Oct
8
1:00 PM13:00

The Youth Art Fund. Life Impulse—A Presentation by Neida Peñalver

The Cuban Artists Fund & Residency Unlimited are pleased to share The Youth Art Fund. Life Impulse—A Presentation by Neida Peñalver Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 1:00pm

Join In person at: Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street (main green church doors), Brooklyn NY 11231

Join Virtually at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81203909645?pwd=YaXgzUajvpO0oWEKitt2VX8NOanyX1.1

In this presentation, curator Neida Peñalver (currently in residency at CAF & RU) will talk about the Fondo de Arte Joven (The Youth Art Fund), a cultural platform founded in Cuba in January 2023. It is currently functioning as an inclusive space for creation, significantly impacting the new generation of artists and curators.

With an extensive list of visual artists in the disciplines of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, sculpture, installation, video installation, performance, video art, digital art and multidisciplinary projects, the Fund constitutes a point of reference for contemporary art produced in Cuba. It is a key element in the emergence of innovative proposals that explore contemporary issues such as identity, migration, diaspora, and technology.

The platform operates through a system of open calls, contests and awards with the objective of facilitating access to resources, supporting the execution of creative projects, and offering exhibition opportunities to artists selected by specialized juries. As a catalyst for contemporary Cuban art, the Youth Art Fund works to create collaborative networks among Cuban and international artists, art critics and curators. It manages the Havana-based gallery Salón Blanco and organizes the annual competition for emerging visual artists malaYerba.

Neida Peñalver is a historian, researcher, art curator, and essayist, holding a master’s degree in Gender Studies from the University of Havana. She works as a museologist at the Servando Cabrera Moreno Library Museum and a coordinator of the Commission of experts that certifies the authenticity of his works. She was the compiler of the book Epifanía del cuerpo. Erotismo y homoerotismo en la obra de Cabrera Moreno (The Body’s Epiphany. Eroticism and Homoeroticism in Works of Cabrera Moreno), 2014, and co-author of the books Mírame así. “Habaneras” y “guajiros” de Servando Cabrera Moreno (Look at Me Like This. “Habaneras” and “Guajiros” by Servando Cabrera Moreno), 2017 and La hora azul. Servando Cabrera Moreno en la Fundación Los Carbonell (The blue hour. Servando Cabrera Moreno at the Los Carbonell Foundation), 2023. Neida is also the General Coordinator of the cultural platform Fondo de Arte Joven (Youth Art Fund), a cultural platform, which collaborates with several emerging visual artists.

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Open Studio with Harold Garcia V, with Co-Host Thomas Nickles Project
Dec
10
11:00 AM11:00

Open Studio with Harold Garcia V, with Co-Host Thomas Nickles Project

The Cuban Artists Fund and the Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to invite you to join us for an open studio featuring the work of Harold Garcia V. Harold García V is a Cuban artist based in New York. He studied visual arts at the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy (2004) in Havana, Cuba. García has an active practice as a visual artist. He recently installed a solo exhibition at the United Nations in New York at the Albanian building and presented two lectures, “A Guilt-Ridden Landscape” and “Welcome to The Everglades: An Investigative Project on Art and Environment,” at the United Nations and DDLS. García has also directed the “Reimagining Florida” workshop at two elementary schools in Miami and operates an online shop to collect funds to Help children learn to love and protect the Florida Everglades. His work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Verona, Washington, Havana, and Vienna.

The CAF studio is located at 208 East 51st Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan. Studio visits are also available by appointment, contact Carlos Pomares for arrangements. carlos {at} cubanartistsfund org

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Open Studio with Grethell Rasua
Nov
12
11:00 AM11:00

Open Studio with Grethell Rasua

Join CAF for an open studio featuring the art of Grethell Rasua, including works-in-process. Rasua graduated from the ISA-Instituto Superior de Arte (2009), and the Cátedra de Arte de Conducta (2007). She also holds a degree in humanities from Piarist Schools of Cuba at the University of Veracruz (2009). She has worked as a specialist in visual arts and as a curator at CDAV-Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. From 2013 to 2017, Grethell served as a professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro in Havana, directing a workshop on students’ thesis projects and art critique. Rasua maintains an active practice as a visual artist and as a curator of exhibitions. Her works have been presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Havana Biennials (2006, 2009, 2012), the Mercosur Biennial (2013), and in other spaces such as the Sao Paulo Art Museum, Art Museum of the Americas, MNBA Havana, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, among others.

The CAF studio is located at 208 East 51st Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan. Studio visits are also available by appointment, contact Carlos Pomares for arrangements. carlos {at} cubanartistsfund org

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Adrian Fernandez Open Studio
May
7
11:00 AM11:00

Adrian Fernandez Open Studio

The Cuban Artists Fund is pleased to announce that our artist-in-residence, Adrian Fernandez Milanes, will be featured at our next Open Studio event on Saturday, May 7. This event is co-hosted by our collaborative partners at Residency Unlimited where Adrian is participating in a two-month residency program. Event details:

Date: Saturday, May 7 from 11AM – 6PM.

Location: CAF Studio, 208 E 51st Street, 2nd fl.

Details: Proof of vaccination required.

RSVP: Reply to carlos@cubanartistsfund.org

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William Perez's Torn Canvass
Mar
11
to Mar 19

William Perez's Torn Canvass

William Perez Open Studio

Torn Canvass

March 11 & 12, 18 & 19, 2022 by appointment only, Contact carlos@cubanartistsfund.org

CAF’s Manhattan Studio is located at 208 East 51st Street, 2nd floor

 

Join CAF’s artist-in-residence for his first public presentation of Torn Canvass.  In the inaugural Torn Canvass process, William created an original red drawing on canvass (Torn Canvass No I) which he later cut into 60 segments. William describes Torn Canvas No I as his first work to live two lives: it dies and reincarnates itself, leaving behind the memory of what it was to multiply itself into 60 fragments that each have their own lives and destinies. Torn canvas No I is a work that focuses on the event and makes the client the custodian of its existence: the opportunity to be custodians of the documentation of the work from the beginning of its gestation until the moment of its transformation turns the client into an accomplice who participates in the work's transcendence. In a general sense, Torn canvas No I, like the great authors of humanity, transgresses itself and focuses its essential objective on the transformative action of creation.

The exhibition at the CAF studio will feature Torn Canvass No I fragments as well as works-in-process for future renditions of his process.

Experience an excerpt of the project through this video: https://theingenio.com/William_Perez/William_Perez_Torn_Canvas.mp4

A limited number of Torn Canvass fragments will be available by the artist for purchase with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the artist.

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Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez’s Ser que Estar
Feb
12
to Feb 20

Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez’s Ser que Estar

Join the artist at the CAF studio for a one-on-one experience featuring an array of collaged and assembled drawings and paintings. This selection of works is composed of a variety of materials including dyed textiles, hand-molded paper, hand-drawn elements, and painted forms. When describing her work, Maria explained, “When combined, these materials become redefined, and create a new space for forms of representation to operate. The ongoing re-definition of spirituality and identity is something members of the Caribbean nationalities and descent, like myself, must do each day. Through these collages, creolization will occur physically in the art object, creating a mirror of the creolized physicality and spirituality present within its viewers.” 

 

Born in Holguín Cuba in 1992, she received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015 and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2020. Rodríguez Jiménez participated in residencies such as the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in 2016 and SOMA Summer in 2019. María was selected as a 2020-2021 Fulbright Fellow for Brazil. In 2021, Maria participated in a residency program offered by Residency Unlimited and the Cuban Artists Fund. She is represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami Beach.  She is represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami Beach.

 

CAF’s Studio is located at 208 East 51st Street, 2nd floor. Reservations Required, no drop in visitation please. Email carlos@cubanartistsfund.org for reservations. Masks and proof of vaccination is required.

 

Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez: 

https://www.mariadlarj.com/  @mareyuh

 

Representation: David Castillo Gallery: https://davidcastillogallery.com/

 

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