At the 2016-2017 annual Fellowships Ceremony, the CINTAS Foundation
announced the retirement of its president, Hortensia E. Sampedro, after more than three decades of
service.
CINTAS Foundation and MDC Museum of Art + Design Announce 2015-16 Fellowship ...Cintas Foundation
Miami, April 1, 2015 – The Miami Dade College (MDC) Museum of Art + Design and the CINTAS Foundation have announced the ongoing 2015-2016 CINTAS Knight Foundation Award in Visual Arts.
All submission materials must be received by Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
Marking its 51st year, the one-of-a-kind competition serves as a platform to promote and support visual artists, writers, architects and composers of Cuban descent from across the globe. The Collection has grown to be one of the largest bodies of Cuban art outside of Cuba and continues to grow each year with each new fellow.
“CINTAS Fellows are found represented in all major museums, as well as in important private and corporate collections throughout the world,” said CINTAS Foundation Board President Hortensia E. Sampedro.
In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists.
Past Visual Arts Fellows include:
Guillermo Calzadilla, in collaboration with the artist Jennifer Allora, produce community collaborations, instllatins, photograpy and sculptural work. Allora and Calzadilla represented the United States in the 2011 venice Biennale.
Carmen Herrera was one of Cuba’s first abstract painters. Herrera has exhibited widely in various solo and group shows, including the Outside Cuba exhibition. Herrera's pieces are in many museums and collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Tate Modern in London; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; El Museo del Barrio in New York; and Havana's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. She is the winner of a Creative Artists Public Service Award (CAPS) in New York.
The late Félix Gonzáles Torres represented the USA in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He also had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Museum in Progress in Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
The late Carlos Alfonso was represented in the Outside Cuba exhibition and the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling exhibition. He has also been the subject of several solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and the Hal Bromm Gallery in New York.
Teresita Fernández has had solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli in Italy, the Masataka Hayakawa Gallery in Japan, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Deitch Projects in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. She was also appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
Andrés Serrano has won awards from t
CINTAS Foundation and MDC Museum of Art + Design Announce 2015-16 Fellowship ...Cintas Foundation
Miami, April 1, 2015 – The Miami Dade College (MDC) Museum of Art + Design and the CINTAS Foundation have announced the ongoing 2015-2016 CINTAS Knight Foundation Award in Visual Arts.
All submission materials must be received by Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
Marking its 51st year, the one-of-a-kind competition serves as a platform to promote and support visual artists, writers, architects and composers of Cuban descent from across the globe. The Collection has grown to be one of the largest bodies of Cuban art outside of Cuba and continues to grow each year with each new fellow.
“CINTAS Fellows are found represented in all major museums, as well as in important private and corporate collections throughout the world,” said CINTAS Foundation Board President Hortensia E. Sampedro.
In addition to supporting Cuban artists, many early in their careers, the CINTAS Foundation also maintains a growing collection of works by past awardees and other esteemed Cuban artists.
Past Visual Arts Fellows include:
Guillermo Calzadilla, in collaboration with the artist Jennifer Allora, produce community collaborations, instllatins, photograpy and sculptural work. Allora and Calzadilla represented the United States in the 2011 venice Biennale.
Carmen Herrera was one of Cuba’s first abstract painters. Herrera has exhibited widely in various solo and group shows, including the Outside Cuba exhibition. Herrera's pieces are in many museums and collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Tate Modern in London; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; El Museo del Barrio in New York; and Havana's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. She is the winner of a Creative Artists Public Service Award (CAPS) in New York.
The late Félix Gonzáles Torres represented the USA in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He also had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Museum in Progress in Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
The late Carlos Alfonso was represented in the Outside Cuba exhibition and the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling exhibition. He has also been the subject of several solo exhibitions in institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and the Hal Bromm Gallery in New York.
Teresita Fernández has had solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli in Italy, the Masataka Hayakawa Gallery in Japan, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Deitch Projects in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. She was also appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.
Andrés Serrano has won awards from t
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chip106@aol.com
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Lesley University
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The slight, shy woman sitting in front of me has turned 20th-century art history on its head. Such accolades should not be given lightly, but the Venezuela-born collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros is a patron on a mission: to bring modern and contemporary art from Latin America to new audiences, giving it a place in the 20th-century art canon that has, until now, been dominated by major European and US movements and artists.
Noviembre, 2014
A Scavenger Hunt for a Healthy Arts Community.
By
CHARLES CHIP MC NEAL
chip106@aol.com
October 2011
Lesley University
Creative Arts in Learning
EARTS 6101 Art and Culture in Community
This presentation gives a surface introduction to social practice art It also covers the major awards given in fine art so foundations students can come to understand the current fine art landscape.
The Global Fine Art Awards program honors innovation in design,historical context, educational value, and public appeal.
We launched the Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA) program in 2014 with the conviction that there is not enough visibility or understanding of the world of art and design in the world today.
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CINTAS Foundation President to Retire after More Than 35 Years
1. CINTAS Foundation President to Retire after More Than 35 Years
Miami, December 6, 2016 - At the 2016-2017 annual Fellowships Ceremony, the CINTAS Foundation
announced the retirement of its president, Hortensia E. Sampedro, after more than three decades of
service.
Tapped by then Chairman of the Board of the Chase Manhattan Bank David Rockefeller, Hortensia
began her service as assistant treasurer, was elected as a director, then member, and served on the
Visual Arts Committee and as treasurer of CINTAS. Hortensia was eventually elected as the CINTAS
Foundation's fourth president since its founding in 1963.
Over her span of service, the Foundation has been the sole organization granting fellowships for Cuban
arts and the humanities outside Cuba. In the early 1980s, the strategic decision was made to evolve the
Foundation as a collecting entity as well as the premiere fellowship granting entity. This was followed by
the decision to bring the fledgling collection out of storage and partner with a major institution of higher
learning to regularly exhibit the works of the Fellows. Subsequently, a strong program of bi-annual
exhibitions was developed around the CINTAS Fellows. In 1988 a program to recognize Lifetime
Achievements of living Cubans was inaugurated, honoring internationally recognized Cubans in the arts
and the humanities who are credited with changing their world and inspiring others to do the same.
Soon another program of annual exhibitions was organized around the CINTAS Finalists, initially in
partnership with the FIU Frost Museum of Art and more recently with the Miami Dade College Museum of
Art + Design. The CINTAS Fellows Collection is on long-term loan to the Museum and housed on a
rotating exhibit basis at the Freedom Tower. Today, the Fellows Collection comprises over 280 works and
37 objects from over 300 Fellows. The works are posted on the CINTAS Foundation's website with each
artist's history and background.
Hortensia credits committee chairs Margarita Cano, Manuel Gonzalez, Ileana Oroza, Roberto de Alba,
Rafael Miyar, and Nancy Reisman with leading the formative decisions of the CINTAS over the last 35+
years. “Through their dedication to supporting the work of the Fellows, our directors faithfully carried out
the wishes of Oscar B. Cintas, creating the unique legacy of the last 54 years”. She also credits Dahlia
Morgan of the then The Art Museum at FIU with the initial vision of exhibiting the Fellows’ works and
Jeremy Mikolajczak of MDC Museum of Art + Design of capturing their accomplishments in: Impact and
Legacy: 50 Years of the CINTAS Foundation. “Most recently, Dr. Eduardo Padron, president of Miami
Dade College, had the vision to house the collection at the Freedom Tower, and Alberto Ibarguen,
president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has supported broadened support for
2. the annual work of the Fellows. Through their leadership, these extraordinary leaders have given voice to
the Cuban fellows”. The CINTAS Fellowship Collection has grown into a unique narrative of the Cuban
diaspora through its arts and humanities for over 50 years.
Known as the "quiet Pulitzer prize of Cuban arts and the humanities", the CINTAS Fellowships have
recognized a who's who of accomplished Cuban artists, architects, writers and composers for over half a
century. The CINTAS Competition has been lauded for its integrity and the vision of its juries.
The Board of Directors presented Hortensia with a commemorative Tiffany crystal vase at the ceremony.
Elected to succeed her is Victor Deupi, vice president of the CINTAS Foundation.
About the CINTAS Fellowship Program
The CINTAS Fellowship Program encourages creative development in architecture, literature, music
composition and the visual arts. The Foundation was established with funds from the estate of Oscar B.
Cintas (1887-1957), former Cuban ambassador to the United States, a prominent industrialist and patron
of the arts. In June 2011, the CINTAS Foundation entered into an extended loan to MDC’s Museum of Art
+ Design of the CINTAS Fellows Collection. It is comprised of nearly 300 pieces by artists of Cuban
descent living outside Cuba who have received prestigious CINTAS Fellowships, awarded since 1963.
www.cintasfoundation.org
About MDC Museum of Art and Design
MDC Museum of Art and Design is dedicated to the presentation of visual art and design exhibitions.
Housed at the National Historic Landmark Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College in downtown Miami, its
mission is to promote the appreciation and understanding of art through direct engagement with original
works.
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For more information about the CINTAS program at MDC Museum of Art + Design, please contact
Laurie Escobar, CINTAS Administrator, 305-237-7901, lescobar@mdc.edu.
