Monday, July 19, 2021

Educating Nikole Hannah-Jones

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New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the leader of that paper's controversial 1619 Project recently showed a spectacular lack...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

They will not be forgotten!

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  Xaviel Álvarez García, 18 years old, from Ciego de Avila was arrested on the first day of the historic Cuban uprising against their Commun...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

Where are they?

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I know that some of them have already spoken out (like Pitbull)... but we need our Cuban-American celebs to step out and support the Cuban u...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

United Nations

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

The People's Choice! VOTE!!!!

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As many of you know, I have a work in The Phillips Museum DC exhibition 'Inside Outside Upside Down;'  It is a super important art e...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

She will not be forgotten!

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Neife Rigau has been arrested during the historic Cuban uprising against their Marxist dictators and her family has not been able to see her...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Me bitchin' to the WaPo in 1998

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 Ferdinand Protzman's "A Cool Idea: New Shows for Summer" {Style, July 16} said D.C. art galleries ignore the month of August....

1980 Cuba piece at auction!

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This 1980 work from my Cuba series just popped up at an auction house in Miami! Proceeds go to the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora . B...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Daily Campello Welcomes New DC Arts Commission Chairperson

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Reggie Van Lee was officially sworn as chairperson of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities on Thursday, July 1, 2021. Chairperson Va...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Cubans are on the street!

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The internet is ablaze with the news that for the first time (at least in my memory) there are widespread protests in Cuba - the shouts are ...
Monday, July 05, 2021

The Morrigan

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New for 2021 - a return to one of my obsessions! This is "The Morrigan" - she's the Celtic goddess of War, Lust and Sex. About...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

Punk Lincoln

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"Punk Lincoln", circa 1981, Charcoal and conte on paper, 12x16 inches - an art assignment from the University of Washington School...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Burundanga explained

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Here's the whole logic to this song: Songo hit Borondongo because Borondongo had hit Bernabe... And Borondongo did that because Bernabe ...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Paint It! Ellicott City Award Winners Announced

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Landscape painters from around the Mid-Atlantic region gathered in Historic Ellicott City June 10-13, dodging raindrops and cicadas while co...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Torpedo Factory artists new presence on Facebook

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Check out their new footprint on Facebook! Click here.
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Isla Judia

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This is "Isla Judia", circa 1981, watercolor on 180 weight paper, done while I was a student at the University of Washington Schoo...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Call for Artists - Essex Gateway Sculpture Artwork

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Any and all Maryland artists are invited to submit work for the new Essex Gateway Sculpture, a public outdoor display featured at the entran...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

My picks for Paint It! Ellicott City 2021

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 As June arrives, I’m beginning to think that perhaps the Covidian monster has been tamed, art fairs are desperately seeking galleries to ap...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Grandsonator!

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Saturday, June 05, 2021

This is what being a Cuban is like (Cuban Transformation Machine)

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This is a piece that I did in art school in 1981: I cut out the shape of Cuba from a blue acrylic wash paper, then affixed it to a mirror an...
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Friday, June 04, 2021

Remembering a powerful woman

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Five years ago my courageous mother died... this is my eulogy from that day: When my father died last year, I began  his eulogy by noting...