Motivated by the opportunity to explore what Cuba means for us on our own terms
Rosa Lowinger is a writer and an art conservator. A Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation and the American Academy in Rome, she is the author of Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005) and many articles on Cuban art, architecture, and preservation. Rosa is president and chief…
Patricia García-Vélez Hanna (b. 1977, Miami, FL.) is currently the Art Director for The Related Group, a real estate development company in Miami, Florida. In this capacity she works with developers, architects and designers to identify artists and commission site-specific work for all of Related’s projects. Prior to working at Related, she served as the…
Dr. Lillian Manzor is Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive at the University of Miami, and curator of Cuban Culture on the Edge. Selected publications include: Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en Estados Unidos (La Habana, 2005 – the first anthology on US Cuban theater…
Iryna Kanishcheva, MBA is the founder and curator of several groundbreaking urban art projects. Among them the first urban art initiative in North Central Florida, 352walls; one of the biggest mural projects in the world, Art United Us, well-known for its row of significant artworks from 6 to 26-stories tall and focus on the problem…
Carlos Ochoa is a photographer, journalist and musician. Born in Peru, Ochoa graduated from San Marcos University in Lima with a degree in audio visual and social communications. He is also trained in classic and Andean guitar and other instruments native to Peru. Since 1991 he has been living in Miami where he has performed with…
Anelys Alvarez Muñoz (b. 1983, Havana) is a Miami based art historian who earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in the University of Havana, Cuba. In 2010, she also completed a graduate program in Museum Studies at Florida International University where she served as a consultant for the Frost Art Museum. Alvarez-Muñoz has taught art courses…
Ana Clara Silva graduated from Tulane University in 2007 and moved back to Miami to begin her career just as the redevelopment of neighborhoods like Wynwood and the Design District were beginning to shape the city as we experience it today. While pursuing a master’s degree in Arts Administration & Policy (SAIC / MA, 2011), she focused on what kind…