marta Vega (Senior Rockefeller Rodríguez, Gladys Rosa, and Carmen Vega. It is presented at La Galeria II. Foundation Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) accompanied by a poster and 14-page catalogue, and presents photographic resources from the collections is presented at La Galeria II.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo SEPTEMBER 13–OCTOBER 22 JULY El Barrio-New York: Our History 1910–1969, a Jack Agüeros, poet, novelist, playwright and former photographic survey documenting the evolution co-Director of Cayman Gallery (with Nilda Peraza), of culture, heritage, and aesthetics in East Harlem, is appointed Director of El Museo del Barrio by the is created with information, documentation, and Board of Trustees. Agüeros serves as director from photographs provided by people in El Barrio. July 1977 until March 14, 1986. MID-1976 SEPTEMBER 9–OCTOBER 9 Children of El Barrio: Artists of the Future, curated by Confrontación: Ambiente y Espacio is on view. The the coordinator of the children’s workshop, Humberto exhibit includes artists, Cándida Álvarez, Louis Director Jack Agüeros in front of the Heckscher Building at 1230 Fifth Figueroa Torres, is presented. It is accompanied by a Aponte, Jacqueline Biaggi, Niles Cruz, José Luis Díaz Avenue between 104th and 105th Street (photo by Carlos V. Ortíz, “The 40-page catalogue. de Villegas, Marcos Dimas, José Rubén Gaztambide, Arts: Museo de la Gente,“ Nuestro, April 1978). Vilma Maldonado, Felipe Morales, Nestor Otero, OCTOBER 18–NOVEMBER 19 Wanda Quiñonez, María Riquelme, Jorge Soto, Santos (Religion) is on view. José Antonio Vásquez, and Pablo Vengoechea, the NOVEMBER 15–29 exhibition coordinator. It is accompanied by a 25- Mitología y Artes of Pre-Columbian Caribbean is page catalogue, postcards, and posters. on view. FALL DECEMBER 6, 1976–JANUARY 1977 Agüeros negotiates with Boys Harbor, a non-profit Aguinaldo: Un canto navideño, an exhibition of youth services agency, to relocate El Museo del traditional Puerto Rican Christmas offerings and Barrio to its present location—the main floor of the celebrations, is presented. Heckscher Building, a multi-tenant, city-owned property at 1230 Fifth Avenue between 104th and 1977 105th Streets. Already based on the second floor, Taller Boricua members help move El Museo del APRIL 22–JUNE 3 Barrio into the building. El Museo leases 12,000 Teatro: Hispanic Theatre in NYC (1420–1976), square feet and immediately begins renovation on presented by the Off Off Broadway Alliance, in 3,000 square feet of gallery space. cooperation with El Museo del Barrio, is on view. It is accompanied by a 32-page catalogue. WINTER Curator of El Museo del Barrio joins the Cultural Institutions Resurgimiento, Group (CIG) through a decree from Edward J. Koch, Petra Barreras del Río (El Diario La Prensa, Mayor of New York City. The Cultural Institutions 16 May 1978).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Group is an association of thirty-three cultural Linares, María Lino, Robert Llimós, Evelyn López de organizations housed in city buildings, including: The Guzmán, Laura Márquez, Peter Martínez, Anthony Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Morales, Felipe Morales, José A. Pizarro, Domingo Harlem, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Poublé, Pico Reynoso, Jaime Romano, Federico Ruíz, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Brooklyn Museum Fernando Salicrup, Fanny Sanín, Peter Schira, Jorge of Art, The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, The Museum Soto, Walter Terrazas, Francisco Toledo, and Ricardo of the City of New York, The American Museum of Torres Villalobos. The exhibition is accompanied by a Natural History, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and 38-page catalogue that contains the first appearance Wave Hill. of El Museo’s window logo, designed by artist Nestor Otero (see article by Vivien Raynor, “Art: Resurgence in El Barrio,” The New York Times, 28 April 1978). Resurgimento exhibition catalogue cover.designed by artist 1978 Nestor Otero. In an interview, Director Jack Agüeros states the JANUARY expanding vision of El Museo del Barrio. “Our focus is Agüeros begins El Museo del Barrio’s annual no longer limited to Puerto Ricans,” admits Agüeros. tradition of organizing a Three Kings Day Parade “We are too culturally rich to force ourselves into in East Harlem in which school groups from all five ghettoes of narrow nationalism. El Museo now wants boroughs participate. Artists and staff members to embody the culture of all of Latin America. New over the years contribute to props and decorations. York is the fourth or fifth largest Spanish speaking For example, Antonio Martorell creates the “gigante” city in the world, with people from every Spanish King Melchior. In 1996, Mario César Romero designs speaking country, and El Museo must reflect an ensemble of royal costumes. Pepe Figueroa leads everything that is Latino. We must look upon Latin the parade’s band. America as our Indian ancestors did. They did not APRIL 28–JUNE 30 see artificial boundaries dividing nations, but rather, Resurgimiento inaugurates El Museo del Barrio‘s saw an open world where they were free to travel new galleries in the Heckscher Building. A group from one place to another, pursuing their livelihood exhibition of contemporary Puerto Rican and Latin and mixing their culture” (Carlos V. Ortíz, “The Arts: American artists working in New York, it is curated by Museo de la Gente,” Nuestro, April 1978). Petra E. Barreras del Río. It includes works by Tony AUGUST 8–SEPTEMBER 30 Bechara, Mario Bencastro, Eloy Blanco, Fred Carrión, En Foco Documentation Portfolio No. 1: The Puerto Carlos Cevallos, [Papo] Colo, Rafael Colón Morales, Rican Experience, is presented. It includes 80 Luis Cruz Azaceta, Maritza Dávila, Nicolás Espósito, photographs by Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Roger Rafael Ferrer, Rafael Figueroa, Domingo García, John Cabán, and Felipe Dante, and is accompanied by a Isern, Claudio Juárez, Washington Ledesma, Victor El Museo’s second logo, based on a window in the Heckscher Building, 8-page brochure.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo OCTOBER 13–NOVEMBER 12 del Barrio’s first professional Curator. The galleries Recent Acquisitions of El Museo del Barrio is on view. are sometimes referred to as the Main Gallery, the It includes works by John Balossi, Eli Barreto, José Santos Gallery, and the F-stop Gallery. Caraballo, Harry Cosme, Jesse Fernández, Domingo FEBRUARY 27–APRIL 1 García, Gilberto Hernández, Luis Hernández Cruz, Bridge Between Islands: Retrospective Works by Manuel Hernández Acevedo, Epifanio Irizarry, Claudio Six Puerto Rican Artists in New York is presented. It Juárez, Carlos Osorio, Samuel Quiñones, Carlos Raquel includes 45 works by Olga Albizu, Tony Bechara, Eloy Rivera, Félix Rodriguez Báez, Radamés Santos, Jorge Blanco, Marcos Dimas, Evelyn López de Guzmán, Soto, Carmelo Sobrino, Nitza Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, and and Jorge Soto. It is accompanied by a 32-page Pedro Villarini. This exhibit is accompanied by a 30-page catalogue. The exhibit was originally presented at catalogue that notes the Permanent Collection numbers Henry Street Settlement-Louis Abrons Arts for Living over 600 works on paper and approximately 70 Center (November 3–December 1, 1978) and the Bronx paintings and sculptures, collected over the past 4 years. Ken Sofer, printmaking instructor, Manny Vega, ceramics Museum of the Arts (January 6–February 18, 1979). instructor and artist Anibal Chisa at the Escuela de Arte del Museo del Barrio (El Diario La Prensa, 16 May 1978). DECEMBER 8, 1978–FEBRUARY 25, 1979 APRIL 17–JUNE 7 Photographs of Mexico: Modotti/Strand/Weston, Personajes del Recuerdo: Recent Works by Domingo organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington García, is on view. The exhibit is accompanied by a D.C., is on view. It includes 37 photographs by Tina 13-page catalogue. Modotti, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, and is presented in conjunction with the citywide celebration, APRIL 27 “Mexico Today.” Santos de Palo, a permanent installation including over 94 santos, designed by Pablo Vengoechea, with DECEMBER 1978–JANUARY 1979 William Bowles opens. It is accompanied by a 48-page Fragmentos de mis Islas: Photographs by José Rubén catalogue. The santos were on rotating, but permanent Gaztambide, is presented. It includes 32 photographs, display, in various galleries, from 1979 to 1993. This and is accompanied by a 4-page brochure. exhibition was sited in a “special gallery, adjacent to the main gallery“ (Uptown Weekly News, May 12–18, Vol. 1 1979 No.9, 10). In November 1996, the santos were again Agüeros implements a series of capital improvements placed on long-term view until January 2001. and gallery expansions from the late 1970s through the early 1980s, with the help of artist and staff SPRING member Federico Ruíz and architect William Bowles. El Museo del Barrio opens an art school in the firehouse, with a faculty largely composed of local artists. A 32- Expansion and cataloguing of the Permanent Jorge Soto Sánchez, Lillian López, Ernesto Ruíz de la Matta, Collection begins. Gladys Peña is hired as El Museo page course catalogue from January 1980 lists Carmen and Irvine Mac Manus (El Diario La Prensa, 9 July 1979).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Biascoechea as the Director of the School of Art. A later SUMMER 23-page course catalogue, Escuela de Arte del Museo Portrayals, photographs by José Antonio Vázquez, del Barrio, 1981–1982, lists Pepe Castillo, Dean of Music; is presented in the F-stop Gallery. The exhibition Oscar Ciccone, Dean of Theatre Arts; and Jorge Soto, includes 20 works, and is accompanied by Dean of Visual Arts. In the Theatre Arts Department, the 4-page brochure. faculty included Norman Brisky, Ramón Concepción, and Eva de la O. In the Department of Visual Arts, the JUNE 10 El Museo del Barrio co-founds the annual Museum faculty included Papo Colo, Rafael Colón Morales, Taller Boricua logo (right) and members (left to right): Gilberto Gilberto Hernández, and Luis Colón Morales. In the Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue with ten major Hernández, Fernando Salicrup (standing), Jorge Soto Sánchez institutions, including: The Metropolitan Museum (seated), Josie Gonzalez, Marcos Dimas, Julio Quiñones, Wanda Department of Music, the faculty included Rosendo Quiñones, and Jesus Muñiz. (Invitation to Taller Boricua open house, at of Art, The Museum of the City of New York, Mount their new facilities on the 2nd floor of the Heckscher Building, Friday Acosta, Alberto (Tito) Cepeda, and Jorge Pérez Rolón. March 23, 1979). Faculty members include Brenda Alejandro, Henny Sinai Medical Center, The International Center of Álvarez, Luis Aponte, Margaret Ambrosini, Imna Arroyo, Photography, The Jewish Museum, The Cooper- SEPTEMBER 21 Petra Barreras del Río, Sigfrido Benítez, John Betancourt, Hewitt Museum, The Church of Heavenly Rest, The La Familia—The Latin Family, an exhibition of Jacqueline Biaggi, Carmen Biascoechea, Abe Breitman, National Academy of Design, The Solomon R. 7 Latino photographers, curated in collaboration Roy Brown, Luis Cancel, Angelo Cruz, Elizam Escobar, Guggenheim Museum, YIVO Institute for Jewish with En Foco— opens. It includes Luis Carlos Bernal, Humberto Figueroa, Adrián García, Domingo García, Research, and Goethe House. Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Naomi Castillo de Semonetti, José Rubén Gaztambide, Vita Giorgi, Jane Hedal, Adál AUGUST Frank Gimpaya, Frank Xavier Méndez, Joe Bernal Maldonado, Vilma Maldonado, Luis Meléndez, Felipe El Museo del Barrio gathers 2,300 petition signatures Ramos, and Raul Rubiera, and is accompanied by Morales, José Manuel Morales, Isabel Nazario, Julio from the local community, successfully halting the a 18-page catalogue. Nazario, Armindo Nuñez, Carlos Osorio, Manuel Otero, city’s sale of the firehouse that contained its art NOVEMBER 9, 1979–MARCH 3, 1980 Samuel Quiñones, Manuel Ramos Otero, Roberto school and theatre (David Vidal, “East Harlem Tries to Mujeres 9: A Photographic Exhibition, coordinated Reverón, Jorge Luis Rodríguez, Gladys Rohena, Félix Bar Auction of Old Firehouse,” The New York Times, by Evelyn Collazo, is on view in the F-stop Gallery. Romero, Gladys Rosa Rey, Edgar Ruíz Zapata, Ivan Silen, Thursday, August 16, 1979, B2). It includes Nydza Bajandas, Sylvia Arlene Calzada, Ken Sofer, María Somoza, Luis Soto, Merián Soto, Samuel Evelyn Collazo, Marili Forastieri, Perla de León, Tanco, Mario Toral, Ricardo Torres Villalobos, Gladys AUGUST 6–SEPTEMBER 28 Carmen Mojíca, Sophie Rivera, Josefa Vázquez, Toulis, Gus Toulis, Nitza Tufiño, Luis D. Vega, Manuel Paintings, Collages and Sculptures from the and Ivonne Villaquiran, and is accompanied by a Vega, and Pedro Velásquez. Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio are presented at the Arsenal Gallery. It highlights more 4-page brochure. JUNE 8–JULY 20 than 25 artists, including Domingo García, Fernando NOVEMBER 16, 1979–FEBRUARY 29, 1980 Jorge Soto Sánchez: Works on Paper 1974–1979, is Salicrup, Gilberto Hernández, Eli Barreto, Manuel José Morales: Paintings and Drawings, New York on view. The one-person exhibit of over 56 works is Hernández Acevedo, Jorge Soto, Carlos Osorio, Series # 1, a one-person exhibition of over 20 works, accompanied by a 30-page catalogue. Rafael Tufiño, and Pedro Villarini. is on view. It is accompanied by a 32-page catalogue.

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El Museo begins the decade by expanding its Sanín, Flavio Shiró, Enrique Tabara, Mario Toral, exhibitions, programs, and facilities, including the Gabriel Vargas, Gustavo Vejarano, Alfonso Villanueva, first renovation of El Museo’s galleries. The later and Oswaldo Viteri. The exhibition is accompanied by half of the decade is marred by an investigation a 6‑page brochure. of El Museo’s fiscal management and the freezing MARCH 26 El Museo’s funds, almost causing its closing. However, Board member George Aguirre helps Director Jack El Museo recovers after much of the staff work for Agüeros and El Museo del Barrio purchase the free and its director is dismissed. firehouse for $16,000 from the City of New York with a grant from Consolidated Edison and the 1980 special advocacy of Vice President for Community FEBRUARY and Government Relations, Edward W. Livingston, Graphics from the Permanent Collection of El Museo and City Councilman Robert Rodríguez. Aguirre’s del Barrio are presented at the Jersey City CETA office. leadership was also crucial to the growth of the permanent collection during this period. MARCH 3–APRIL Norberto Cedeño, La Mano Poderosa (The All=Powerful Homage to Casa de las Americas, Cuba, including MARCH 28 Hand of Christ), 1950, Painted wood, 11.5 x 5 x 3.5 inches, 56 works by graphic artists of 12 Latin American Teatro 4, a theater organization that spearheaded El Museo del Barrio countries, is on view. It includes Rodolfo Abularach, El Museo del Barrio’s renovations of the firehouse, Antonio H. Amaral, Lucy Angúlo, Humberto Aquino, opens their first production, Gimme Five, on the Félix Arauz, Fernando Bedoya, Arnold Belkin, Nora ground level. Beltrán, Rafael Bogarín, José Bracamonte, Susana Campos, Delia del Carril, Irene Cárdenas, René Castro, MAY Carlos Raquel Rivera’s, “Con su Permiso,” a Luis Chacón, Roberto Chao, Valentina Cruz, Juan retrospective of over 95 prints, drawings, Downey, Enrique Estrada, Antonio Frasconi, Cristina and paintings opens. It is accompanied by a Gálvez, José Gamarra, Alfredo León Gil, Vita Giorgi, 28‑page catalogue. Juan Gómez-Quirós, Lionel Gongora, Mário Gruber, Luis Guevara Moreno, Rafael Hastings, Lorenzo MAY–JUNE Homar, Juan Manuel Lugo, Mateo Manaure, Roberto Puerto Rico: Calor, 33 black and white photographs Matta, Francisco Mariotti, Antonio Martorell, Luis on heat-sensitive paper by John Betancourt, is Molinari, Teresa Morán, Gontran G. Netto, Luis Felipe on view. Noé, María Luisa Pacheco, Hernán Pazos, Regulo Pérez, Arthur Luiz Piza, José C. Ramos, Arturo Rivera, MAY 16–JUNE 30 Comadres: A Collective Environmental Exhibit by Santos installation (Sarah McFadden, ”Going Places, Part I: Or Herbert Rodríguez, José Rosa, Juan Salazar, Juan Beyond Museum Row,” Art in America, February 1980, 68; photo by Ten Women Artists, coordinated by Wanda María Steve Sloman).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Quiñones, is on view. It includes works by Susan SEPTEMBER 26–NOVEMBER 21 Ackoff Ortega, Nydza Bajandas, Marta León-Bonilla, Carteles de Navidad, 1950–1979, curated by Dori Collazo, Doris Cordero Ramirez, María Cortés, Jacqueline Biaggi, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, Maritza Dávila, Aurora Dias Jorgensen, Wanda María presents over 50 posters created by DivEdCo, Quiñones, and Diana Rivera, and is accompanied by a including Isabel Bernal, Rafael Delgado Castro, José 22‑page catalogue. Manuel Figueroa, Manuel Hernández Acevedo, Ismael Hidalgo, Lorenzo Homar, Antonio Maldonado, José The Golden Age of Spain exhibition catalogue cover. JULY–SEPTEMBER Meléndez Contreras, Rodolfo Morciglio, Carlos Fox and Intervale, Photographs by Perla de León, Osorio, Max Quiñones, Carlos Raquel Rivera, Rafael documenting a neighborhood in the South Bronx, is Tufiño, and Eduardo Vera Cortés. It is accompanied on view. It is accompanied by a 4‑page brochure and by an 8‑page brochure with a silkscreen by Antonio is presented in the F-stop Gallery. Maldonado. AUGUST Art Across the Park, an outdoor sculpture project held NOVEMBER 20 El Museo del Barrio holds a ribboncutting ceremony, in upper Central Park, including the works of 20 artists, celebrating the purchase of the firehouse. concludes at El Museo del Barrio, where 3 artists’ works are installed in the Fifth Avenue Courtyard. The NOVEMBER project is conceived by David Hammons and curated Untitled/Anonymous: Paintings by Colo, a one- by Horace Brockington and Gylbert Coker. person exhibition of almost 50 works, opens. It is accompanied by a 32‑page catalogue. AUGUST–SEPTEMBER From Museo Rayo, El Museo del Barrio presents prints by Omar Rayo, from the Permanent Collection 1981 of Museo Rayo (Roldanillo Valle, Colombia). It is El Museo joins the American Association of Museums. accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. FEBRUARY 27–MAY 22 AUGUST–SEPTEMBER Grand Central: Notes from the Underground presents Petroglifos de Boriquén, a portfoilio of 20 photographs by Julio Nazario. The exhibition is photographs by Héctor Méndez Caratini, is presented. accompanied by a 4‑page brochure. SEPTEMBER 26–NOVEMBER 21 FEBRUARY 27–MAY Images of Panama/Portobelo II, photographs by Images of Villarini, presenting 23 paintings by Roger Cabán, is presented in the F-stop Gallery. It is Pedro Villarini, is on view. It is acompanied by a 28‑page catalogue. Octopus, an artists’ collaboration, organized by Papo Colo (photo Papo accompanied by a 4‑page brochure. Colo: Will, Power & Desire, Painting Sculpture Drawing, Performance 1976–1986, New York: Exit Art and Rosa Esmar Gallery, 1986 ).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo MAY 29–AUGUST 31 JUNE 19, 20, 21 Auto Retratos: A Photographic Exhibition, curated by The National Latino Film & Video Festival is Roger Cabán, and organized by El Museo del Barrio presented. in association with Casa Aboy, is on view. It includes SEPTEMBER 1–OCTOBER 15 photographs by Adál, Ramón Aboy, Nydza Bajandas, Silkscreen posters by José Rosa is on view. John Bentancourt, Roger Cabán, Sylvia Arlene Calzada, Pablo Cambo, Alberto Caputo, Evelyn NOVEMBER 6, 1981–FEBRUARY 5, 1982 Collazo, Héctor M. Méndez Caratini, Jorge Ramos Marcos Dimas: The Voyager, curated by Gladys Peña, Caro, José Carrero, Linda Ferrer, René Gelpi, Frank including 29 paintings, ink drawings, and mixedmedia Gimpaya, Alan Hirsh, Marco Kalisch, Ramón Korff, assemblages, is on view. It is accompanied by a George Malavé, Frank X. Méndez, Antonio Mendoza, 34‑page catalogue. Eugene Merinov, Rafael Ramírez, Sandra Reus-Bewer, Charles Biansiny Rivera, Sofía Rivera, Lisl Steiner, NOVEMBER 6, 1981–JANUARY 22, 1982 The Puerto Rican Diaspora: A Preview Exhibition Tony Vasquez, and María Vélez. The exhibition is of Photographs by Frank Espada is on view. It is accompanied by a 33‑page catalogue and it is later accompanied by a 4‑page brochure. Sketch of proposed renovation of the Dr. Ricardo Alegría Gallery of pre- presented at Casa Aboy, San Juan, Puerto Rico Columbian Art, by designer William Bowles. (September 25–October 31, 1981). 1982 MAY 29–AUGUST 31 MARCH 12–MAY 14 The Golden Age of Spain: Theatre and Period Los Taínos: A Visual Tradition, curated by Gladys Dress, curated by Gladys Peña, includes prints from Peña, is presented. It includes works by José Aviles, El Museo del Barrio, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Luis Cancel, Rafael Colon-Moráles, Marcos Dimas, the New York Public Library (NY); Yale University Carlos Gonzalez-Ortiz, Matilde Perez de Silva, Wanda Art Gallery (New Haven); the Library of Congress Maria Quiñoes, Jorge Soto Sanchez, and Nitza Tufiño, (Washington DC); the British Museum, and the and is accompanied by a 27‑page catalogue. MAY Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Accompanied 7, 8, 9 The Second National Latino Film & Video by a 40‑page catalogue, this celebration of art, Festival, coordinated by Lillian Jimenez, opens with a drama and literature of 16th and 17th century Spain retrospective of works by Brazilian filmmaker, Helena commemorates the three-hundred year anniversary Solberg-Ladd. of Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s death, and is a collaboration between El Museo MAY 28–AUGUST 14 del Barrio, Ballet Hispanico and INTAR Hispanic Myrna Báez’s: Diez Años de Gráfica y Pintura, American Theater. 1971–1981, Jacqueline Biaggi, Curator, is on view. The New East Wing and Recent Acquisitions exhibition catalogue cover.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Báez’s first solo retrospective includes 29 graphics Dancing by Ramsey Najm, November 19–December FEBRUARY 25 and 25 paintings, and is accompanied by a 31); the Art History Gallery [Hallway], where a José Carrero: “Obsession With A Laughing Mask,” a 30‑page catalogue. The exhibition is later presented permanent didactic installation of Puerto Rican Art series of photoweavings, accompanied by an 8-page at the Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA) History was to be installed; and the East Gallery, catalogue, is presented in the Theatre Gallery. September–October 1982; and the Chase Manhattan which highlights 17 recent acquisitions, chosen Bank of Puerto Rico, December 1982. by Curators Gladys Peña and Jacqueline Biaggi, FEBRUARY 25–MAY 1 including works by Myrna Báez, Tony Bechara, Eloy Blanco: Faces & Figures, A Retrospective is SUMMER [Papo] Colo, Rafael Colón Morales, Luis Cruz Azaceta, presented in the East Gallery. Curated by Gladys Octopus, organized by Papo Colo, is presented in Marcos Dimas, Raul Farco, Rafael Ferrer, Domingo Peña, the exhibit includes nearly 60 works and is the Fifth Avenue courtyard of El Museo. This project García, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, José Morales, Carlos accompanied by a 16‑page catalogue. hinges together 4 x 8 foot plywood sheets into a 140- Raquel Rivera, Fernando Salicrup, Carmelo Sobrino, foot long artists’ book that wraps around the patio MAY 13–AUGUST 10 and Jorge Soto. Works by Héctor Méndez Caratini in an enormous, standing accordion. Over 30 days, Rafael Ferrer: Impassioned Rhythms, a one-person are shown in the F-stop Gallery, and in the Theatre artists and poets create artwork “pages.” Participants exhibition including 40 paintings, drawings, and Gallery, 16th-, 17th-and 18th-century hand-colored include Vito Acconci, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, mixed-media constructions, is presented. Organized etchings are shown. This opening is accompanied by Catalina Parra, Reverend Pedro Pietri, and Juan by the Laguna Gloria Art Museum (Austin, TX), it is a 24-page catalogue. Sánchez, among others. accompanied by a 36‑page catalogue. JULY 30–SEPTEMBER 30 1983 MAY 20–22 Enrique Buenaventura: Drawings/Dibujos is on view. The Third National Latino Film & Video Festival, JANUARY 12–FEBRUARY 27 curated by Lillian Jiménez and coordinated by OCTOBER 28, 1982–FEBRUARY 11, 1983 Video at El Museo: Part II, including El Diálogo by Aurora Flores, opens. It is accompanied by an Children of the Darkness: Rafael Colón Morales: Karen Ranucci is presented. 8‑page catalogue. Paintings 1972–1982, curated by Gladys Peña, FEBRUARY 25 is presented. A retrospective of 48 works, the JUNE 17–AUGUST 17 Thirty Pictures: Photographs by Marco Kalisch, exhibition is accompanied by a 32‑page catalogue. Sanctus, a video installation by Edín Velez, is curated by Gladys Peña, and accompanied by a presented. NOVEMBER 19 23‑page catalogue, is presented in the F-stop Gallery. MID-1983 The New East Wing and Recent Acquisitions FEBRUARY 25 celebrates the opening of renovated galleries. Three Women/Three Islands, curated by Evelyn Portraits: The Puerto Rican Series, curated by Gladys Exhibits include the Dr. Ricardo Alegría Gallery of Collazo, is presented. The exhibit includes Peña, opens in the West Gallery. It presents 48 Caribbean Pre-Columbian Art [now known as the photographs by Lilia Fontana, Frieda Medin Ojeda, photographs by Adál Alberto Maldonado, and is Alegría Gallery]; the Video Gallery (which presents and Sophie Rivera, and is accompanied by an accompanied by a 25‑page catalogue. Video at El Museo, including Lima by Juan Downey, 8‑page catalogue. Video Poems by Cecilia Vicuña, and Breaking Street

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo OCTOBER 21, 1983–JANUARY 8, 1984 MAY 18–JULY 29 Paula Heredia, León Hirszman, ICAIC, Eduardo The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Themes in The Survival Humble Visions, paintings and mixed media from Latorre, Félix Limardo, Ramiro Locayo, Claire of a People, An Exhibition of Photographs by Frank the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, is McCanus, Alan McClade, José A. Martínez Suarez, Espada, is presented. The exhibition includes on view. Silvia Morales, Pepón Osorio, Karen Rannuci, Sergio 150 photographs, and is accompanied by a Renan, Humberto Ríos, Pedro A. Rivera, Toshi MAY 18–JULY 29 16‑page brochure. Saki, Merián Soto, Regina Vater, Pastor Vega, John Escalio, by Pepón Osorio, is presented. The project D. Wise, Ricardo Wullicher, and Susan Zeig, and is OCTOBER 21, 1983–JANUARY 8, 1984 includes sculptural paintings inspired by Clemente accompanied by a 10‑page brochure. Louis Agassiz Fuerte: Vaulted Birds, is on view. The Soto Velez’s 1937 book. exhibition includes 50 works from the Academy SEPTEMBER 7–OCTOBER 31 AUGUST 2–SEPTEMBER 2 of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, PA) by the late Mind Harbors: Works of Art from Nicaragua, Cuba, ¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour 1984, 19th-century/early 20th-century painter of birds. It is Puerto Rico and Invited Artist from Argentina, juried by Jack Agüeros, El Museo del Barrio; John A. accompanied by a 32‑page catalogue-calendar. curated by Rafael Colón Morales and Susan Mahey, San Antonio Museum of Art; and Edmundo Schweitzer (Assistant Curator), in collaboration 1984 M. Rodríguez, Plaza de la Raza, debuts. The travelling with Joseph Papp and the Festival Latino en Nueva exhibition includes artists Francisco Alvarado-Juárez, York, (organized by Oscar Ciccone) is presented. The JANUARY 20–MARCH 18 Alfredo Arreguin, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Roberto Borboa, exhibition includes works by Carlos Alonso, Faustino Francisco Oller: A Realist Impressionist, curated Alberto Castagna, Ramón Delgadillo, Daniel Gálvez, Altamirano, Fernando Altamirano, José F. Altamirano, by Marimar Benítez for Museo de Arte de Ponce Nivia González, Robert González, José Jaramillo, Luis Luis Alvarado, Isabel Alvárez Mojíca, Eduardo (Puerto Rico) is presented. A retrospective of work LeRoy, César Martínez, Esperanza Martínez, Juan Arana, Rodolfo Arellano, Imna Arroyo, Eloy Blanco, by the nineteenth-century Puerto Rican painter (b. Melé, Alvaro Peñarette, Louie F. Pérez, Gamaliel Alejandro Cabrera, Julia Chavarría, Milagros Chavarría, 1833–d. 1917) commemorates the 150th anniversary Ramírez, Tony Rio, Freddy Rodríguez, Daniel Serra- Rafael Colón Morales, Félix Cordero, Marcos Dimas, of his birth. Including 73 works, the exhibition is Badué, Luis Stand, and Jesse Trevino. Nelson Domínguez, Franklin Flores Silva, Carlos accompanied by an 236‑page catalogue. AUGUST 10–AUGUST 20 García, Domingo García, Mercedes Graham, Miriam MAY 18–SEPTEMBER 9 The National Latino Film and Video Festival, and Guevara, Olivia Guevara, Olga Madariaga, Vilma Latin Times, curated by Sophie Rivera, is presented in Latin American Film Showcase, coordinated by Jaime Maldonado Reyes, Carlos Marenco, Pablo Mayorga, the F-stop Gallery. It includes photographs by Nydza Barrios and Diego Echeverría, is presented at The Carlos Osorio, Gustavo Perez Acosta, Elena Pineda, Bajandas, Charles Biasiny-Rivera, George Malavé, Public Theater, New York. It includes films by Suzana Rosa Pineda, Rafael, Jorge Luis Rodríguez, Ricardo Tony Mendoza, Carmen Quesada, Sophie Rivera, Ani Amaral, Skip Blumberg, Patti Bradshaw, Cine-Ojo Rodríguez, Fernando Salicrup, Mariana Samsom, González Rivera-DaCuezo, and Naomi Simonetti, and Collective, Centro Cultural Cándido Méndes, Diego Juan Sánchez, Tomas Sánchez, Eler Servino Fonseca, is accompanied by a 22‑page catalogue. Echeverría, Sandra Eleta, Roberto Evangelista, Film Jorge Soto, Carlos Sueños, and Yelba Ubau. It is and TV collective of the Radio Venceremos system/ accompanied by a 16‑page catalogue. FMLN, Juan E. García, Orlando Godoy, Guy Heller,

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo FALL Marcos Dimas, Jorge Drosten, Liliana Durán, East Los FEBRUARY–OCTOBER Faces of the Sixties: Frank Espada opens. It Streetscapers, Diane Gamboa, Nivia González, Benito Crafts from Puerto Rico, works from the Permanent includes 43 photographs, and is accompanied by a Huerta Lozano, Julio Larraz, Louis Leroy, Eduardo Collection, is presented. 6‑page brochure. Lozano, Cesar Martínez, Yolanda Mesa, Alberto Mijangos, Anthony Ortega, Gamaliel Ramírez, Pico FEBRUARY–OCTOBER DECEMBER 1984–FEBRUARY 1985 Reinoso, Tony Río, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Gilberto Graphics from Latin America, including prints and Miralda: Santa Comida (Holy Food), is on view. Ruiz, Juan Sánchez, Marta Sánchez, Fanny Sanín, works by graphic artists, is on view. The exhibition of altars created by Spanish artist Jesse Trevino, and Frederico Vigíl. The exhibit is FEBRUARY–OCTOBER Miralda is dedicated to six Orisha-archetypes. It is accompanied by a 32‑page catalogues. Art and Crafts: Photographs, an exhibition of accompanied by a 64‑page catalogue, and is also Permanent Collection images documenting Puerto presented at Miami-Dade Community College’s South NOVEMBER Rican and Latin American arts and crafts, is Campus Art Gallery (March 1985). Bess Myerson, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, freezes El Museo del Barrio’s presented. 1985 funding. The Department of Cultural Affairs begins MID-1986 investigations into El Museo’s fiscal management. APRIL 26–AUGUST 31 Life in El Barrio, photographs from the Permanent Collection, is on view. Tony Bechara, Recent Paintings 1980–1985, a one- 1986 person exhibition (and the first exhibition entirely MARCH 14 dedicated to abstract art held at El Museo del WINTER El Museo del Barrio’s Board of Trustees dismisses Barrio) is presented. The exhibit is accompanied by a The funding freeze forces staff layoffs. Curator, artist, Jack Agüeros. Rafael Colón Morales serves as Acting 10‑page catalogue. and art historian Rafael Colón Morales volunteers Director during March and April. to work without pay in order to keep the institution SPRING open and protect its permanent collection. Colón APRIL The National Latino Film & Video Showcase opens. Morales becomes Acting Director as the investigation Robert Esnard, Deputy Mayor to Mayor Edward I. OCTOBER 11, 1985–JANUARY 27, 1986 of El Museo del Barrio’s finances continues. Koch, appoints Gladys Peña as Interim Director of El Museo del Barrio. (By this time, Peña is Director ¡Mira! The Tradition Continues: The Canadian Club JANUARY–OCTOBER of Public Arts Programs for the New York City Arts Hispanic Art Tour, juried by Jack Agüeros, El Museo Taíno Artifacts from the Collection, an exhibition Commission.) Peña serves as Interim Director from del Barrio; Jim Lichon, Hyde Park Art Center; and of pre-Columbian artifacts from Puerto Rico, is April to October 1986. Sister Karen Boccalero, Self-Help Graphics, debuts. presented. The travelling exhibition includes works by Julio JUNE–SEPTEMBER Alpuy, Francisco Alvarado-Juárez, Martha Chávez, FEBRUARY–OCTOBER Mango Mambo, a photographic exhibition, is on view. Félix Cordero, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Ramon Delgadillo, Two by New, a group exhibition of 13 artists, is on view.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo OCTOBER 4 FEBRUARY 4–SEPTEMBER APRIL 23–MAY 3 Petra Barreras del Río, Grants Manager at the Painterly Touch, paintings from the Permanent Films With A Purpose: A Puerto Rican Experiment New York State Council on the Arts, is appointed Collection, is on view. in Social Films is presented. Produced by Exit Art, Executive Director of El Museo del Barrio by the directed by Jeanette Ingberman, with consultant MARCH 12–APRIL 12 Board of Trustees. Barreras rebuilds El Museo Jay Leyda and organizers/researchers Luis Rosario A Decade of En Foco, presented by The Bronx del Barrio’s staff and undertakes important new Albert and Inés Mongil Echandi, the project includes Museum of the Arts and En Foco, Inc., co-curated by initiatives for the care and management of the screenings and events held at The Museum of Charles Biasiny-Rivera and Holly Block, is presented. collection. She also establishes ongoing relationships Modern Art, The Collective for Living Cinema, New The exhibition highlights 102 photographs by 57 with the Ford Foundation and the National Arts York University, El Museo del Barrio, and The Bronx artists, including Gilbert Acevedo, Nydza Bajandas, Stabilization Program. Barreras serves as director Museum of the Arts. It is accompanied by a poster- John Betancourt, Louis Carlos Bernal, Dawoud Bey, from October 1986 until March 1993. program. Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Robert C. Buitrón, Roger OCTOBER 24, 1986–JANUARY 25, 1987 Cabán, Silvia Arlene Calzada, Pablo Cambó, Evelyn APRIL 30–SEPTEMBER 15 Francisco Alvarado-Juárez: Native/Stranger: Painting Collazo, Phil Dante, Jack Delano, Pablo Delano, Posters for Films 1950–1979, curated by Rafael Colón & Constructions 1983–1986, curated by Rafael Colón Robert Espier, María Angelica Fernández, Elsa Flores Morales, is on view. It includes 46 posters by Isabel Morales, is on view. The one-person exhibition is Almarz, Carol Foresta, José Gálvez, José Rubén Bernal, Felix Bonilla Norat, José Manuel Contreras, accompanied by a 32‑page catalogue. Gaztambide, Frank Gimpaya, Glen Goldstein, Carlos Juan Díaz, Lorenzo Homar, Antonio Maldonado, José Guzmán, Hermán Guzman, Reynaldo Hernández, Meléndez Contreras, Carlos Osorio, Carlos Raquel OCTOBER 24, 1986–JANUARY 25, 1987 Carlos del Santos Heyward, Kenro Izu, Carlos Rivera, Julio Rosado del Valle, Rafael Tufiño, and José Gopar: Homage to García Lorca in New York, de Jesús, Perla de León, George Malavé, Frieda Eduardo Vera Cortés, and is accompanied by a a one-person exhibition of paintings and prints, is Medín, Frank X. Méndez, Héctor Méndez Caratini, 15-page catalogue. APRIL 30: Graphic Prints from presented. It is accompanied by a 10‑page catalogue. Antonio Mendoza, Carlos Arnaldo Meyners, Carmen Puerto Rico, highlighting prints from the Permanent NOVEMBER 20, 1986–JANUARY 25, 1987 Mojíca, Julio Nazario, Edwin Pérez, Julio Piedra, Collection, opens. Sophie Rivera: All Hallows Eve, a one-person Rafael Ramírez Aviles, Sophie Rivera, Rivera da OCTOBER 9–DECEMBER 6 exhibition of photographs, curated by Rafael Colón Cueva, Fernando Rodríguez, Daniel José Salazar, From the Center: Eugènia Balcells: A Video Morales, is presented. It is accompanied by a Juan Sánchez, Christina Santiago, Luis Servedio- Installation, curated by Rafael Colón Morales, is 9‑page catalogue. Morales, Naomi Simonetti, Coreen Simpson, Juma presented. It is accompanied by a 30‑page catalogue. Santos, Ricardo Valderde, John N. Váldez, José 1987 Antonio Vázquez, Josefa Vázquez, Tony Vélez, Rene OCTOBER 10–DECEMBER 6 M. Verdugo, and Ramón Vila. The exhibition is Carlos Osorio: Nueva York-Puerto Rico, Paintings FEBRUARY 4–SEPTEMBER accompanied by a 44-page catalogue. 1956–1984, curated by Rafael Colón Morales, is Images of Latin Community: The Lower East Side on view. The exhibit includes 40 paintings and 1956–1986, photographs and documentation of Hispanic life on the Lower East Side, is on view.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo mixed media works, and 41 works on paper, and is exhibition includes works by Myrna Arocho, Myrna accompanied by a 32‑page catalogue. Báez, Clarissa Biaggi, Sylvia Blanco, Rebecca Castrillo, Lorraine de Castro, Susana Espinosa, Margarita DECEMBER 1987–MARCH 1988 Fernández Zavala, Yolanda Fundora, Rosita Haeussler, Puerto Rican Painting: Between Past and Present, Toni Hambleton, Carmen Esther Hernández, Susana curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez, is presented. The Herrero, Lizette Lugo, Liza Miranda Johnson, Maria travelling exhibit includes 62 works by Roberto de Mater O’Neill, María Antonia Ordoñez, Betsy Padín, Alberty, Myrna Báez, Luis Germán Cajiga, Paul Marta Pérez, Mercedes Quiñones, Nora Rodríguez Camacho, Jaime Carrero, Wilfredo Chiesa, Carlos Vallés, Noemí Ruíz, Maria Emilia Somoza, and Collazo, Lope Max Díaz, Ramón Frade, Domingo Miriam Zamparelli. It is accompanied by a 40‑page García, Manuel Hernández Acevedo, Luis Hernández catalogue and is also presented at the Museum Cruz, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Irizarry, Santos of Modern Art of Latin America, Organization of René Irizarry, Augusto Marín, José Meléndez American States, Washington, D.C. (May 5–May Contreras, José R. Oliver, Francisco Oller, Mari 28), and Galería Caribe, San Juan (September 21– Mater O’Neill, Miguel Pou, Nick Quijano, Carlos Emblems of His City: José Campeche and San Juan. October 9). Raquel Rivera, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Francisco Rodón, Felíx Rodríguez Báez, Jaime Romano, Juan JUNE–SEPTEMBER Rosado, Julio Rosado del Valle, Noemí Ruíz, Samuel Emblems of His City: José Campeche and San Sánchez Herrera, Julio Suárez, José A. Torres Juan, curated by Dr. Arturo V. Dávila and Susana Martinó, and Rafael Tufiño. It is accompanied by a Torruella Leval, is presented. The exhibition includes 128‑page catalogue. 13 paintings by Campeche, as well as period maps, documents, maquettes, costumes, accessories, 1988 books, photographs, musical instruments, and decorative artworks, and is accompanied by a MARCH 26–MAY 22 37‑page catalogue. Rafael Montañez Ortiz: Years of the Warrior 1960-Years of the Psyche 1988, curated by Rafael Colón Morales, OCTOBER 7–DECEMBER 4 presents the first major retrospective of the vanguard Edgar Franceschi: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, artist and founder of El Museo del Barrio. The exhibit A Survey of Work 1980–1988, curated by Rafael is accompanied by a 63-page catalogue. Colón Morales, presents a solo exhibition of paintings, Rafael Moñtanez Ortiz’s Years of the Warrior 1960–Years of the Psyche 1988. sculptural, and mixed-media works. The exhibit is JUNE 14–SEPTEMBER 4 accompanied by a 20‑page catalogue. Growing Beyond: Women Artists from Puerto Rico, curated by Susana Torruella Leval, is on view. The

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo NOVEMBER 4-DECEMBER 10 Santiago Andújar, José Luis Avilés, Bienvenido Ayala, SEPTEMBER 15, 1989–APRIL 15, 1990 UP Tiempo! Performing & Visual Artists of the Martín Ayala, Ramón Cepeda, Marta de la Cruz, Rosa Taller Alma Boricua: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Americas, a collaboration with Creative Time, is Elena Egipciáco, Pablo Falcón, Pura García, Mercedes the Puerto Rican Workshop: 1969–1989, curated presented. The project includes performances by Gil, Andrés Gutiérrez, Gregorio Marzán, José Eduardo by Diógenes Ballester, is presented. The exhibit ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), Chico Pichardo, Elisa Pérez, Antonio Ramírez, Francisco documents the chronology and impact of the Alvárez & Nosotros, Al Angeloro, Norma Bessouet, Rivera, Iraida y Luis Rivera, José Rodríguez, William artists’ collective, whose history is closely related to Josely Carvalho, George Cisneros, The Eddie Torres Roldón Aguilera, Osvaldo Sesti, and Rosa y Jesús that of El Museo del Barrio. It is accompanied by a Latin Dance Company, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Vega, and is accompanied by a 30‑page catalogue. 91‑page catalogue. Gronk, Roberto Juárez, Kajou, Marcos Kurtycz, Willy “Ninja” Leake, Marcelo Llorens, Los Angeles Poverty 1989 Department (LAPD), James Luna, Manuel Alum MARCH 1-MAY 14 Dance Company, Marisela Notre, Nuyorican Poets’ ¡Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour III, Café Revisited, Orquesta Broadway, Catalina Parra, curated by Susana Torruella Leval, Ricardo Pau- Jonas dos Santos, El Salvador Media Project, Manny Llosa (Associate Professor, Miami-Dade Community Vega, and Donald Woods. It is accompanied by a College-South Campus and contributing editor to Art 24‑page catalogue. International), and Inverna Lockpez (artist and gallery NOVEMBER 18-NOVEMBER 23 director), opens. The travelling exhibition includes The National Latino Film & Video Festival, directed works by Rodolfo Abularach, Carlos Alfonzo, María by Lillian Jiménez, opens. It is accompanied by a Brito-Avellana, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Tony Bechara, 22-page catalogue, and is presented at Columbia Mario Bencomo, Humberto Calzada, Rimer Cardillo, Cinema, New York. Mel Casas, Enrique Castro-Cid, Alfredo Ceibal, Pérez Celis, Paloma Cernuda, Edgar Franceschi, Ismael DECEMBER 16, 1988–FEBRUARY 19, 1989 Frigerio, Virginia Jaramillo, Ramiro Llona, Tony ¡Folklore! Traditional Crafts from Cuba, The Mendoza, Roberto Gil de Montes, Miguel Padura, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, Made in New Catalina Parra, Liliana Porter, Paul Sierra, Rafael York, is on view. A presentation of The Association Soriano, Jorge Tacla, Mario Torál, Rubén Trejo, Patssi of Hispanic Arts, Inc., in collaboration with El Museo Váldez, and Francisco Vidal. It is accompanied by a del Barrio, the exhibit is curated by Ana Mercedes 79‑page catalogue. Negrón, Director of the Folk Arts Program, AHA, and Rafael Colón Morales, Curator, El Museo. It features AUGUST musical instruments, toys, masks, bobbin lace, sewing, El Museo del Barrio receives a multi-year Ford santos, Afro-Caribbean religion, and decorative Foundation Grant for collections care and arts. The exhibition includes works by Angel Allende, management.

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The second renovations on the galleries are MAY 11–JULY 1 complete, the collection area is improved, the theatre Visual Insights on Paper, curated by Carlos Ortíz and murals are renovated and restored, and financial Sueños, is presented. It features prints and drawings stability is achieved. A new logo is introduced along from the Permanent Collection. with the first modifications to El Museo’s mission, to much controversy from the community, which JULY–OCTOBER continues through the next decade. Navia, Suárez, Rosario: Three Contemporary Sculptors, curated by Nelson Rivera Rosario, is on 1990 view. The exhibition includes works by Antonio Navia, Jaime Suárez, and Melquiades Rosario Sastre, and is In bi-weekly discussions that last over a year, also presented at Museo de la Universidad de Puerto El Museo del Barrio’s staff and Board draft the Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. The exhibition is institution’s first long-range, strategic plan to accompanied by a 39‑page catalogue. stabilize the institution. Under the leadership of Chair Michael Janicki (1990–1997), and subsequent Chairs JULY 20–SEPTEMBER 16 Estrellita Brodsky (1997–2000), and Tony Bechara Art Underground: A Public Art Project by Nitza (1997 to present), El Museo del Barrio expands and Tufiño is on view. diversifies its Board of Trustees to include non- Latinos and Latinos of all national backgrounds. NOVEMBER 2–DECEMBER Susana Torruella Leval, former Curator of the Museum Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) is hired Art In Mexico, a travelling exhibition curated by as Chief Curator. El Museo hires its first full-time Elizabeth Ferrer, and organized and circulated Registrar, Marcela Clavijo. by ICI (Independent Curators, Inc.), is presented. The project highlights 55 works by 17 artists, MAY 4–JULY 1 including Eugenia Vargas Daniels, Julio Galán, Nuestra Visión presents works by more than 1,000 Flor Garduño, Sergio Hernández, Estela Hussong, multicultural elementary school children of New Francisco Castro Lenero, Salvador Lutteroth, York City who participated in the 1989–1990 series Rocío Maldonado, Alberto Montano, Adolfo Patino, of hands-on-workshops with El Museo’s Artists-in- Rubén Ortíz, Georgina Quintana, Adolfo Riestra, Residence, Pepón Osorio. It is accompanied by a Ray Smith, Gerardo Suter, Germán Venegas, and brochure, and is presented in Washington, D.C. Nahum Zenil. The exhibition was part of a citywide celebration of Mexico and was accompanied by an El Museo staff badge photos: Brenda Alejandro (Education Curator); Petra Barreras del Río (Director); Marcela Clavijo (Registrar); Pepón illustrated catalogue. Osorio (Artist-in-Residence); Donna Perkins (Security); Miguel Ramos (Maintenance Supervisor); Federico Ruíz (Director of Operations); Susana Torruella Leval (Chief Curator).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo NOVEMBER 1990–MARCH 1991 MARCH-AUGUST 1991 Another Face: Mexican Masks in El Museo del Portfolio Commemorating the First Centennial of the Barrio’s Permanent Collection, is presented. Curated Abolition of Slavery is presented. It includes 9 prints by Susana Toruella Leval, it is accompanied by a by 9 artists: José R. Alicea, Augusto Marín, Myrna 39‑page catalogue. Báez, Rafael López del Campo, Antonio Maldonado, Antonio Martorell, Jaime Romano, José A. Rosa 1991 Castellanos, and José Antonio Torres Martinó. The collection storage area is renovated and Letter from Javier Morales, El Museo’s Accountant and U.S. Army MAY 2–AUGUST 4 Reservist, from “Operation Desert Storm.” improved. Accountant Javier Morales, a member of Con to’ los Hierros: A Retrospective of the Work of the Army Reserves, is called up for duty in Operation Pepón Osorio, curated by Susana Torruella Leval, Desert Storm. Eventually, he returns safely to his presents a retrospective of Osorio’s multi-media position at El Museo. projects. The exhibit is accompanied by a 44-page JANUARY 24-MARCH 15 catalogue. International Show for the End of World Hunger, MAY 17–MAY 24 a travelling exhibition, organized by Artists to End Cine de Mestizaje: The National Latino Film and Hunger, Inc., is presented. It highlights 41 works by 41 Video Festival, curated by Chon Noriega and Marlina artists for auction including Horst Antes, Arman, Luis González-Tamrong, is presented at The Anthology F. Benedit, Joseph Beuys, Fernando Botero, Louise of Film Archives, New York. It includes works by 80 Bourgeois, Bard Breivik, Michael Buthe, Santiago Latino film and video artists from throughout the Cárdenas, Sandra Chia, Francisco Clemente, José Luis United States and Puerto Rico, and is accompanied Cuevas, Walter Dahn, Agnes Denes, Antonio Dias, by a 24‑page catalogue. Omar Galliani, Leon Golub, Betty Goodwin, Richard Pepón Osorio’s El Velorio, installed in Con to’ los hierros (photo by Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin, Jorg Immendorff, Per WINTER 1991–AUGUST 2, 1992 Tony Vélez). Kirkeby, Ernesto León, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Recent Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection Helmut Middendorf, Marta Minujín, Robert Morris, is on view. The exhibit highlights 25 contemporary Germán Ortíz Cadena, Pepón Osorio, Arnaldo Roche- Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, A.R. Penck, Robert works recently acquired with funds from The Ford Rabell, Tony Vélez, Nitza Tufiño, and Juan Sánchez. Rauschenburg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Foundation, The Metropolitan Life Foundation, the As well, it highlights selections from major gifts of Susan Rothenberg, Antonio Saura, Antonio Seguí, National Endowment for the Arts, and the De Witt traditional and pre-Columbian art, including over Francisco Toledo, Andy Warhol, William T. Wiley, Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund by Cándida Alvarez, 90 Puerto Rican santos de palo from the Walter and and Bill Woodrow, and is accompanied by a Diógenes Ballester, Robert Coane, Edgar Franceschi, Lucille Fillin Collection, and 50 clay vessels produced 107‑page catalogue. Antonio Frasconi, Ismael Frigerio, Elizabeth Grajales, by the Taínos in the Dominican Republic from Brian Marina Gutiérrez, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Alfredo Jaar, and Florence Mahoney.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo DECEMBER design of the entrance to comply with the Americans Caras y Sueños/Faces and Dreams, a selection of with Disabilities Act; the renovation of the admissions work by children participating in the Education area and galleries; preparation for the installation of Program, is on view. climate control systems; and the creation of a reading room. The work is completed in May 1994. 1992 APRIL 15–JULY 15; OCTOBER 28– MAY 28–DECEMBER 2 DECEMBER 9 Voyages to Freedom: 500 Years of Jewish History in Impresiones, Posters from the Collection of El Museo Latin America and the Caribbean, curated by Kenneth del Barrio, is presented first at Pace University/ Libo, is presented. This exhibit features story panels Pleasantville Campus, and then at Pace University/ describing Jewish history in Latin America. Manhattan Campus. SEPTEMBER 1992–MARCH 1993 APRIL 21–MAY 4 Antonio Martorell & Friends: La Casa de Todos From the Heart of a Child/Del corazón del niño, Nosotros/A House for Us All, curated by Susana art created by children from PS 171 in El Museo del Torruella Leval, introduces the work of the Puerto Rican Barrio and Columbia University’s Caring Program, is printmaker and installation artist, Antonio Martorell, to presented at the Tweed Gallery, New York. New York audiences. The exhibition is accompanied by a 57-page catalogue, and is presented at Cayey JUNE 3–SEPTEMBER 7 Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and La Casa Posters by Antonio Martorell from the Collection of del Libro in San Juan (Puerto Rico). El Museo del Barrio, is presented in The President’s Office of Hostos Community College. DECEMBER 1992–MARCH 1993 A House Party, an installation by children in JULY 1–OCTOBER 2 conjunction with La Casa de Todos Nosotros, is Pa’lante: Political Works from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, curated by Susana Torruella Antonio Martorell’s La ceiba de Ponce, installed in La Casa de Todos on view. Nosotros (photo by Frank Gimpaya). Leval, is presented at Lehman College Art Gallery. The 1993 exhibition includes works by Luis Camnitzer, Robert Coane, Frank Espada, Rafael Ferrer, Antonio Frasconi, MARCH Marina Gutiérrez, Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Irizarry, NOVEMBER Director Petra Barreras del Río resigns; Chief Curator Alfredo Jaar, Lizette Lugo, Antonio Maldonado, Antonio Susana Torruella Leval is appointed Executive Susana Torruella Leval is appointed Interim Director. Martorell, Leopoldo Méndez, Fernando Salicrup, Jos Director of El Museo del Barrio. Torruella Leval serves El Museo del Barrio temporarily closes its galleries in Sánchez, Jorge Soto, and Mariana Yampolsky, and is as Executive Director from November 1993 through order to implement the following improvements: re- accompanied by a 14‑page catalogue. June 2002.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo 1994 Robert Coane, Papo Colo, Rafael Colón Morales, establish a forum that will preserve and project the Luis Cruz Azaceta, Juan De’Prey, Marcos Dimas, dynamic cultural heritage of Puerto Ricans and all JANUARY 3–JANUARY 14 Judite Dos Santos, Raúl Farco, Rafael Ferrer, Luis Latin Americans in the United States.” The 1994 Los Aguinaldos del Infante, an exhibition in Flores, Frank Gimpaya, Carlos Irizarry, Leandro Katz, mission statement includes “Latin Americans in the conjunction with El Museo del Barrio’s annual Three Michael Lebrón, Augusto Marín, Hiram Maristany, United States” for the first time. Kings Day Parade, is presented at Taller Boricua. Rafael Montañez Ortiz, José Morales, Lillian Mulero, SEPTEMBER 9–OCTOBER 30 Nestor Otero, Catalina Parra, Martín (Tito) Pérez, FEBRUARY–MARCH 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Talk Back: Visual Liliana Porter, Sophie Rivera, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Conversations with El Museo, Part II –Recovering Angel Rodríguez Díaz, Freddy Rodríguez, Jorge co-curated by Arthur Ollman of the Museum of Popular Culture, curated by Susana Torruella Leval, Luís Rodríguez, Fernando Salicrup, Juan Sánchez, Photographic Arts (Albuquerque, New Mexico) and is presented. It Includes works by Edna Acuña, Adál, Paul Sierra, Jorge Soto Sánchez, Jorge Tacla, Nitza Nissan Pérez of The Israel Museum, is presented. Grace de Almeida, Eloy Blanco, Miguel Caraballo Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, Kukuli Velarde, and Gillian M. The travelling survey is accompanied by a García, René David Chamizo, Felipe Colón Colón, Wainwright. The exhibition is accompanied by a 52- 134‑page catalogue. Félix Cordero, Bruce Davidson, Jack Delano, Pablo page catalogue. SPRING Delano, José Franco, Ralph Fasanella, Adrián García- Borikongo, Marina Gutiérrez, Manuel Hernández El Museo’s Board of Trustees organizes the first MAY 24–JULY 16 The Latino Papers: Posters, Prints and Works Acevedo, Lewis Hine, Lorenzo Homar, Mary Kent, annual gala dinner, a major fundraising event that on Paper from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Helen Levitt, Manuel Macarrulla, Justo Martí, E. continues successfully to the present. Collection, curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Luis Vicente Martínez, Gregorio Marzán, María Mijares, MAY 5 Camnitzer, is presented at The Equitable Gallery, Liora Mondlak, Pepón Osorio, Liza Papi, Miguel Pérez, El Museo del Barrio inaugurates its renovated New York. The exhibition features 73 works on paper. Bob Rivera, José Rodríguez, Angelo Romano, Moses galleries, and celebrates its 25th anniversary, with a In 1997, this exhibition is “reinterpreted” by Antonio Ros, José Rosa Castellanos, Emilio Rosado Méndez, special, three-part exhibitions series (1994–1995) in Martorell and is travelled nationally for 3 years by Luciano Rosario de Rodríguez, Edwin Rosskam, which artists create works in dialogue with works in The Gallery Association of New York State as A Edgar Ruíz Zapata, Regina Silveira, Carmelo Sobrino, the Permanent Collection. Walk Through the Paper Forest: Latino Prints and Elaine Soto, Hilario Soto, Rafael Tufiño, Francisco Drawings from El Museo del Barrio, accompanied by Vidal, Pedro Villarini, Willie Velez, and Tom Webb. MAY 6–AUGUST 14 a 10‑page brochure. The exhibit includes a recreation, La Bodega, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Talk Back: conceptualized by Arthur Tobier, and reconstructed Visual Conversations with El Museo, Part I – AUGUST by José Morales, Manuel Vega, and Pablo Delano. It is Reclaiming History, curated by Susana Torruella El Museo del Barrio presents its first long range plan accompanied by a 67-page catalogue. Leval, is presented. The exhibition includes works in a document entitled Visiones, the culmination of by Francisco Alvarado Juárez, Myrna Báez, Charles the process begun in 1990. Visiones introduces a Biasiny-Rivera, Félix Bonilla Norat, Rolando Briseño, broader version of the museum’s mission statement Luis Camnitzer, Josely Carvalho, Norberto Cedeño, that read: “El Museo del Barrio’s mission is to

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo SEPTEMBER 1–30 MARCH Windows of Our Culture, the Hispanic Vision: an Fatima Bercht, former Director of Visual Arts of the Exhibit of Hispanic Art, is presented at Merrill Lynch Americas Society, New York, is hired as Curator. Campus Art Gallery. APRIL 7–AUGUST 13 OCTOBER 16, 1984–JANUARY 8, 1995 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Talk Back: Visual Masks and Santos from the Collection of El Museo del Conversations with El Museo, Part III –Reaffirming Barrio, is presented at the White Plains Public Library. Spirituality, curated by Susana Torruella Leval, is presented. It includes works by Ray Abeyta, Rodolfo NOVEMBER Abularach, José Alicea, Juan Alindato, Cándida La Familia, organized by the Mexican Cultural Álvarez, Diógenes Ballester, Tony Bechara, Norma Institute, is presented. Bessouet, Juan Boza, The Cabán Family, Carlos DECEMBER Cabán, Flores Cabán, Tomás Cabo, Zoilo Cajigas, The National Arts Stabilization Fund awards El Museo Tony Capellán, Rimer Cardillo, Norberto Cedeño, del Barrio a grant to improve and stabilize its financial Papo Colo, Rafael Colón Morales, Esperanza Cortés, position. George Crespo, Jaime Davidovich, Marcos Dimas, Juan Downey, Rico Espinet, Ana Flores, Edgar 1995 Franceschi, Álvaro A. García, Domingo García, Joanne Gover Yoshida, Carlos Gutiérrez Solana, JANUARY 15–MARCH 5 Miriam Hernández, Lorenzo Homar, Arturo Lindsay, Art of the Other México: Sources and Meanings, Ramón Martínez, Antonio Martorell, Ana Mendieta, organized by the Mexican Fine Arts Center (Chicago) Raquelín Mendieta, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Osvaldo and curated by René H. Arceo-Frutos, Juana Guzmán, Mesa, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, Carlos Ortíz Sueños, and Amalia Mesa-Bains is presented. A travelling Néster Otero, Germán Pérez, Ernesto Pujol, Carlos exhibition of 98 paintings and sculptures by 20 artists Raquel Rivera, Genaro Rivera, Gloria Rodríguez, José of Mexican descent living in the U.S., it includes Rosa, Federico Ruíz, Juan Sánchez, Fanny Sanín, Célia Álvarez Muñoz, Judith F. Baca, Santa Contreras Andrés Serrano, Jennifer Sloan, Jorge Soto Sánchez, Barraza, Carlos Alfredo Cortéz, Nicolás de Jesús, Jorge Toro, Rubem Valentim, José Antonio Vázquez, Margaret García, Rupert García, Adán Hernández, Manuel Vega, and Pablo Yglesias. It is accompanied Ester Hernández, Luis Jiménez Jr., Carmen Lomas by a 55‑page catalogue. 25th Anniversary Exhibitions: Artists Talk Back: Visual Conversations Garza, Frank López-Motnyk, César Augusto Martínez, with El Museo: 1994 Part I: Reclaiming History, Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s A Marcos Raya, Patricia Rodríguez, Peter Rodríguez, Monument to 500 Years of the Cultural Reversal of America (photo by: T Chas Erickson). 1994 Part II: Recovering Popular Culture, La Bodega: An Rubén Trejo, John Valdez, Patssi Valdez, and David Island in the City (photo by: T Chas Erickson). 1995 Part III: Reaffirming Zamora Casa. Spirituality, Federico Ruíz’s Revelations #2 (photo by: T Chas Erickson).

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo SEPTEMBER 7–DECEMBER 17 is presented. The exhibition highlights prints and Trampa de los espíritus/Spirit Trap: Selections from posters by 15 Puerto Rican artists in El Museo del Reaffirming Spirituality, curated by Fatima Bercht, Barrio’s collection whose themes address political is presented. issues pertinent to the island of Puerto Rico. SEPTEMBER 7, 1995–JANUARY 7, 1996 JANUARY 25–APRIL 7 Four Corners/Cuatro Esquinas: Recent Paintings and Recent Acquisitions: Works from El Museo’s Drawings by José Morales, a one-person exhibition Collection, curated by Fatima Bercht, is on view. The of 10 paintings, curated by Fatima Bercht, is on view. exhibition presents notable acquisitions from the It is accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. past five years, including a large-scale installation, paintings, drawings, prints, and a group of masks. SEPTEMBER 7, 1995–JANUARY 7, 1996 AMANAPLANACANALPANAMA, a site-specific JANUARY 25–APRIL 7 installation about the history of the Panama Canal by Contemporánea: Portrait, a sitespecific installation Luis Camnitzer is on view. by Carla Preiss, is on view. Curated by Fatima Bercht, this inaugurates the Contemporánea series (designed SEPTEMBER 18–SEPTEMBER 27 by Susana Torruella Leval), dedicated to site-specific, Selections from El Museo’s Permanent Collection, commissioned installations selected for their polemic including 6 works from the Permanent Collection, is and innovative format. presented in the AVON’s offices. JANUARY 25–MAY 5 SEPTEMBER 23–OCTOBER 2 Leandro Katz: Two Projects/A Decade, curated Posters from El Museo del Barrio’s Collection, by Julia P. Herzberg, is on view. The exhibit highlighting El Museo’s fine silkscreen posters from presents The Catherwood Project and Project for Puerto Rico, is presented in NYNEX’s offices. the Day You’ll Love Me, and is accompanied by a 24‑page catalogue. 1996 Pattern and drawing for Three Kings Day Parade costumes, designed by El Museo del Barrio’s Board of Trustees creates a APRIL 18–AUGUST 4, 1996 Mario César Romero. Mission Task Force composed of Board and staff Image and Memory: Photography from Latin members to reconsider the wording of the 1994 America, 1880–1992, curated by Wendy Watriss, Uruguay, Venezuela, El Salvador, Brazil, Guatemala, mission statement. Artistic Director of FotoFest’s International Festival Mexico, and Peru) and it is accompanied by a of Photography, Houston, organized and circulated 450-page book. It includes photographs by: Alicia JANUARY 25–APRIL 7 by ICI (Independent Curators, Inc.), is on view. The Damico, Sara Facio, Eduardo Gil, Annemarie Heinrich, Historia de la isla: Graphic works by Puerto Rican travelling exhibition includes 141 photographs from Oscar Pintor, Grete Stern, Juan Travnik, Mário Cravo Artists 1968–1980, curated by Nellie Escalante, 9 Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Neto, Marc Ferrez, Penna Prearo, Miguel Río Branco,

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Cássio Vasconcellos, Pedro Vásquez, Benjamín de la presented. The exhibition includes prints by José NOVEMBER Calle, Fernell Franco, Becky Mayer, Jorge Obando, R. Alicea, Luis Alonso, Angel Casiano, Wilfredo Carolina Ponce de León, former Curator of Biblioteca Jorge Ortíz, Melitón Rodríguez, Juan Camilo Uribe, Chiesa, Carlos Dávila Rinaldi, Juan Díaz, Rafael Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, is hired as Curator. Juan José de Jesús Yas, Luis González Palma, Flor Ferrer, Consuelo Gotay, Anaida Hernández, Manuel Fatima Bercht becomes a part-time Associate Garduño, Crisanto Cabrera, Filiberto Cabrera, Martín Hernández Acevedo, Luis Hernández Cruz, Lorenzo Curator. Chambi, Juan Manuel Figueroa-Aznar, Sebastián Homar, Antonio Maldonado, Victor Maldonado, Rodríguez, Carlos Vargas, Miguel Vargas, Mario Carlos Marichal, Antonio Martorell, Marta Matos, DECEMBER 1996–APRIL 13, 1997 Marotta, Juan Angel Urruzola, Alexander Apóstol, José Meléndez Contreras, Héctor Méndez Caratini, Contemporánea: The Persistence of Sorrow, a site- Fran Beaufrand, Luis Brito, Nelson Garrido, Edgar Roberto Moya, Luis Muñoz Lee, Ida Nieves Collazo, specific installation by María Elena González, curated Moreno, Vasco Szinetar, and others. María de Mater O’Neill, Francisco Palacios, Carlos by Fatima Bercht, and accompanied by a 6-page Raquel Rivera, Rubén Aponte, Rafael Rivera Rose, brochure, is on view. JUNE Félix Rodríguez Báez, José Rosa Castellanos, Nelson The Mission Task Force rewords the 1994 mission Sambolín, Samuel Sánchez, Carmelo Sobrino, Julio 1997 statement. The 1996 mission statement reads, Suárez, José Antonio Torres Martinó, Robert Tort, “El Museo del Barrio will collect, preserve, exhibit, JANUARY Rafael Tufiño, Isabel Vázquez, and Eduardo Vera Deborah Cullen is hired as Curatorial Assistant; Noel interpret and promote the artistic heritage of Latin Cortés. It is accompanied by a 70-page catalogue. Valentín is hired as Registrar. Americans, primarily in the United States.” FALL El Museo del Barrio is awarded a multi-year Lila JUNE 11–SEPTEMBER 15 Wallace-Reader’s Digest Collections Accessibility FEBRUARY 13–APRIL 13 The Conceptual Trend: Six Artists from Mexico Contemporánea: Working Shoes, a site-specific Initiative, which, over five years, funds a series of City, curated by Rubén Gallo and Terence Gower, is installation by Ana Busto, curated by Fatima Bercht, exhibitions, publications, education programs and presented. The exhibition includes works by Marco is on view. outreach activities that make El Museo’s Permanent Collection more accessible to a larger public. Arce, Sylvia Gruner, Daniella Rosell, Melanie Smith, AUGUST 15–SEPTEMBER 8 Pablo Vargas Lugo, and Yishai Yusidman. Eloy Blanco: Pursuits in Painting, curated by Fatima NOVEMBER 1996–MARCH 1999 Bercht, is on view. Santos: Sculptures Between Heaven and Earth, FEBRUARY 13–APRIL 13 curated by Fatima Bercht, inaugurates a five-year The Veiled Mirrors: Recent Works by Alicia Creus, AUGUST 15–OCTOBER 13 series of exhibitions entitled, The Caribbean and Latin curated by Fatima Bercht, presents textiles and ADAL: Out of Focus Nuyoricans, curated by Fatima American Traditional Arts Series, which highlight drawings. It is accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. Bercht, is on view. El Museo del Barrio’s prominent collection of Santos FEBRUARY 13–APRIL 13 SEPTEMBER 27, 1996–JANUARY 12, 1997 de Palo. The first part focuses on santos made in Bio* (as in Biography, Biology and Biogenesis), The Liberated Print: The Portfolio in Puerto Rican Puerto Rico. These installations rotate each Christmas curated by Carolina Ponce de León, is presented. The Graphics, organized by the Instituto de Cultura to feature the Three Kings, the Nacimiento, and exhibition includes mixed media works by Alejandro Puertorriqueña and curated by Dr. Teresa Tió, is related iconographies. Castaño, Ana Claudia Múnera, and Pablo Van Wong,

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo and is accompanied by a 28-page catalogue. The objects from 8 institutions, including El Museo del exhibit is also presented at the Colombian Consulate, Barrio, the American Museum of Natural History, New York. and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (New York); National MAY 7–SEPTEMBER 7 Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South (Washington D.C.); Museo Antropológico Montané American Drawing, curated by Mari Carmen Ramírez de la Universidad de la Habana (Cuba); Fundación and Edith A. Gibson for the Archer M. Huntington Centro Cultural, Museo Arqueológico Regional, Altos Art Gallery (Austin, TX), debuts at El Museo. The de Chavón, Fundación García Arévalo, and Museo del travelling exhibition includes drawings by Carlos Hombre Dominicano (Dominican Republic); Museo Alonso, José Balmes, Arturo Barrio, Luis Bendit, Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico “L. Pigorini” Herman Braun-Vega, Marcelo Bonevardi, Waltercio (Rome, Italy); and Museo de Historia, Antropología y Caldas, Juan Calzadilla, Ernesto Deira, Antonio Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (Puerto Dias, Juan Downey, Mercedes Estévez, León Ferrari, Rico). Accompanied by both a 190-page anthology Héctor Fuenmayor, José Gamarra, Gego, Anna Bella (the book is co-published with The Monacelli Press, Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Beatriz González, Haroldo NY), as well as a 56-page exhibition catalogue, González, Alberto Greco, Carmela Gross, Alberto El Museo launches its website in conjunction with this Heredia, Romulo Macció, Ivens Machado, Anna María project (www.elmuseo.org). Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Cildo Meireles, Oscar Muñoz, Luis Felipe Noé, Guillermo Nuñez, Marie SEPTEMBER 27, 1997–JANUARY 11, 1998 Oresanz, Liliana Porter, Raquel Rabinovich, Nelson The Taíno Legacy, curated by Fatima Bercht, is Ramos, Emilio Renart, Luisa Richter, Miguel Angel presented. Photographs, videos, and public programs Ríos, Carlos Ríos, Miguel Angel Rojas, Mira Schendel, encourage understanding of the culture’s continuity. Regina Silveira, Tunga, and Jorge de la Vega, and is SEPTEMBER 27, 1997–JANUARY 11, 1998 accompanied by a 237‑page catalogue. Contemporánea: Coaybay/Site of the Afterlife, a Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean book cover. SEPTEMBER 27, 1997–MAY 3, 1998 site-specific installation by Jorge Crespo, curated by Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Fatima Bercht, is on view. Caribbean, organized by Project Directors Fatima SEPTEMBER 27, 1997–MARCH 31, 1998 Bercht and Estrellita Brodsky, and Guest Curated El Batey: The Goya Family Activity Center provides by Dr. Ricardo Alegría, Dr. José Juan Arrom, and Dr. an interactive area for children and school groups Dicey Taylor, is presented. The most comprehensive to work on activities related to Taíno mythology, exhibition on Taíno culture to date, it includes 139 craftsmanship, and science.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo 1998 specifically mentioned in the mission statement, and that El Museo preserves itself as a Puerto Rican JANUARY 29–MARCH 29 institution. Discussions among the Trustees and staff Brian Nissen: Chinampas, coorganized by the Mexican are renewed on the wording of the 1996 mission Cultural Institute of New York, is presented. It is statement. accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. El Museo’s third logo, designed in 1998 by Jonathan Wajskol. JUNE 9–JUNE 28 JANUARY 29–JUNE 28 El Mexterminator is presented in collaboration with Contemporánea: Recurrent Memories, a site-specific Creative Time. Featuring 3 performances and an installation by Diamantina González, curated by installation by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Fatima Bercht, and accompanied by a 6-page Sifuentes, and Sara Shelton Mann, the project is brochure, is on view. accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. APRIL 17–JUNE 28 JULY 16–OCTOBER 25 FOCOS: Carmen Herrera: The Black and White Contemporánea: So Quiet in Here, a site-specific Paintings 1951–1989, curated by Carolina Ponce de installation by Rubén Torres Llorca, curated by León, presents 22 hard edge, geometric abstract Carolina Ponce de León, and accompanied by a acrylic paintings. The exhibition is accompanied by a 6-page brochure, is on view. 32-page catalogue. SUMMER MAY 30–OCTOBER 25 Major renovations of Teatro Heckscher begin with the FOCOS: Beatriz González: What An Honor to Be restoration of the murals. With You At This Historic Moment, Works 1965–1997, curated by Carolina Ponce de León, is presented. SEPTEMBER Including over 55 paintings, drawings, and painted The Institute of Museum and Library Services awards sculptural works, the exhibition is accompanied by an El Museo del Barrio a General Operating Support 80‑page catalogue. Grant for outstanding professionalism and services. JUNE SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 25 Artists, educators, and community leaders with Caribbean Classics: Fernando Ortiz and the History the task force Puerto Ricans for the Next Millenium of Afro-Cuban Music, organized by Inter Americas/ (PRFNM), communicate their disappointment Society of Arts and Letters of the Americas, regarding the omission of “Puerto Ricans” in the presenting books, sound recordings, and musical 1996 mission statement. PRFNM requests that instruments, is on view. Puerto Ricans, as the founding community, be Guillermo Gómez-Peña (at right) in El Mexterminator (photo by Karl Peterson)

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo NOVEMBER 14, 1998–FEBRUARY 7, 1999 NOVEMBER 14, 1998–FEBRUARY 28, 1999 Contemporánea: Domino/Dominó, a site-specific Casitas: Gardens of Reclamation, presents installation by Bibiana Suárez, curated by Carolina photographic documentation of casitas in New York, Ponce de León, and accompanied by a 6-page by Ejlat Feuer and Daniel Winterbottom. Carolina brochure, is on view. Ponce de León moves to San Francisco, California, where she serves as Executive Director of Galería de NOVEMBER 14, 1998–FEBRUARY 28, 1999 la Raza. Fatima Bercht returns to a full-time position The Art of Jack Delano, organized by the Smithsonian as Chief Curator. Deborah Cullen, now Assistant Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, brings Curator, becomes Curator. Margarita Aguilar is hired together the complete range of Jack Delano’s (b. as Curatorial Assistant. 1914–d. 1997) artistic endeavors. The nationally- touring exhibition features photographs from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), film stills, 1999 PRFNM continues to advocate that Puerto Ricans posters, and book illustrations, and is accompanied Altares de los Orishas: Afro-Caribbean Sacred Spaces (photo by Carlos be acknowledged in El Museo del Barrio’s mission Ortíz). by a 2‑page brochure. statement. Debates continue regarding the expansion NOVEMBER 14, 1998–FEBRUARY 28, 1999 of El Museo’s mission statement to include Latin Gods, Spirits and Legends: Twentieth Century Art in Americans. El Salvador, curated by Dr. Mariano Castro Magaña, FEBRUARY 24–JUNE 30 and organized in collaboration with Friends from Contemporánea: Cinema Kinesis, a site-specific El Salvador, is presented. The exhibition includes installation by Marta Chilindrón, curated by Deborah paintings by Negra Álvarez (Margarita Álvarez de Cullen and Carolina Ponce de León, and accompanied Martínez), San Avilés (Ernesto Avilés), Mayra Barraza, by a 6-page brochure, is on view. Licry Bicard (Lillian Cristina Andreu de Bicard), Antonio Bonilla, Marcelino Carballo, Carlos Cañas, APRIL 9–JUNE 30, 1999 Benjamín Cañas, Roberto Huerzo, Valero Lecha, El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, Ana María Martínez, Jose Mejía Vides, Rosa Mena conceived and cocurated by Deborah Cullen and Valenzuela, César Menéndez, Victor Rodríguez Preza, Carolina Ponce de León, opens. The (S) Files is Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué), and Benjamin El Museo del Barrio’s biennial group exhibition that Inauguration of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, Saúl. It is accompanied by a 176-page book, and an presents new and innovative Puerto Rican, Latino, featuring courtyard “drawing” by James de la Vega (photo by 8‑page brochure. Caribbean and Latin American artists living and Carlos Ortíz). working in the New York area, selected from their submissions to El Museo’s Artists Archives. The Bienal activates El Museo’s relationship with a wide

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo range of emerging artists in the metropolitan region. cultural creativity of El Barrio. An announcement in The first installation highlights works by 23 artists, the form of a map locates murals, artists’ studios, including Pedro Abreu, Desirée Álvarez, Monika and cultural centers in El Barrio. Yasmín Ramírez and Bravo, Luis Carle, Esteban Chávez S., Fernando Colón Julia P. Herzberg serve as Consulting Curators during González, José Luis Cortés, André Cypriano, James 2000 and 2001. de La Vega, Mary Teresa Giancoli, Laurence Gomez, SEPTEMBER 11–OCTOBER 29 Berta Jottar, Ronaldo Macedo, Arnaldo Morales, Iván Dead Time: Elizam Escobar, Antonio Martorell, and Navarro, Enoc Pérez, Jaime Permuth (in collaboration Dread Scott, a collaboration with Taller Boricua, is with Jennifer Dodge), Alejandro Quiroga Vial, presented at Centro Cultural Julia de Burgos. Rita Rivera, Riché Rodríguez, Luis Roldán, Miriam Romais, and Julio Valdez. It is accompanied by a SEPTEMBER 24, 1999–JANUARY 9, 2000 32‑page catalogue. Pepón Osorio: TRANSBORICUA, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, is presented. Preceded by Phase I, during APRIL 9–OCTOBER 24 the summer of 1999, in which Tertulias were held in El Director Susana Toruella Leval with artist Antonio Martorell, Three Kings The second major re-installation of the Caribbean and Day parade (photo by Carlos Ortíz). Barrio, and Phase II, in which the work was presented Latin American Traditional Arts Series, highlighting in Youngworld Department Store on 106th Street and two different religious practices—popular Catholicism 3rd Avenue, in August and September. In Phase III, and Santería—and their interaction in the New World the work is presented at El Museo. The exhibition is is presented. Curated by Fatima Bercht, this included accompanied by a 6‑page brochure. Puerto Rican Santos de Palo: Sculptures Between Manuel García, Rupert García, Ester Hernández, Heaven and Earth; Altares de los Orishas: Afro- SEPTEMBER 24, 1999–JANUARY 9, 2000 Lorenzo Homar, Carlos Irizarry, Luis Jiménez, Bill Caribbean Sacred Spaces (with an altar dedicated to Pressing the Point: Parallel Expressions in the Graphic Langley & Guillermo Vásquez, Yolanda M. López, Yemayá by Salvador “Junito” Ortíz); and Buscando Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements, co- Linda Lucero, Antonio Maldonado, César Augusto Milagros/Searching for Miracles: Photographs by curated by Henry C. Estrada and Yasmín Ramírez, is Martínez, Antonio Martorell, Joaquín Mercado, Héctor Méndez Caratini. presented. Prints, posters, and other works on paper Leopoldo Méndez, Malaquías Montoya, Isidoro that express the affinities between U.S., Puerto Rican JULY–AUGUST Ocampo, Pablo O’Higgins, Amado Maurilio Peña, and Chicano graphic arts movements (1960s–1970s) Jr., José Guadalupe Posada, Michael Ríos, Carlos El Museo’s West and East Galleries are closed while are exhibited. The exhibition includes prints by Raquel Rivera, Rafael Rivera García, Rafael Rivera HVAC ducting is installed. Ignacio Aguirre, Myrna Báez, Leonard Castellanos, Rosa, José A. Rosa Castellanos, Royal Chicano Air JULY 8–AUGUST 21 Yreina D. Cervantez, Carlos A. Cortéz Koyokuikatl, Force (RCAF), Fernando Salicrup, Nelson Sambolín, The Site/Studio/Street Festival presents David “Davo” Cruz, Marcos Dimas, Richard S. Duardo, Jorge Soto Sánchez, Nitza Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, contemporary, off-site projects, linked to the Bienal Sandra Maria Estéves, Tony Evora, Ricardo Favela, Rafael Tufiño II, Manuel Vega, Xavier Viramontes, and held throughout the summer, that explore the Juan R. Fuentes, Adrián Gacía, Arturo García Bustos, Alfredo Zalce, Revista Chicano-Riqueña, and others.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo Accompanied by a 56-page catalogue, the exhibition OCTOBER 31, 1999–JANUARY 14, 2001 DECEMBER 12, 1999–JANUARY 6, 2000 was later presented at the Jack S. Blanton Museum The third re-installation of the Caribbean and Latin Nacimiento, curated by Fatima Bercht, presents 21 of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX (June 12– American Traditional Arts Series, highlighting the large-scale santos de palo created by 21 Puerto Rican August 13, 2000). relationship between Puerto Rican and Mexican santeros. devotional arts, is on view. This includes Between SEPTEMBER 24, 1999–JANUARY 9, 2000 DECEMBER Heaven and Earth: Devotional Art from Puerto Rico Juan Sánchez: Printed Convictions. Prints and El Museo del Barrio receives the first endowment and Mexico, curated by Fatima Bercht; and Our Lady Related Works on Paper, organized by the Jersey grant in El Museo del Barrio’s history,from the Ford of the Apocalypse: The Virgin of Guadalupe and City Museum and curated by Alejandro Anreus is Foundation. Other Miracles, curated by Sophia Vackimes. presented; Julia P. Herzberg is the on-site Curator for El Museo’s presentation of almost 50 graphics OCTOBER 31–NOVEMBER 2 and drawings created over 15 years. The exhibiton is Día de los Muertos Altar, organized by Miriam de accompanied by a 64‑page catalogue. Uriarte, Director of Education. SEPTEMBER 24, 1999–JANUARY 9, 2000 OCTOBER 31–DECEMBER 7 A Tribute to En Foco: 25 Years of Making ¡Vivan los Muertos! curated by Eduardo Pineda and Photographic History, curated by Charles Biasiny- Deborah Lawrence, the San Francisco Museum of Rivera and Miriam Romais, is on view. A digital Modern Art, is on view. The exhibition presents 16 presentation summarizing 25 years of En Foco, works by California Bay area Chicano artists inspired the presentation includes 75 works from over 75 by the celebration of Día de los Muertos. photographers.

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The current mission is finalized to include Puerto Cravo Neto, Alejandro Obregón, Francisco Oller y Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. Cestero, Sylvia Ordoñez, Amelia Peláez, Marta María An oral history and Permanent Collection project Pérez Bravo, Emilio Pettoruti, Liliana Porter, Ernesto is completed consisting of a 5-volume publication Pujol, Diego Rivera, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Soledad and a traveling exhibition. And a large-scale capital Salme, Edgar Soberón, Juan Soriano, Rufiño Tamayo, project is underway on El Museo’s façade, lobby, Einar de la Torre, Jamex de la Torre, Milagros de la galleries, and offices. All facilities scheduled to be Torre, Augusto Torres, Joaquín Torres-García, Emilio open by the end of the decade, coinciding with the Torti, and Nahum B. Zenil. It is accompanied by a 48- launch of a newly renovated website and El Museo’s page catalogue. 45th Anniversary. FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21 Contemporánea: Mexique, a site-specific installation 2000 by Franco Mondini-Ruíz, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, FEBRUARY and accompanied by a 6-page brochure, is on view. The Board of Trustees approves a mission statement that acknowledges the special role of the Puerto FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21 Carlos Irizarry: The Sixties Plus Picasso, A Suite of Rican founding community while including peoples of Prints from the Permanent Collection, curated by diverse Latin American heritages. The current mission Yasmín Ramírez, is on view. statement reads: “The Mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto JUNE 13–SEPTEMBER 24 Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States.” El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21 curated by Deborah Cullen and Yasmín Ramírez, is presented. The second installation of the Bienal Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and highlights works by 28 artists: Manuel Acevedo, Place, organized by the Katonah Museum of Art and Allora & Calzadilla, María Elena Álvarez, Soledad curated by Edward J. Sullivan and Clayton Kirking, Arias, Jaime Arredondo, Sandra Bermúdez, Fernanda is presented. The exhibition includes works by Julio Brunet, Alejandro Díaz, Pablo Helguera, Elisa Victoria Alpuy, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Alexander Apóstol, Jiménez, Ivelisse Jiménez, Jota’e, Georges Le Humberto Aquino, Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Chevallier, Malika, Rossana Martínez, Domingo Nuño, Hermann Camargo, Elena Climent, Alberto Gironella, Emilio Perez, Rabindranat, Paul Henry Ramírez, H.A. Juan González, José Gurvich, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Rodríguez-Mora, Moses Ros, Scherezade, Miguel María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Julio Larráz, Roberto Trelles, Juana Váldes, Vargas-Suárez Universal, and Márquez, Francisco Matto, Ana Mendieta, Amalia Lucia Warck-Meister. The exhibition is accompanied Contemporanea: Mexique by Franco Mondini-Ruíz (photo by Eddie Mesa-Bains, Tina Modotti, Armando Morales, Mario Bartolomei). by a 36-page catalogue.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo JUNE 13–SEPTEMBER 24 Álvarez Bravo, Alexander Apóstol, Karina Barg, 2001 Contemporánea: Conversion of Manners, a site- Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Maria Magdelena Campos specific installation by Ernesto Pujol, curated by Julia Pons, Fernando Castro, Elizabeth Cerejido, Martín JANUARY–MAY P. Herzberg, and accompanied by a 6-page brochure, Chambi, Laura Cohen, Mario Cravo Neto, Valdir Cruz, El Museo del Barrio launches an Oral History project is on view. Jack Delano, Joan Fontcuberta, Carlos Garaicoa, to document its early history. Yasmín Ramírez serves Flor Garduño, Luis González-Palma, Gory (Rogelio as researcher. OCTOBER 4–DECEMBER 3 Lopez Marín), Robert Huarcaya, Muriel H. Hasbun, FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20 ¡Llegaron los Muertos! Monumentos para Los que Graciela Iturbide, Silvia Lizama, Chema Madóz, Here & There/Aquí y Allá: Six Artists from San Viven en Nuestro Corazón, by Santiago-Hoge, a Adál, Luis Mallo, Patricia Martin, María Martínez- Juan, curated by Deborah Cullen, is presented. The collaborative installation by artist/performer Glen Cañas, “Marucha” María Eugenia Haya, Ana María exhibition includes installations by six artists from M. Santiago and composer-artist John Hoge, is McCarthy, Héctor Méndez Caratini, Tony Mendoza, Puerto Rico: Nayda Collazo Llorens, Charles Juhász presented. It is accompanied by a 6-page brochure. Tina Modotti, Delilah Montoya, Cirenda Moreira, Vic Alvarado, Ana Rosa Rivera Marrero, Freddie Mercado, Muniz, Eduardo Muñoz, Sandro Oramas, Marta María OCTOBER 26, 2000–SEPTEMBER 14, 2003 Carlos Rivera Villafañe, and Aaron Salabarrías Pérez Bravo, Liliana Porter, Miguel Rio Branco, Geno Taíno: Ancient Voyagers of the Caribbean, curated Valle. Accompanied by a 108-page catalogue, the Rodríguez, Andrés Serrano, Javier Meniel Silva, Kathy by Dicey Taylor, is on view. The first phase of a long- exhibition later travels to The Blaffer Art Gallery, Vargas, Cassio Vasconcellos, Victor Vásquez, and term, rotating installation of pre-Columbian art from The University of Houston, TX (January 19– Marina Yampolsky; Abelardo Morell creates a walk- the Caribbean, Taíno includes over 100 ceremonial March 17, 2002). and domestic objects in stone, wood, bone, ceramic, in camera obscura in the galleries. The exhibition and shell, from El Museo’s Permanent Collection is accompanied by a poster-brochure, and a 72- FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20 as well as other major institutions and private page catalogue. FOCOS: Antonio Frasconi’s “Let America Be America collections. The exhibition provides an overview of Again,” organized by Fatima Bercht, is presented. The NOVEMBER 19, 2000–JANUARY 7, 2001 exhibition highlights a portfolio of prints that includes the history, cosmology, art, and culture of the Taíno, Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection Langston Hughes’s poem. It is accompanied by a and is accompanied by a 12-page brochure. of El Museo del Barrio, curated by Fatima Bercht and 6-page brochure. OCTOBER 26, 2000–JANUARY 14, 2001 Noel Valentín, is presented at the Parrish Art Museum Latin American Artist-Photographers from the (Southampton, NY). FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20 Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, curated by Contemporánea: Neighbors, a site-specific DECEMBER 9, 2000–JANUARY 14, 2001 installation by Leandro Erlich, curated by Julia P. Ricardo Viera, Professor of Art and Director/Curator Nacimiento, curated by Fatima Bercht, is on view. Herzberg, and accompanied by a 6 page brochure, is of Lehigh University Art Galleries, is presented. Renovations in Teatro Heckscher end; the refurbished on view. The exhibition includes photographs by Silvia facility is opened for Three Kings Day. Agostoni, Mario Algaze, Juan Carlos Alom, Manuel

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo APRIL 18–JULY 29 Ortíz, Arnaldo Morales, Edgar Moreno, Oscar Muñoz, 2002 Puerto Rican Santos de Palo: Sculptures Between Antoine Oleyant, Mari Mater O’Neil, J. Ortíz-Tajonar, Heaven and Earth, curated by Fatima Bercht, is Pepón Osorio, Nestor Otero, Ambra Polidori, Liliana APRIL 28–SEPTEMBER 26 presented at the Newark Museum. Porter, Nick Quijano, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Eduardo Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Roca Salazar (aka “Choco”), Geno Rodríguez, Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman JUNE 12–SEPTEMBER 16 Fernando Salicrup, Juan Sánchez, Hilario Silva, David Collection, an internationally travelling exhibition, Voices from Our Communities: Perspectives on Alfaro Siqueiros, Carlos Sueños, Marius Sznajderman, is on view. The presentation, courtesy The Vergel a Decade of Collecting at El Museo del Barrio, is Luis Eligio Tapia, José Antonio Torres Martinó, Nitza Foundation, New York (Robert R. Littman, President); presented. Organized by Susana Torruella Leval, Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, Arturo Urista, Patssi Valdez, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), and with Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Yasmín Ruben Valentim, Inocensio Vásquez, Manuel Vega, The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Ramírez, Margarita Aguilar, Noel Valentín, Miriam Tony Vélez, Pablo Yglesias, and others. The exhibition México, highlights over 100 works by 20 artists: de Uriarte, María Dominguez and Lili Santiago is accompanied by a 40-page catalogue. Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Emilio Silva, the exhibition includes over 100 works from Baz Vivaud, Leonora Carrington, Rafael Cidoncha, the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio. JUNE 12–SEPTEMBER 16 Miguel Covarrubias, Gunter Gerzso, María Izquierdo, Artists highlighted are: Adál, Luis Arenal, Diógenes Contemporánea: Permanent Visibility, a site-specific Agustín Lazo, Carlos Mérida, Roberto Montenegro, Ballester, Hugo Xavier Bastidas, Bartolomé de las installation by Ingrid Menéndez, curated by Deborah José Clemente Orozco, Carlos Orozco Romero, Jesús Casas, Clothaire Bazile León, Rolando Briseño, Cullen, and accompanied by a 6-page brochure, is on Reyes Ferreira, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siquieros, Ramón Cabán, Antonio Caro, Melba Carillo, Alfredo view. Juan Soriano, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, and Ceibal, Esteban Chávez S., Raphael Collazo, Rafael OCTOBER 13, 2001–FEBRUARY 3, 2002 Ángel Zarraga. The exhibition is accompanied by a Colón Morales, Alicia Creus, Martiza Dávila, Richard O Fio da Trama/The Thread Unraveled: 22-page brochure and a 96-page catalogue. S. Duardo, León Ferrari, Rafael Ferrer, Clemente Contemporary Brazilian Art, curated by Fatima Flores, Edgar Francheschi, Rupert García, Nelson JUNE 30 Bercht, is presented. The exhibition includes works Garrido, Beatriz González, Louis “the Foot” González, Susana Torruella Leval retires after 12 years of by 21 artists including Efrain Almeida, Brígida Sonia Guisado, Greg Gutiérrez, Marina Gutiérrez, service to El Museo del Barrio. She is named Director Baltar, Miguel Río Branco, Fábio Carvalho, Paulo Anna Ruth Henriques, Ester Hernández, Miriam Emeritus by the Board of Trustees. Climachauska, Rochelle Costi, Eliane Duarte, Tatiana Hernández, Carmen Herrera, Lorenzo Homar, Alfredo Grinberg, Luiz Hermano, Hilal Sami Hilal, Lina Kim, SEPTEMBER 14–NOVEMBER 17 Jaar, J.J.R.M., Leandro Katz, Carmen Lomas Garza, Leonilson, Anna Linnemann, Marepe, Vera Martins, Treasures from El Mueso del Barrio is presented at Armando Londoño, Gilbert Luján, Anna María Vincente de Mello, Monken, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, the Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY). A Maiolino, Manuel Macarulla, Carlos Marichal, Antonio Nazareth Pacheco, and Laura Vinci. It is accompanied pilot project for Voces y Visiones: Highlights from Martorell, Julio Mateo, Fernando L. Matías, Carlos by a 144-page catalogue and later travels to Museo the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, the Mérida, Mestre Nosa (Inocencio de Costa Nick), de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires-Colección exhibition features over 75 works and is accompanied Julio Mitchel, Nicholasa Mohr, Rafael Montañez Constantini/MALBA, (April–June 2002). by a 12-page brochure.

1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St. New York, NY 10029 212 831 7272 www.elmuseo.org @elmuseo, #elmuseo OCTOBER 24, 2002–FEBRUARY 16, 2003 100 paintings, drawings, graphics, and a re-creation MARCH 4–JULY 25 El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, of the artist’s studio, and is accompanied by a MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean curated by Deborah Cullen and Victoria Noorthoorn, 256-page catalogue. El Museo del Barrio kicks off Art from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Curator, MALBA, (Argentina), is presented. The third the celebration of its 35th Anniversary year by Art, a collaboration between El Museo del Barrio and installation of the Bienal highlights works by 30 culminating its collection research in the organization the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by artists: including María Alós, Isidro Blasco, François of this Permanent Collection highlights travelling Fatima Bercht and Deborah Cullen (El Museo) and Bucher, Margarita Cabrera, Bibi Calderaro, Javier exhibition and catalogue, Voces y Visiones. Miriam Basilio, Gary Garrels, and Luis Enrique Pérez Cambre, Paco Cao, Karlos Cárcamo, Alejandro Oramas (MoMA), the exhibition will include over 140 NOVEMBER 13, 2003–FEBRUARY 8, 2004 Cesarco, Nicolás Dumit Estevez, Alessandra Expósito, works of painting, sculpture, graphics, drawings, Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Permanent Cari González-Casanova, Julio Grinblatt, Nicolás artists’ books, and installations spanning from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, curated by Fatima Guagnini, Claudia Joskowicz, Miguel Luciano, Tristana 1920s to the present, and will be accompanied by a Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Margarita Aguilar, and Noel Macció, Chico MacMurtrie, Enrique Méndez de Hoyos, 190-page catalogue co-published by El Museo del Valentin, with project coordinator Melisa Luján, is Yucef Merhi, neuroTransmitter, Vicente Razo, Aixa Barrio and MoMA. presented. Accompanied by 48-page exhibition Requena, Ryan Rivera, Raimundo Rubio Huidobro, catalogue and a 316-page, 5-volume boxed set, the SEPTEMBER 15, 2004–FEBRUARY 2005 Karin Schneider, Alejandra Seeber, Leticia Stella exhibition debuts at Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, Serra, Rigoberto Torres, and Judi Werthein. The FL (July 20–October 19, 2003); and travels to the curated by Fatima Bercht (El Museo), Carolyn Carr exhibition is accompanied by an 82-page catalogue. Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY (March (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NOVEMBER 18 21–May 16, 2004); Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Washington DC), and Marion Oettinger (San Antonio Julián Zugazagoitia is appointed Executive Director Institute, Utica, NY (October 31, 2004–January Museum of Fine Arts, TX), debuts at El Museo. This of El Museo del Barrio. Zugazagoitia previously 2, 2005); Seton Hall University, South Orange, nationally-travelling exhibition will include over 100 served as Executive Assistant to the Director, and NJ, (Spring 2005); and Thomasville Cultural works from collections in the United States, the Project Director, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Center, Thomasville, GA (Summer 2005), among Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America, spanning from Museum (NY). other venues. pre-Columbian to contemporary periods. 2003 2004 After several years of fundraising, El Museo MARCH 13–OCTOBER 5 undertakes a major capital project to renovate its FOCOS: Rafael Tufiño: Painter of the People/Pintor facitly at the Heckscher Building, including the Fifth del Pueblo, organized by the Museo de Arte de Avenue façade, the 104th Street entrance, the lobby, Puerto Rico (San Juan) and curated by Dr. Teresa and the museum shop. Tió, is presented. The retrospective includes over

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