Sancocho LIVE!: Catastrophe, Resistance and Joy. Produced in collaboration with #PRSyllabus and CUNY’s Center for the Humanities (the Graduate Center). This three-part virtual event will bring together scholars, writers, artists, and activists to think about how “non-essential” communities, workers, and institutions are responding to the intersecting catastrophes of the present.
Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida. Produced and commissioned exhibition curated by architect and scholar Nandini Bagshee based on the book Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side at the Loisaida Center. 2019.
Valor y Cambio. Co-producer, partner and part of the NYC team to bring, network, and implement the artistic social currency project to the city, headquartered at Loisaida Center, followed by visits to El Barrio institutions. 2019.
Pasado Y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019. Producer and Co-curator of multi-sited exhibition commissioned and funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation. 2019.
Loisaida Restoration Projects. Developed / co-produced initiative to restore key artworks made by Loisaida folk/outsider artists and icons that have significantly contributed to the character, cultural organizing and aesthetic representation of the neighborhood. 2017- 2019.
La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues. Commissioned and co-produced exhibit and public programs on the history of community muralism in the LES. Rated Top 10 art shows to visit in the Lower East Side by the New York Times. 2017.
Garbagia Project Series. Commissioned and incubated the formation of a local gleaners art collective and community based art program using place-based pedagogy and recycled materials to equip participants in using creative strategies to address the city’s urgent issues through neighborhood histories. 2016-2019.
Presente! The Young Lords in New York (Loisaida). Curator and producer of historical exhibit and roster of public program. Featured as 20 Most Memorable New York Museum Shows of 2015 by ArtNet, and among The Best Art of 2015 by the New York Times. 2015.
Sense of the Lense: Regarding Urban Survival and Resurgence in the Photography of Lisa Kahane & Marlis Momber. Curator of exhibit and discussion exploring the conditions that catalyzed the artists unique views and engagement with two symbiotic neighborhoods through the twin lenses of photography and social practice.
The Production of Nabe. Initiated and curated forum and original production series to energize civic responsibility, converse and connect around place-based urban and cultural policy issues -historical and contemporary- through a diversity of media engagements with original thinkers and authors, oral histories, archival activism, documentary artists, and exhibitions.
South Bronx Cantastoria for People’s Climate March. co-producer, community liason, participant of street theater project between AgitArte, Papel Machete, and South Bronx Unite. 2014.
Los Muros Hablan El Barrio/The Bronx, NYC. Co-produced and coordinated two panoramic public art projects in Mott Haven, a panel discussion with art historians and graffiti legends Lee Quinones and Daze at Bronx Art Gallery. 2013.
Mott Haven-Port Morris Waterfront Plan. Organized South Bronx Unite strategic waterfront re-envisioning sessions, in collaboration with CUNY, Columbia, Pratt, and the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and recommended for priority status in the New York State Open Space Conservation Plan. 2012.
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, artistic collaborator for site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York by artist / theorist Gregory Sholette. Queens Museum. 2012.
The Place in Place of the Place. Curator / producer of group exhibit at a venue conceivably positioned beneath and beyond the ‘culture as capital’ and arbitrariness of what is center and periphery. 2009.
Out of Bounds Trialectics. Curator of a multi-media event and exhibit part of CIRCA Puerto Rico International Art Fair. 2008.
IN/OUT ethnic, IN/OUT technic, IN/OUT entic. Curator of multi-media installation part of the Out of Bounds Trialectics project, commissioned by NYU’s Department of Latino Studies. 2007.
Noricua: Performing the Living City. Co-curator of multi-genre performance event for the opening of the New York-Berlin Festival commissioned by The House of World Cultures, Berlin (in junction with the New York States of Mind exhibition sponsored by Queens Museum of the Arts). 2007.
The Bronx Salon Series. Producer of a platform for public discussion of urban issues in the private environment of a regular house. The series was launched by distinguished professor Marshall Berman with a reading and discussion from his last book, On the Town. 2005-2010.
IndyGestando music festival. Producer/curator of Latino electronic music and performance with performance by Mima and Superaquello for the 7th annual Latin Americam Music Conference (LAMC). 2006.
Constructivismo 2006. Curator / producer of multi-disciplinary group show exhibit on the contemporary Constructivist movement at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. 2006.
‘Spanic Attack: 3rd International Assault. Producer / developer of a collaborative festival of dance and music workshops, panel, concerts, poetry readings and film screenings. Sponsored by Centro Cultural Espana (CCE) Lima., Peru. 2004.
La Marginal. Curator of group exhibition by 4 respected mid-career visual artists -Nayda Collazo-Lloréns, Ivelisse Jiménez, Miguel Luciano – which studied the connective side roads traveled between San Juan and New York. Sponsored and commissioned by Centro Cultural Espana (CCE) Lima, Perú. 2004.