The interviewee is Christopher Cruz Soto. He is the house manager/ security/ technical director/ Fire Guard at The Clemente. He started working in 2013 at Teatro Sea, which is an organization in residence at The Clemente, then transitioned into working under The Clemente. Below is a snippet of an interview in which he describes the…
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Blogging for The Clemente- “There is no promised land, we are the promised land” Brian Buckley on La tierra prometida/ The Promised Land
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRO_QCpgKYT Brian Buckley is a photographer and artist in residence at The Clemente since 2013. Inspired by Clemente Soto Vélez’s poem La tierra prometida #18, he aimed to create La tierra prometida as a glowing beacon for all to see and hear, so we can find our way, again. Imitation gold leaf illuminates The…
Final Reflection at The Clemente!
It is bittersweet that my research has come to an end with The Clemente. I never knew that something so marvelous was right around the corner from me until applying for this fellowship. I am immensely grateful to meet and be a part of such a wholesome community. Throughout these ten weeks, I gathered research…
International Puppet Fringe Live and In Action!
International Puppet Fringe Festival unifies international puppet theater companies and the public in a celebration of puppetry. Events include puppet shows, artist talks, and short films hosted by Teatro Sea at The Clemente. When I first arrived at The Clemente, Monxo (curator of Puppets of New York at The Museum of the City of…
Blogging for The Clemente- In Conversation with Oneika Russell, Petrina Dacres, and Najah Aldridge on Transformation: Objects and Images in Relation
Top: Najah Aldridge and Oneika Russell; Bottom: Petrina Dacres Oneika Russell (Visual Artist) and Petrina Dacres (Researcher and Curator) are creative and cultural professionals at Tide Rising Art Projects . Their installation of Transformation: Objects and Images has been showing at the Clemente Soto Veléz Cultural and Education Center throughout July 2021, as part…
Najah’s Visual Interpretation of The Clemente
Here is my interpretation of the mapping of The Clemente Key The first floor- currently displaying La Tierra Prometida with the gold lighting at the entrance. When you walk into The Clemente and turn to the right there is the LES gallery. I’ve viewed Regla:Soul of a Community and En Comunidad: Latinx Photography Now…
Installations at The Clemente
The Power of Art & Literature at The Clemente
“There are some things that art and literature can do for us that other analytical tools cannot.” This is the basis of my research. This is the statement that I plan to elaborate on for the rest of my professional journey. I chose The Clemente because I wanted to elaborate on the ways in which…
Clemente’s Right to Loisaida
As previously discussed in the last post, The Clemente holds a widespread amount of partnerships inside the building and all around New York City. These cultural art education centers uplift one another by using their platforms to support each other’s messaging. Many of the organizations that The Clemente houses like Arts for Art derive from…
The Field of The Clemente
The Clemente is home to a variety of other cultural art education organizations. There are about twelve organizations in residence at The Clemente that also intend to preserve, present, and cultivate a specific culture. These organizations are: Teatro SEA, Mark Degarmo Dance, Latin American Theater Experiment Associates (LATEA), Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), The…