Open Studios Returns In-Person May 21-22
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, Artists Alliance Inc., and the Clemente Residents are pleased to announce the 25th edition of The Clemente Open Studios on Saturday, May 21 from 4-8p and Sunday, May 22, 2022 from 2-6p.
The Latino Media Summit is Coming to The Clemente!
The Latino Media Summit is the destination for celebrating the best in journalism for and by Latinx communities across the U.S. For the first time in two years, the 2022 LMS will return in person, with options to live-stream sessions, for two full days of community, learning, and inspiration in both Spanish and English.
City Leaders, Elected Officials, Community and Cultural Organizations, and NYC Speaks Celebrate Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement Wins
On Friday, April 29, 2022, at The Clemente, City Hall leadership, elected officials, community and cultural organizations, and NYC Speaks joined together to welcome The People's Bus being permanently stationed at The Clemente Center. The People’s Bus is a former Department of Corrections bus used to transport people detained on Rikers Island from 2009 to 2021. It has been transformed, with input from New Yorkers, into a community center on wheels with the purpose of engaging New Yorkers in civic life through beauty and joy.
New Season of ON DISPLAY From AllArtsTV to feature Clemente Exhibition
On Display, an ALL ARTS original series showcasing the critical role cultural organizations can play in shaping public debate and advancing cultural equity, returns this May with host and series producer Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham. Through interviews with museum professionals, cultural workers and artists, the series investigates how cultural institutions address critical issues including climate change, colonialism and the recentering of Black and Indigenous histories and experiences.
NY Art Maps Feature LAZO at The Clemente
LAZO which in Spanish meaning ‘tie’ or ‘link’, is an art collective that brings together artists and related practitioners of Latin American & Caribbean descent to create participatory projects and exhibitions. LAZO’s members are Claudia Cortínez, Rodrigo Moreira, Mauricio Cortes Ortega, and Alva Mooses.
Alexis Massol presentará en Massachusetts y Nueva York la traducción al inglés de su libro “Casa Pueblo, cultiva esperanzas”
El fundador de la organización de autogestión de Adjuntas fue el ganador del prestigioso premio Goldman hace 20 años
WATCH: Townhall with Councilman Chris Marte
The Clemente, Fourth Arts Block, and Think!Chinatown co-hosted an LES arts and culture townhall with new Councilmember Christopher Marte of Council District 1 Manhattan.
From Hyperallergic: “POC-led Orgs of NYC Call for $100M to Address ‘Cultural Inequity’”
New York City is often touted as the world’s arts capital, but many of those who help shape its vibrant creative ecosystem remain both under-recognized and under-funded.
Review of El Futuro Es Ya, Intervenxions
Alexis Mendoza’s El Futuro Es Ya exhibition at The Clemente Center on the Lower East Side is an Afrofuturist exploration of time and space. The artworks featured in Mendoza’s show span various mediums of sculpture, paintings, and screenprinting, presenting a vision of futurity that is inextricably linked to Black diasporic histories and present realities.
Partnering with HUE Arts
The Clemente is excited to be a partner and advisor of Hue Arts NYC, a mapping initiative and coalition of POC-led arts and culture organizations calling for greater equity and visibility across #NYC! Check out the interactive map and learn more at hueartsnyc.org.
The New Yorker: Why Puerto Rico is Mourning a Musician
Tito Matos gave voice to an island in crisis.
PERCUSSIONIST HÉCTOR “TITO” MATOS, A BASTION OF THE PLENA
The country’s cultural scene is in mourning. Puerto Rican percussionist musician Hector “Tito” Matos passed away this morning at the age of 53. For decades, the exponent specialized in promoting two traditional Puerto Rican rhythms: the bomba and the plena.
CBS New York: “Teatro SEA Founder Manuel Moran On Celebrating Three Kings Day Amid Pandemic”
Three Kings Day profile on CBS New New York
“Stone Yucayeque:” Old San Juan’s 500-Year History on Display at The Clemente
The exhibition recognizes the 500 years since the fortified stone city's founding in 1521 by Spanish colonizers and pays homage to the Taínos by using a word from their language, Yucayeque, which means village or city. With work by Puerto Ricans and non-Puerto Rican artists alike, this exhibition is nostalgic, romantic, and, most importantly, political, conveying the complex history of the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Old San Juan is the oldest continuously inhabited post-European contact settlement under US jurisdiction, the second oldest in the entire Western Hemisphere, and located in the oldest colony in the world. As such, the exhibition acknowledges both its current and past history, its place in the land of the Tainos, its culture and people, and the enslaved Africans who built this fortified city.
