Experience

Taller Puertorriqueño

• United States
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Artist

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Memorializing Fairhill is a project that explores methods of listening, celebrating and honoring the stories and legacy from the Fairhill neighborhood located in North Philadelphia. This place-keeping initiative aims at utilizing public art as a vehicle to deepen community relationships while displaying the neighborhood’s own narrative and imagination in a creative process that involves local community members.Based on the oral stories captured throughout the process, the project will then translate these narratives into a map and 3-4 site-specific permanent markers, transforming them into high-quality aesthetic products that will engage new audiences in community-based settings and deepen community engagement with the neighborhood’s history and urban geography. Taller will collaborate with a number of partners to create this series of historical markers in public spaces in the Fairhill neighborhood of North Philadelphia tol serve as community identifiers, works of public art, and sites of collective memory. This project is an important building block in efforts to overturn negative perceptions of Fairhill, deepening the community’s connection to this place and its history. Inspired by the people, places, and events that give the community its identity, the markers will be connected to a large-scale map in the atrium of Taller’s El Corazón Cultural Center. Show less

• Visiting Curator

  • Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  ● Managed curatorial selection, content and planning around the ​Portales​, ​an exhibition that celebrates theartistic career and activism of the Puerto Rican artist Samuel Lind.● Managed the shipment of artwork overseas from Puerto Rico to the continental United States.



Alliance for the Watershed Education

• Pennsylvania, United States

• Lead Community Liaison

  • May 2019 - Present

  As the Lead Community Liaison of the Lenapehoking || Watershed initiative, Im responsible for providing artists and centers strategies that will expand and deepen relationships with constituents surrounding the network of Environmental Centers that are members if the Alliance for the Watershed Education. As the Lead Community Liaison of the Lenapehoking || Watershed initiative, Im responsible for providing artists and centers strategies that will expand and deepen relationships with constituents surrounding the network of Environmental Centers that are members if the Alliance for the Watershed Education.



Philadelphia Folklore Project

• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager / Co-Artist

  • May 2019 - Nov 2019

  ● Managed and design the implementation phase behind the initiative La Ofrenda including budget, programs location, program logistics, artistic installation, artist coaching, graphic design and media coordination. ● Coordinated visits to the project by the Esparza family (Altarista), as part of the initiative’s programming. ● Managed and design the implementation phase behind the initiative La Ofrenda including budget, programs location, program logistics, artistic installation, artist coaching, graphic design and media coordination. ● Coordinated visits to the project by the Esparza family (Altarista), as part of the initiative’s programming.



Fleisher Art Memorial

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Exhibitions Manager

  • Aug 2012 - May 2019

  ● Conceptualized, planned, budgeted & implemented the creative place-keeping initiative ​Bring Your Own Project​. The BYOP collaborated with two groups within the Latinx and Southeast Asian communities as a strategy to understand the role of institutions within the immigrant communities of Southeast Philadelphia. ● Managed a budget of $365,000 around several initiatives, including community driven projects and regular calendar exhibitions over a span of two years. ● Together with a committee of community leaders (La Calaca Flaca), I conceptualized, developed and implemented the two month long ​Día de los Muertos Celebration​. The implementation of this festival involved the creation of culturally appropriate workshops, artist residencies, receptions, procurement of food and donations, craft fairs, live performances, and art installations. The festival has become one of the institution’s most important annual events and attracts around 1,500 people each year for the last seven years. ● Responsible for all aspects of year-round Exhibitions Program operations which includes: program development, event planning, graphic design, marketing material creation, jurying processes selection, educational programming creation, program budgeting, data entry, installation logistics, event calendar, and artist residencies. ● ​Reevaluated, developed and redesigned the Exhibitions Program’s mission to be more relevant to the surrounding diverse community. This process led me to curate and program exhibitions like ​Las Desaparecidas en Juárez ​by the artist Diane Kahlo. This involved the creation of programming that Show less



Moore College of Art and Design

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Audience Engagement Consultant

  • Sep 2013 - Jan 2014

  Audience engagement consultant for Latino communities within Philadelphia. Audience engagement consultant for Latino communities within Philadelphia.



Barnes Foundation

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lecturer

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2013

  The art of story telling within my artwork. The art of story telling within my artwork.



ASPIRA, Inc. of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Education Management
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Workshop Instructor

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2012

• Mural Arts Instructor

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012



Brandywine Workshop

• Greater Philadelphia Area

• Fine Art Printer

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012



Taller Puertorriqueño

• Greater Philadelphia Area

• Visual Arts Instructor

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2012



Philadelphia Museum of Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Artists in Residency

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2012



Second State Press

• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Printmaking Instructor

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2011