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Visual Artists:
 Raymon ELOZUA (B. 1947, West Germany): First
known for his realistic sculptures of American industrial architecture,
Elozua has taught at several academic institutions, most recently
at Louisiana State University, where he was artist in residence
in the graduate department’s sculpture program. For 20 years,
until 1979, he was consultant and curator for the Allan Chasanoff
Ceramic Collection, now at the Mint Museum of Crafts in Charlotte,
N.C. Elozua has received three National Endowment for the Arts
grants in painting and sculpture. In May of 2003, the Mint
Museum of Art and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design presented
a career retrospective survey of his sculptures, paintings,
photography and digital works. Elozua studied at the University
of Chicago (Cintas for art, 1981-82)
Eugenio ESPINOSA: A professor of art at SUNY
Rockland Community College, Espinosa received a Weir Farm Resident
Artist grant and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for
the Creative Arts. His work was recently featured at the Art
Gallery of the College of New Jersey in an exhibition titled The
Political is the Personal – Perspectives from the Latin Diaspora, and
at The Visual Imaginary of Latinas/os in New Jersey at
the Kenkeleba Gallery in Manhattan. (Cintas for arts,
1986-87)
Tony ÉVORA (b. 1937, Havana): A painter and
printmaker, musicologist, writer and educator, Évora lived and
worked in Exeter, England, where he became director of the Visual
Arts, Music and Publications Department at Oxford Brookes University
before moving to Spain in the early 1990s. Since then, his work
– artistic and literary – has revolved around Cuban music and
its relationship to santería. He has published three
books, Orígenes de la música cubana (1997), El Libro del bolero
(2001) and Música cubana: Los últimos 50años. (Cintas
for art, 1978-79, 1980-81)
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