Residency
Point of Contact mural project and exhibition
Cuba 2010-2011
In January 2011, La Raza Artists were invited on a cultural program to Cuba to spend several weeks in the town of Santiago de Cuba coordinating and designing a public mural and mounting an exhibition. Four artists from La Raza went to Cuba, installing a large exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Centro Culturale de Artes Plasticas. Francis Caprani also was a contributor to this show.
The group also designed and painted a 1200 square foot mural in this time.
Gerald Pedros, Brian Saby, Esther Rausenberg and Richard completed the public mural, working alongside artists from Taller Cultural “Luis Diaz Oduardo.” over a 6-day period. Called ‘Punto de Contacto’ (‘Point of Contact’) it is a visualization of Canada in a tapestry-like format, presenting encounters between landscape, people and animals as a narrative of collective experience of place. The floating canoe is the repository for these mythic symbols and images.
The mural is located on a prominent wall at Ferreiro Plaza, a busy intersection on Calle Garzon in Santiago de Cuba. The host for this project was Tamayo Zamora. Participating Cuban artists include Mauricio Reyes, Juan Salazar, Joaquin Bolivar, Lisbet Ballart, Oniel Leroux, Danisbel Abad, Oandri Tejeiro, Eider Garbey and Lianne Hernandez.
