Archives: Projects

  • Río Ambulante

    Río Ambulante

    Río Ambulante (mobile river) is a cargo bike equipped with art and print-making supplies, speakers, tables, and seating. It is deployed in public, community-accessible spaces s in the Bronx, facilitating…

  • Bronx Zine Machine

    Bronx Zine Machine

    Bronx Zine Machine uses writing, and drawing prompts to explore complex issues and produce a series of self-published magazines. Each participant created unique zines during the workshops, and exchange them…

  • Messages to go…

    Messages to go…

    Messages to go…, Hatuey Ramos-Fermín interviewed Essex Street Market’s vendors, learning about their experiences as business owners and documenting their unique perspectives on the role of the market within its…

  • Bronx Calling: The Third A.I.M. Biennial

    Bronx Calling: The Third A.I.M. Biennial

    Curated by Bronx-based artists Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier, Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial features the work of seventy-two emerging artists engaged in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)…

  • Vine pa’ echar candela, Young Lords office

    Vine pa’ echar candela, Young Lords office

    Vine pa’ echar candela, is an artistic reinterpretation inspired by the Bronx office of the Young Lords in collaboration with curator Johanna Fernández. The “office” connects past and present with…

  • Boogie on the Boulevard

    Boogie on the Boulevard

    Streets are the biggest public space in New York City. Nevertheless, these are mostly used for vehicular traffic. Boogie on the Boulevard re-imagines how a street, in this case, Grand…

  • Process and Progress

    Process and Progress

    Process and Progress: Brooke Singer, SLO Architecture, NYC Department of City Planning, 596 Acres, Bronx River Art Center’s Teen Project Studio Exhibition curated by Hatuey Ramos-Fermín for the Bronx River…

  • It’s not about you…

    It’s not about you…

    First published at Set To Signal by Hatuey Ramos-Fermín It’s not about you… The ashes were just getting settled and they started losing their warmth. You could hear a gush of…

  • Process and Progress: The Bronx River

    Process and Progress: The Bronx River

    Process and Progress: The Bronx River was produced in a partnership between Meta Local Collaborative & the Bronx River Alliance. It included an exhibition and a series of public programs focusing…

  • Oceans / Golden TearDrop (Thong Yod)

    Oceans / Golden TearDrop (Thong Yod)

    A multimedia exhibition, featuring video interviews, found and appropriated footage, photographs, a map, a cooking workshop, and a recipe that were  shared along side food, and live music performances. OCEANS…

  • Mind the Gap / La Brecha

    Mind the Gap / La Brecha

    This project is part of meta local collaborative Mind the Gap/La Brecha is a temporary art and education hub located at the Blue and White Laundromat on 140st Street in…

  • Conversing Bricks

    Conversing Bricks

    The Conversing Bricks (2012) public art project emerged from a campaign waged by anti-immigrant groups back in 2006 that sent thousands of bricks to members of Congress who opposed the construction of…

  • Boogie Down Rides

    Boogie Down Rides

    This project is part of meta local collaborative. Boogie Down Rides is a celebration of bicycling in the Bronx. It includes educational events, community visioning sessions, and group rides. Boogie Down…

  • A Post(al) Colonial Correspondence

    A Post(al) Colonial Correspondence

    This Project was commissioned by the The third edition of the Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan América Latina y el Caribe, 2012 entitled the Panal/ The Hive. Photo documentation by…

  • While the Bronx was Burning, Casa Amadeo was holding it down

    While the Bronx was Burning, Casa Amadeo was holding it down

    This project is part of meta local collaborative. Photo Documentation by Jo Q Nelson, Chad Stayrook and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín While the Bronx was Burning, Casa Amadeo was holding it down was a…

  • Together Work

    Together Work

    This project is part of meta local collaborative. Collaborating artists Jules Rochielle (text), Elizabeth Hamby (image) Hatuey Ramos Fermín (text treatment). This project was part of Pacific Standard Time Art in L.A. 1945-1980. Pacific Standard Time…

  • Street CARTographies

    Street CARTographies

    This project is part of meta local collaborative. “Maps are about relationships among which meanings circulate.” Denis Wood, Rethinking the Power of Maps More than half of the world’s population are classified…

  • EAsT Harlem

    EAsT Harlem

    Photo documentation by: Barbara Sullivan Text by Curator Christine Licata “EAsT Harlem,” a collaborative multimedia, curatorial-art-project that investigates alternative solutions to the on-going problem of fresh food access in East Harlem,…

  • Hubs and Spokes Conversations

    Hubs and Spokes Conversations

    Using the hubs and spokes model this podcast series created bridges, nodes, networks and exchanges within, outside, and/or disparate geographies, disciplines, ideas, topics and interests. Hubs and spokes aims to…

  • Transmit – Transit

    Transmit – Transit

    Text by  artist-curator Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga “Ramos Fermín has engaged in deconstructing an element of local space to investigate just one detail of modernity and globalization.  He has not done so…

  • Refashioning Moda

    Refashioning Moda

    Fashion Moda’s founder Stefan Eins maintains that art “can happen anywhere and that it can be appreciated and made by people who are known and unknown, trained and untrained, rich…

  • Center for Urban Pedagogy (C.U.P.)

    Center for Urban Pedagogy (C.U.P.)

    Collaborations with the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s (CUP) Urban Investigations: The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses design and art to improve public participation in shaping the…

  • No Deliveries Today

    No Deliveries Today

    Collaboration with artist Miryana Todorova ‘No Deliveries Today Part II’ by Miryana Todorova from Miryana Todorova on Vimeo. ‘No Deliveries Today Part III’ by Miryana Todorova from Miryana Todorova on Vimeo.…

  • Bronx Museum Teen Council

    Bronx Museum Teen Council

    Created in 2005, the Bronx Museum Teen Council makes contemporary art and culture accessible to urban youth through a series of different platforms. Structured around the production of MuseCasts, video…

  • Framing Conversations / Traveling Poem

    Framing Conversations / Traveling Poem

    These projects are part of the installation Anywhere but here… In Framing Conversations I played the role of a photography instructor doing a workshop with predominantly Latin American immigrants in Amsterdam,…

  • Anywhere but here…

    Anywhere but here…

    For the site-specific installation, I used banana boxes and different videos in order to relate the history of the building itself into the presentation. (The Las Palmas building used to…

  • Goodwill

    Goodwill

    In the series entitled Goodwill (2003-2007) I made straightforward photographic documentation of neglected or abandoned buildings, houses, among other decayed structures. I made visual connections with different urban places (San…

  • The walls of my skin are the limits of my home (Benito Banana)

    The walls of my skin are the limits of my home (Benito Banana)

    This project is part of the installation Anywhere but here… This project consists of a creation of a fictional character, Benito Banana, that appears and communicates as a web blog…

  • Coexistence

    Coexistence

    Coexistence is a project is part of the installation Anywhere but here… From the year 2000 until 2008, two different cultures shared the same place, each weekend they transform it in…

  • Mansiones de Todo Bien

    Mansiones de Todo Bien

    The documentary photographs that form part of this portfolio are from the series Mansion de Todo Bien, (Mansion of all Good) from 2003-2005 taken in different towns of Puerto Rico.…

  • Communications Project

    Communications Project

    Communications Project: TUTV-Puerto Rico’s Platform for Arts, Media and Community Development. Communications Project promoted new pathways for community-based learning development. The Project conducts workshops in drama, photography, graphic design, radio,…