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RETRO/INTRO/SPECTIVES

by Elizam Escobar

• RETROS/INTROS/PECTIVAS
Elizam Escobar
Artis / June 2010 - September 2010

This exhibit is a combination of a previous installation at Polvo in
June of 2006 and the elaboration of new works which are also a series
of combining techniques that intertwine with earlier works, documents
and mixed images to form a whole of comings and goings between that
two-decade long period of imprisonment and the subsequent works from a
decade that feels like two.

The installation started from a series of
drawings I did in prison about jail bars transmuting into sculptures.
From there, constructions, mixed media and three-dimensional works
emerged. The “extension” of those pieces has taken different, but
limited, forms, due to the issue of transportation. The new works have
trace marks of both before and after the installation, which makes it
hard to know what came before and what came after.

Here there is a
type of self-intervention and variations where there are transferences
and painting over transparencies, documents and reproductions altered
in scale and context, sequences, series and digital pieces. The theme
of jail bars and the prison experience have imposed an
autobiographical and political atmosphere, but always through the
symbolic of art as an exchange between the spectators and the work.

Buen aprovecho.

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  50 Años de Claridad en IPRAC

50 Años de Claridad

 

El 1ro de junio del 2009 CLARIDAD, el periódico de la Nación Puertorriqueña cumplió 50 años de publicación ininterrumpida. Desde ese momento se celebra una JORNADA CONMEMORATIVA del 50 ANIVERSARIO DE CLARIDAD, con múltiples actividades en Puerto Rico, Estados Unidos y otros países en America Latina. La primera actividad de la Jornada fue la Exposición de Fotos en el Centro Internacional de Prensa Internacional en La Habana, Cuba, país que ha sido solidario con nuestra lucha de independencia.

Durante la Jornada nos proponemos exaltar la importancia de CLARIDAD a través de su historia en nuestra lucha por la independencia, los derechos humanos y civiles y la justicia social, por un periodismo vertical en defensa de los trabajadores, del medioambiente, y de nuestros recursos naturales y en contra de militarismo, la corrupción, la discriminación y la represión.

La muestra fotográfica de esta exposición en Chicago es organizada por la Jornada para la Celebración del 50 ANIVERSARIO de CLARIDAD que dirige el Lcdo. José Enrique Ayoroa Santaliz , el Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño Juan Antonio Corretjer dirigido por José E. López, y el Instituto Puertorriqueño de las Artes y la Cultura (IPRAC). El Comité de Fotos y Arte que dirige Evelyn Claudio Cartagena coordinó los preparativos de la exposición que fue diseñada por el Vicepresidente de la Bienal de Fotos de Puerto Rico, el fotógrafo José Rafael “Pucho” Charrón (curador) y el fotoperiodista Ricardo Alcaraz.

 

 

 

 

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School Engagement Initiative (SEI2007-08)
 
The School Engagement Initiative (SEI2007-08) places community artists at local schools towards the creation of Arts Integrated curriculum-based projects that address the learning needs of students as well as issues of community development. SEI supports student academic achievement in the following ways:

By reflecting Puerto Rican/Latino and African-American cultures of the neighborhood

By creating connections between students and their communities
By exploring young people’s ideas on community development
By exploring young people’s ideas about the arts

By creating service-learning projects for young people to contribute directly to community development
SEI2007-08 places 8 community artists at 4 Humboldt Park schools:

Lowell Elementary - 3320 W. Hirsch, Chicago, IL
Stowe Fine Arts Elementary - 3444 W. Wabansia, Chicago, IL
Cuarto Año High School - 1116 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School - 2739 W. Division, Chicago, IL

The School Engagement Initiative (SEI) is an educational/outreach program supported by Building Community through the Arts (BCA). SEI receives financial support from LISC-Chicago, City of Chicago Cultural Outreach Programs and National Endowment for the Arts.

NEW HOURS

Mon,Tues, & Friday:

10am - 2pm (by appointment only)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC3pm - 7pm

Saturday:

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 9am - 3pm

Wed, Thurs, & Sunday:

CLOSED (exceptions made for tours, fields trips & events scheduled in advance)

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