Zaida Goveo Balmaseda, Description: contemporary artist discusses how she uses craft in making paper and textiles on the island through her own research and family history.
Craft Futures Fund
2020
Partnering with Hidrante, a space oriented towards exhibitions, workshops, and community use we aim to educate and respond to the island's need for educational projects at a critical time. Students and the public are unable to attend courses and education has been shuttered even before the pandemic crisis. Our proposal aims to address the remnants of cultural production like weaving, ceramics and printmaking that have been part of our island's history, slowly diminished or almost disappeared by documenting, giving art historical background while exploring techniques and materials.
Selected works
VILLALOBOS CHAIR, Description: The Villalobos family has been making furniture since the 19th century in Ciales Puerto Rico, the heartland of the island. This is an example from the 1950s. In the A View of Craft Processes of Puerto Rico, we discuss the cutting of gigantic trees on the family farm, going into the mangroves in search of yerba anea, and preparing the wood and plants for weaving to be a part of one of the pieces that will work in the workshop as well as the family oral history that is passed down trough these processes
Villalobos Family, Description: technical weaving of furniture
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