CASCARILLA EN EL TALLER

Havana: A collective exhibit entitled Cascarilla en el Taller (Husks in the Workshop) includes artworks by Daymi Aguilar, Gabriela Garcia, Ernesto Garcia, Salome Garcia, Nelson D. Ladicani, Paola Martinez, Jose M. Mesias, Osmeivy Ortega, Milton Raggi, Gabriel Reyna, Greta Reyna, Raidel L. Rodriguez, Nicolas Sanchez, Rolando Vazquez and Rafael Villares.

Opened since April 8 at the “Rene Portocarrero” Serigraphy Workshop, on 513 Cuba Street between Muralla and Teniente Rey, Historic Center of Old Havana, the exposition is part of the Cascarilla teaching and artistic program created in 2008 in a bid to encourage the development of artistic and pedagogical activities.

With this view in mind, Prof. Rolando Vazquez and junior students from the School of Sculpture at the San Alejandro Fine Arts Academy turned a classroom-workshop into a makeshift gallery that opens from inside the school out. The project clusters students engaged in the creative process and in compliance with the academy’s teaching program.

Several lectures have been organized at Cascarilla. The first one was taught by professor and artist Eduardo Hernandez on contemporary North American photography; the second dealt with urbanism and the importance of interdisciplinary teams and was conducted by professor and architect Augusto Rivero Mas, and more recently the place featured Swiss illustrator and cartoonist Tom Tirabosco, as well as U.S. book designer Steve Daiber. A similar memorable encounter was the one held by professor and artist Janler Mendez.

Junior students of Sculpture –a genuine seedbed for this project- and other alumni from different classrooms, are additionally carrying out a number of activities under a creative and therapeutic workshop for autistic children at the Dora Alonso Special Education School.

In a three-year spam, Cascarilla has presented 25 exhibitive projects, including three editions of the Cascarilla Hall.