The aim is to broaden an understanding of Cuban art beyond nation and diaspora
Program: Phase 1 Havana, Cuba: May 27 – June 5, 2015
To facilitate an encounter between Cuban-American artists from Miami and their counterparts on the island. This initial phase of the dialogues program marked the first time that a group of visual artists from Miami traveled to Cuba as a group and was invited by an official institution in Havana.
The program included private studio visits with artists, guided tours with museum curators, meetings with directors and other cultural actors from a range of institutions, talks at the Ludwig Foundation, as well as a two-day symposium at Casa de las Americas.
Casa de las Américas is the official institution in Cuba that organized and hosted a two-day symposium open to the public featuring panel discussions with leading curators, critics and scholars from both Miami and Havana. For more images about these visits please go to GALLERY.
Symposium
Casa de las Américas: Day 1
Panel I: Identidad cultural, diáspora y nación (Cultural Identity, Nation and Diaspora).
Panelists: Odette Bello (Art Historian, University of Havana, art in the Cuban diaspora), Jesús Arboleya (Historian and former diplomat, author of Cuba y los cubanoamericanos: El fenómeno migratorio cubano) and Elizabeth Cerejido. Moderator: Ana Niria Albo (of the Latino Studies Program at Casa de las Americas)
Panel II: Arte Cubano: Diálogos (Cuban Art: Dialogues).
Panelists included the following Havana and Miami artists: (Juana Valdés, Manny Prieres, Leyden Rodríguez Casanova, Bert Rodríguez , José A. Figueroa, Lázaro Saavedra, Felipe Dulzaides). Moderator: Elizabeth Cerejido (Cuban-American independent curator)
Casa de las Américas: Day 2
Panel III: Arte, historiografía, circulación y consumo (Art: Historiography, Circulation and Consumption).
Panelists: Magalys Espinosa (critic), Sandra Sosa (critic and writer), Anelys Alvarez Muñoz (Cuban born, Miami-based art historian and assistant curator of The Related Group). Moderator: Nahela Hechevarría (Curator of Visual Arts at Casa de las Américas)
Panel IV: Arte Cubano: Diálogos (Cuban Art: Dialogues).
Panelists included the following Havana and Miami artists: Glenda León, Marcos Valella, Humberto Díaz, Antonia Wright, Ruben Millares, Esterio Segura, Reynier Leyva Novo, and Manny Prieres. Moderator: Cristina Figueroa