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March 2019
Velocity Fund Information Session
Join us on March 25th at Taller Puertorriqueño to learn more about The Velocity Fund! We will be reviewing eligibility, application requirements and answering any questions you may have. The Velocity Fund directly supports artists to organize new collaborative projects throughout the city of Philadelphia by awarding grants up to $5,000. It is open to a wide range of experimental practices, particularly those that emphasize collaboration between artistic genres le ading to expanded audiences, fresh outcomes and an enriched multi-disciplinary…
Find out more »April 2019
Rafael Villamil: Paradise Has No Memory
ARTIST RECEPTION Please join us on April 12 for the reception of the Philadelphia based artist, Rafael Villamil, whose works of art are epic in scale and content. His exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño, Paradise Has No Memory, centers on his artwork from the 1960s to the 2000s. Villamil is an architect by training and an artist by temperament in the broadest sense of the word. In his paintings, drawings, and assemblies, he ruminates on his experiences, aspirations, lost loves, mortality,…
Find out more »May 2019
Rafael Villamil, An Impassioned Vision
With his first major exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño, Paradise Has No Memory, the architect and artist Rafael Villamil stakes his claim in Philadelphia. Villamil is an important painter from Puerto Rico who has exhibited with Rafael Ferrer and in museums such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. As an architect he has worked with Louis I Kahn and designed and built his unique, multitiered house in Chestnut Hill. Please join Rafael Damast, the curator of the exhibition…
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