Category: news
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Everybody Should Be Honored
The Hunts Point Fish Parade, an annual event in the Bronx, combines art, community celebration, and environmental protest. Led by artists, activists, and youth, the parade symbolizes the fight for…
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Fish Parade celebrates 20th anniversary
Community members turned out for the return of Hunts Point’s annual Fish Parade on Saturday. In turn, they got to enjoy food vendors, dance performances and arts activities.
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Fish Parade on Bronxnet
Rhina speaks to The POINT CDC’S Artist in Residency Hatuey Ramos-Fermin as they discuss The 20th Annual Fish Parade highlighting environmental awareness, and community advocacy within The Bronx.
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Hatuey Ramos-Fermín to Work in Partnership with THE POINT CDC & NOCD-NY
Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, THE POINT CDC, and NOCD-NY announced today that they received an Artist Employment Program (AEP) grant from Creatives Rebuild New York
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Streets for Culture
Join us for a roundtable discussion on shaping future streets for culture with Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, Jennifer Nitzky, Elena Ketelsen González, and Streets Ahead Culture Working Group members.
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Exploring the Field: Equity and Arts Programmimng
Hatuey Ramos-FermÍn and Valeria Miranda, experienced leaders in community programming, offered insights into their professional journeys in the arts sector, and the path that led them to leadership roles in…
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LP Documents
Tune in to hear about collaborative public art projects in New York City creatively addressing issues like im/migration, neighborhood identity, gender justice, and more.
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Streets Ahead Working Groups
In the Fall of 2021, Urban Design Forum’s Streets Ahead convened interdisciplinary Working Groups made up of our Forum Fellows to advance a set of visionary proposals and tools for…
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Power After the Pandemic: Rebuilding our Post-Covid Cities
“While I’m organizing at the legislative level and pushing my colleagues, I’m also funneling information that’s helpful to the ground for the work that [organizers are] doing, and we’re coordinating,…
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Claiming Public Space
Space is not neutral. Public space is not equally accessible, but can depend upon race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, economic status, age, and other markers of identity.
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The Nonprofit That Puts Art Inside Laundromats (And Wherever Else People Are)
Originally posted at Next City, written by Emily Nonko Risë Wilson developed the concept behind The Laundromat Project in the late 1990s while attending graduate school at New York University and living…
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Making Art, Building Community, & Creating Change through Abundance (exhibition)
In the context of the Hindsight 2020 conference, I curated an exhibition celebrating 5 years of the Kelly Street Collaborative. From 2014-2019, The Laundromat Project collaborated with Workforce Housing Group,…
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Workshop: Practicing Abundance: A Model for Creative Community Building
Led this workshop as part of the Artplace Summit. What can a mindset of abundance, rather than scarcity, do for communities? We’ll explore the Laundromat Project’s engagement with the Kelly…
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Making Art, Building Community, And Creating Change Through Abundance
Workshop led for the Artworld Conference Defining Value(s) in the art world Arts and culture institutions wield influence, impacting and transforming social issues in our communities. For an institution to…
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The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives
The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives (edited by Allison Guess & Prithi Kanakamedala) is a book of ten commissioned essays by archivists, activists, artists, and historians that reflects…
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Saying Goodbye to Essex Street Market with Art
The end is nigh. With no Hercules in sight, the multi-headed Hydra better known as Essex Crossing is erasing memories all over the place. In an effort to assuage the…
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In, Of, and Crossing Essex
By Fall of 2018, Essex Market will prepare for its relocation as part of the Essex Crossing development. At this time of transition, In, Of and Crossing Essex will present three artist…
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On being an ‘artist and….’
Listen to the podcast at FAB NYC. Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos Fermin (also known as Meta Local Collaborative) are Bronx based artists who continue to transform our understanding of…
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Parade of Perseverance
El Museo prepares for 41st Annual Three Kings Day Parade Story by Gregg McQueen Parade of PerseveranceDesfile de la perseverancia Four decades later, the three kings (and queens) still reign. The East…
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Different strokes for different folks
art in The Bronx There is no art market in the Bronx. Things are community based, not market based in the Bronx. — Blanka Amezkua, artist [1] The Bronx has a rich, diverse,…
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INTERVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT
Through a decade, The Laundromat Project worked for the residents of New York’s historic minority neighborhoods to get their voices heard. The tools for it? Art and design.
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Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
By Eddie Small For DNAInfo CONCOURSE — A Bronx artist wants to hear about your struggles. Artist Hatuey Ramos Fermín has set up an interactive map of the city as part…
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Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
BY MOSTAFA HEDDAYA for Blouin Artinfo The Bronx Museum of the Arts has long distinguished itself by its commitment to the communities that surround it, with its three-and-a-half decade…
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The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
by Vic Vaiana for Hyperallergic The Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and Loisaida Inc. are exhibiting the work of the artists and activists in the Young Lords Party…
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When the Young Lords Were Outlaws in New York
by Holland Cotter for the New York Times On July 26, 1969, a group of young Latinos stood in the band shell in Tompkins Square Park, in the East Village,…
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Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
By Shant Shahrigian for the Riverdale Press A large banner with an AK-47 silhouetted in front of a cutout of the Puerto Rican flag greets visitors to the Bronx Museum…
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Emerging artists take the Bronx
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The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Three New York City venues look back at the Puerto Rican nationalist group By MARK ARMAO for the Wall Street Journal When garbage started piling up on East Harlem sidewalks in…
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Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Work by more than 70 emerging artists from across New York featured in Bronx Calling by VICTORIA STAPLEY-BROWN for The Art Newspaper Twice each year, 18 emerging artists living in the…
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Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial
Jessica Vaughn, Glory, 2014, Digital Photograph, 30 x40 in Courtesy of the artist July 9 to September 20, 2015 Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial…
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Marchers demand cleaner air, healthier food
By Rachel Brown for the Hunts Point Express Dozens of Hunts Point residents marched with nearly 400,000 demonstrators in the People’s Climate March in Manhattan this past Sunday, calling on…
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Boogie on the Boulevard
After two years of hard work from a diverse range of Bronx community members, I’m happy to report that Boogie on the Boulevard (formerly known as Car Free Sundays) is…
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‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
By: Erin Clarke for NY1 Link to original article and video A popular event from the past is being revived that will close the Grand Concourse for three days this…
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Latinos on the line
Latinos on the 6 Train Line: A Tour of BX Latino Environmentalists and More! First published on Bronx River Sankofa by Morgan Powell Let’s enjoy a few of the hundreds of…
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Community leaders looking to restore Bronx tradition by bringing ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Concourse Village
Bronx organizers and business leaders hope to bring ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Grand Concourse nearly two decades after the pedestrian-friendly event was axed by Giuliani administration BY JOEY SCARBOROUGH / NEW…
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A Bronx Blast From the Past: Car-Free Grand Concourse Gets CB 4 Support
by Stephen Miller for Streetsblog It’s been an on-again, off-again tradition for at least two decades: Turning the center lanes of the Grand Concourse into a car-free space for stress-free walking, biking…
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A NECESSARY SHIFT
EFA November 15 – December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 6-8pm A Necessary SHIFT is an exhibition and series of events that celebrates and highlights EFA’s Residency for Arts-Workers…
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RESIDENT SPOTLIGHT 2013: HATUEY RAMOS-FERMIN
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin is a participant in EFA’s 2013 Residency for Arts Workers as Artists. In addition to his art practice, Hatuey is the Media Lab Manager-Coordinator for the Teen Council…
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Ancestry and Spirit: Site Specific Performance in the Hunts Point Homes Residency
By Taja Lindley | June 2013 On a rainy day in May I’m making my way to the Bronx Academy for Arts and Dance (BAAD!). The walk from the 6…
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Core 77 Design Award Educational Initiative winner
The Project Funky Fresh that I was the leading Teaching Artist is part of this award Core 77 Design Award Educational Initiative EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES PROFESSIONAL WINNER DESIGNER / TEAM NAME…
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Bronx Museum Teen Council at New Leaning Times
Learn more about Teen Council here. To see more, sign up at New Learning Times and see the article here.
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Arin Rungjang on Cooking up “Golden Teardrop” for the Thai Pavilion in Venice
by Max Crosbie-Jones for Blouin ARTINFO BANGKOK — Conceptual artist Arin Rungjang was recently confirmed as one of two artists due to helm the Thai Pavilion at this summer’s Venice Biennale (the other being Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch).…
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WADE IN THE WATER AT BRONX RIVER ART CENTER
http://www.bronxnet.org/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv_html5/player.swf Hautey Ramos from Bronx River Art Center is back to discuss the Waterfront event happening at Bronx River Art Center.
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Process and Progress: Drew Manahan, Meta Local Collaborative & The Bronx River Alliance
On View from February 01 – February 23 Gallery Location: 305 E. 140th Street, #1A, Bronx, NY 10454 Reception: Friday, February 1, 2013, 6-9pm GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday–Friday, 3pm–6:30pm /…
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Intensivdagarna 2012, Bronx Museum Teen Council presentation
[iframe src=”http://embed.bambuser.com/broadcast/3199826″ width=”460″ height=”310″ frameborder=”0″] http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Teen Council on Prezi
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Intensivdagarna 2012, Interview Hannie Chia and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Intensivdagarna 2012, Interviews Hannie Chia and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín about The Bronx Museum’s Teen Council Program before their presentation.
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Celebrating Conversing Bricks
Please join us on Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 6:30 PM @ Hostos Community College, to celebrate Hatuey Ramos-Fermin’s “Conversing Bricks” permanent public art installation. The installation was constructed from bricks…
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Center for Urban Pedagogy winner of the 2012 Curry Stone Design Prize.
Great job CUP, proud to be part of the team!
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Guest Lesson | Thinking Critically About Food in a Season of Plenty
By Suzie Boss for the Learning Network of the New York Times Go to related article » This is the second post in a series in which the education writer Suzie Boss suggests…
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Oceans / Golden Tear Drop (Thong Yod)
CEC ArtsLink in partnership with THE POINT CDC Presents “Oceans/Golden Tear Drop (Thong Yod)” November 2nd, 7-10pm 940 Garrison Avenue Bronx, NY 10474 Bronx-based artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and…
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Voices and Visions: Re-imagining America Media Exhibition
The Voices and Visions Re-imagining America Media Exhibition at the recent Imagining America national conference in New York City presented the work of artists and artist collectives whose practices articulate the mission of Imagining America…
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Art in Odd Places Model 2012
Street Cartographies will be part of this year’s Art in Odd Places! Fashion. Prototype. Pose. Imitate. Plan. System. These definitive words come together to create AiOP 2012: MODEL, a festival of…
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Voices and Visions: Re-Imagining America Media Exhibition
Voices and Visions: Re-Imagining America Media Exhibition. This is part of Imagining America National Conference, October 5-7 2012 721 Broadway, Lower Level, Rooms 010 & 014 Organized by Bill Aguado, former…
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How Do Supermarkets Decide Where to Open?
A funky, fresh look at how supermarkets work in urban neighborhoods By CUP for Gilt Taste Last year, we shared a fantastic video made by high school students on the food in…
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Bienal de Arte en el Bronx
Por: EFE para Telemundo Más de 75 artistas participan en la Tercera Bienal de Arte Latinoamericano en El Bronx, que se realiza bajo el tema de “correlación ilusoria” en un…
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Funky Fresh debut presentation
Who decides where supermarkets go? Does the Bronx have enough supermarkets? Does it matter? This summer, CUP collaborated with teaching artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and a group of Bronx public high…
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2 BX artists bring ‘Mind the Gap’ project to Mott Haven
2 BX artists bring ‘Mind the Gap’ project to Mott Haven by Bornx News 12 MOTT HAVEN – Two Bronx residents have launched a project in an attempt to bridge the…
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Mott Haven artists transform laundromat into interactive art site
By Patrick Wall for DNAinfo MOTT HAVEN — With its rumbling dryers and stinging smell of detergent, the Blue and White Laundromat on East 140th Street is a fine place…
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‘Paradise’ Boosts Bronx Arts Scene
By Sarah Ramirez for Norwood News The success of this spring’s “This Side of Paradise” exhibit, which took place at the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse, has people…
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Soundview Park Summer Festival 2012: City of Water Day in Your Neighborhood
Friends of Soundview Park annual celebration of the park and the Bronx waterfront! All activities are FREE and open to the public. Performances for all ages, family friendly fun and…
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An ‘Art of the 5’ shout-out!
By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews At the center of the “Art of the 5: A Shout Out to the Bronx” exhibit at the galleries of the Interchurch Center…
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Art show at Bronx Museum curated by local teens features artworks also by area teens
By Tanyanika Samuels / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS When “The Other I” art exhibit opens Thursday at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, it will be a triumph not only for the…
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This Side of a Postmodern Paradise: No Longer Empty in the Andrew Freedman Home
By Caroline Bauer for Untapped Cities The two-month run of This Side of Paradise, the much celebrated exhibit by No Longer Empty, is quickly coming to a close. Last minute viewers have…
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The Hive/El panal
Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan Several venues – San Juan Puerto Rico By Paco Barragán for ARTPULSE Magazine The Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan de Puerto Rico (The San Juan…
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Public Art Review: Taking it to the Streets
by Jules Rochielle for Public Art Review, Food for Thought Issue “Artists hit the road using creativity, communication, and food to address social issues.” This issue explores the theme of Food…
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Laundromat Project 2012 Cycle
We are excited to be part of the Laundromat Project Create a Change Artist Residency! Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and Elizabeth Hamby will turn their laundromat into a classroom environment in their…
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The Serrano Report, Vol. IX, #11
In the Bronx Unveiling Pro-Immigrant Art Made from Anti-Immigrant Bricks Jose Serrano’s Newsletter reports Last Saturday, Congressman Serrano joined Hostos Community College President Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez, community leaders, and…
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Unveiling Pro-Immigrant Art Made from Anti-Immigrant Bricks
In the Bronx Unveiling Pro-Immigrant Art Made from Anti-Immigrant Bricks Last Saturday, Congressman Serrano joined Hostos Community College President Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez, community leaders, and artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermín to…
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“Wall of Hope” artwork at Hostos Community College
By TANYANIKA SAMUELS for the New York Daily News Hundreds of bricks once used as anti-immigrant messages are finding a new artistic purpose in one of the borough’s most diverse communities.…
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Immigration Opponents’ Bricks Repurposed For A Respectful Bronx Artwork
By: Natasha Ghoneim for NY1 Immigration reform inspires passionate views, and hundreds of bricks sent to members of Congress to oppose amnesty have now formed a pro-immigrant artistic installation at…
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Un muro de tolerancia se alza en el Bronx.
POR: Carolina Ledezma / EDLP El Bronx.- En 2006, grupos antiinmigrantes se unieron para enviar a congresistas en Washington más de 20,000 ladrillos con consignas en pro de la construcció…
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Bill Aguado discusses upcoming “Conversing Bricks” Art Installation by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Bill Aguado discusses upcoming “Conversing Bricks” Art Installation by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin at Bronxnet
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Conversing Bricks
Printable Version Link Hostos Community College Bronx Lebanon Hospital & Bill Aguado Invite You to the Unveiling of Conversing Bricks A special art installation by artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermín Keynote Speaker…
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This Side of Paradise
Rebecca Rothberg for Whitehot Magazine The conflicted protagonists in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels, Amory Blaine of This Side of Paradise (literary inspiration for the title of No Longer Empty’s exhibition) and Jay Gatsby…
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A 5-year exhibition kicks off with a ‘Shout Out from the Bronx’
by TANYANIKA SAMUELS for the NY Daily News After losing her job, artist Melissa Calderón took out her grandmother’s sewing box and channeled her frustrations into embroidery. After losing her job, artist…
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This Side of Paradise: A Bronx Art and Culture Hub
by Christine Licata for Artlog Through June 1, the once insular and exclusive Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx has been transformed by site-specific exhibition facilitatorsNo Longer Empty into This Side of…
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Cyclists Plan a Month-Long Celebration of Bronx Biking for May
by Patrick Wall for DNAinfo GRAND CONCOURSE — Waves of helmeted cyclists could come rolling down the Grand Concourse next month as part of a project meant to draw attention to…
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…de la Trienal Poli/Gráfica: El Panal/TheHive y un contrapunto
por Julieta Muñoz para la revista Cruce “[N]uestra premisa es que la actitud apropiada es una apertura inteligente ante las manifestaciones del arte contemporáneo que implican una saludable sacudida frente…
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Works by 32 artists show borough’s many sides at Freedman Home
By Amora McDaniel for the Hunts Point Express Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering life as the home…
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ArtistS of the Week: Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
By Cathleen Cueto for Swings and Arrows My dear friends Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, two Bronx-based multimedia artists, are gearing up for a couple of fantastic projects this month. First,…
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Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Bloomfield College NJ
Visting Artist Lecture Series presents Hatuey Ramos Fermin, Fermin is an educator and multimedia artist who uses photography, video, installation, graphics, performance, maps and text to creatively investigate issues related…
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Uptown Palazzo Project
By RANDY KENNEDY for the NY Times When the Andrew Freedman Home opened in the Bronx in 1924, it looked like a limestone luxury liner sailing up the Grand Concourse, a grandiosity…
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CEC Artslink One Big City
CEC ArtsLink’s pioneering project One Big City, the first city-wide effort of its kind, will engage New York City’s diaspora communities through the collaborative projects of local artists and their colleagues…
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“HIP-HOP: THEN, NOW & TOMORROW,” PANEL on News 12
The second Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) roundtable was moderated by Bill Aguado of the Bronx Music Heritage Center with guests: Patty Dukes and Reph Starr of Circa 95, Steven…
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Bill Aguado, Bronx Music Heritage Center
The Shifting Communities Exhibition Series at the Bronx River Arts Center highlights the initiatives in culture and the arts that are currently instilled in American society. One of the goals…
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Share, Where? at Newtown Creek
Check out congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck touring Newtown Creek with CUP’s latest youth education project “Share, Where?” The booklet takes a look at NYC’s Fair…
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NYFA Immigrant Artist Project Newsletter
Transmit – Transit is a multimedia installation at “The (S) Files 2011.” One aspect of the piece is a video of interviews with Dominican cab drivers and dispatchers in the…
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Share, Where?
I was involved in this project as the teaching artist! Come and check it out! Where do you put the stuff that nobody wants but everyone needs? Join us on…
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ArtNexus Review of the Group Show The (S) Files 2011
ArtNexus ssue #82 01/09/2011 United States, New York Institution:El Museo del Barrio by: Raúl Díaz El Museo del Barrio with venues at Chashama at the Donnell, Socrates Sculpture Park…
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The People’s Potluck at Taller Boricua Gallery
On Thursday, July 14th, I was invited to share an evening of food, friendship, and conversation at The People’s Potluck, a collaborative dinner and discussion group exploring ideas concerning living…
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Love Thy Neighbor – East Harlem Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)
Eating healthy is easy if you have the know how and means (money and availability to healthy food) to do it.
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Review of EAst Harlem by Hatuey Ramos Fermin, The Barri-O-Rama Exhibit
The East Harlem Community Supported Kitchen Dinner ran in conjunction with the Barri-O-Rama exhibit at the Taller Boricua Gallery,
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El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
The “(S)” in this exhibition’s title stands for “Street,” and the show celebrates the “hood”—whether in East Harlem or El Salvador. Featuring the work of 75 Latino, Caribbean and Latin…
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WNYC mentions Transmit – Transit
WNYC art critic Carolina A. Miranda included Transmit – Transit as part of the must see at El Museo del Barrio’s S-Files Biennial. Quote from her article: “One of the…
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Vague Ideas of an Established World
“Being Puerto Rican is not only a state of reality,“ says Irizarry. “We were fed through our veins since childhood all the costumes of our rich culture and the pride…
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Reports of art scene’s death are exaggerated
Artists say change defines their relationship with Mott Haven Hatuey Ramos Fermin sits in the most famous apartment in Mott Haven, recording a podcast called “South Bronx Filter.” Fermin is…
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Barri-o-rama Hatuey Ramos Fermín
El artista plástico puertorriqueño Hatuey Ramos Fermín caminó por todas las calles de El Barrio en la ciudad de Nueva York tomando fotos de cada uno de los sitios donde…
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The America Project / The People’s Potlucks
The People’s Potlucks from MAPP International Productions a program based on Sekou Sundiata‘s The America Project, is an artist-led events that explore– through creative expression, personal stories, honest dialogue and a shared meal-issues of…
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EA s T Harlem as part of Barri-o-rama at Taller Boricua
Taller Boricua is proud to present “BARRI-O-RAMA” a group exhibition featuring artists Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Rosalinda González, Johnny Ramos, Hatuey Ramos Fermín, Emcee C.M., Master of None and Marna Chester. Incorporating…
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