{"id":143516,"date":"2026-05-26T07:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/collection-of-afro-puerto-rican-art-displayed-at-casa-silvana\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:15:13","slug":"collection-of-afro-puerto-rican-art-displayed-at-casa-silvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/collection-of-afro-puerto-rican-art-displayed-at-casa-silvana\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art displayed at Casa Silvana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humacao, Puerto Rico – Curator Edwin Vel\u00e1zquez Collazo is the administrator in the creation of the first collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art that will be showcased at Casa Silvana, an alternative rural space for the dissemination of Afro-Puerto Rican art which he founded and directs in the municipality of Humacao.<\/h2>\n
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Violeta Vani, \u201cAtlas\u201d, 2023, 14\u201d x 11\u201d, acrylic on paper. Casa Silvana Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Edrimael Delgado Reyes, \u201cVolc\u00e1n\u201d, 2023, 8\u201d x 6\u201d, collage. @Casa Silvana Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

This art collection, centered around small-format pieces by black and Afro-descendant contemporary artists from Puerto Rico and its Diaspora, is composed of works in varied medias such as drawings, engravings, lithography, watercolor, photography, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum, monotypes and silkscreens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a collection that places Puerto Rico as one of the few Latin American and Caribbean countries with collections of contemporary Afro art”, said the curator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Gabriela M. V\u00e1zquez, Untitled, Undated, mixed media on paper, 9\u201d x 6\u201d Casa Silvana Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

In this initial phase, it has over 40 works acquired or donated by the artists: Alejandra Rosa, Brenda Cruz D\u00edaz, Clara Garc\u00eda Mel\u00e9ndez, Deyaneira Lucero Maldonado, Edrimael Delgado Reyes, Edwin Vel\u00e1zquez Collazo, El\u00edas Carmona Rivera, Gabriela M. V\u00e1zquez, Germ\u00e1n Ayala V\u00e1zquez, Javier Cintr\u00f3n, Jean \u201cBaco\u201d Ortiz , Jehiel Franco Torres, Jorly Flores, Jos\u00e9 Otero Morales, Joyce De Jes\u00fas Mart\u00ednez, Juan Alberto Negroni, Kariel Argenis D\u00edaz Maisonet, Ketsia Camacho Ramos, Kivan Qui\u00f1ones Beltr\u00e1n, Lydianna D\u00e1vila Colombo , Liz Amable Fantauzzi, Malcom Ferrer, Nitzayra Leonor Canales Dalmau, Sebasti\u00e1n Rom\u00e1n Soto, Sandra Mart\u00ednez, Tenjin Ikeda, Victoria Nicole Mart\u00ednez, Violeta Vani, Wichie Torres y Xavier Valc\u00e1rcel de Jes\u00fas.<\/p>\n

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Germ\u00e1n Ayala V\u00e1zquez, \u201cSaysha\u201d, 2023, photography, 12\u201d x 8\u201d, Casa Silvana Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Considered the only art collection on the island specialized in Afro-Puerto Rican art, it aims to house more than one hundred works in the coming years as well as create awareness and interest towards the creation of new and future collections centered around Afro art in the country.\u00a0This project has been possible thanks to the support of the Maniobra del Centro de Econom\u00eda Creativa (CEC) program and the Mellon Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Tenjin Falase Ikeda, \u201cThis world, That world\u201d, 9\/25, 12\u201d x 9\u201d, linoleum print, Casa Silvana Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican Art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>

For more information: casasilvanapr@gmail.com<\/a>, https:\/\/casasilvanapr.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Humacao, Puerto Rico – Curator Edwin Vel\u00e1zquez Collazo is the administrator in the creation of the first collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art that will be showcased at Casa Silvana, an alternative rural space for the dissemination of Afro-Puerto Rican art which he founded and directs in the municipality of Humacao. Violeta Vani, \u201cAtlas\u201d, 2023, 14\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2653],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[2583],"class_list":{"0":"post-143516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-article"},"authors":[{"term_id":2583,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mermar","display_name":"mermar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b97554d899a7ce8df2bc286c2f73beda56ebbc97d5d9ced74f7a04498e0fb0d3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143846,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143516\/revisions\/143846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afromagazine.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=143516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}