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Visual Artists:
Juan NICKFORD (b.
1925, Havana): A member of the Sculptors Guild, Nickford holds
the title of Professor Emeritus of Art at City College of New
York. He also taught at the University of Hartford and Smith
College. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum and
the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County
Museum, Fordham University and Lever House, among other venues.
His work is in the collection of the Smith College Museum of
Art and the Spaeth Foundation in New York. Among his many commissions
are pieces for the Socony Oil Building and the Trade Show Building
in New York, and the SS Santa Rosa. He received a Bronze Medal
at the New York State Exposition. Nickford studied at the University
of Havana School of Architecture. (Cintas for art, 1970-71)
Glexis NOVOA (b.
Holguin, 1964): Best known for his finely drawn landscapes
on marble, one of Novoa’s early outings as an artist was as
the set designer of the acclaimed 1987 film Alicia en el pueblo
de Maravillas. He has also curated several exhibitions, including
Waiting List: Time and Process in Contemporary Cuban Art for
the City Art Museum Ljublana, in Slovenia and Exit Art, New
York. Novoa has had solo exhibitions at the Lowe Museum of
the University of Miami, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and
Locust Projects in Miami and the Snite Museum at the University
of Notre Dame, among others. His work has also participated
in several group shows in the United States, Latin America
and Europe. His work is represented in the collections of numerous
institutions, including Centre de Cultura Contemporania in
Barcelona, the Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana, the Lowe Museum
and the Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst Aachen in Germany.
Novoa studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
in Maine, and the National School of Art and the National School
of Design in Havana. (Cintas Foundation Emilio Sánchez Award
in Visual Arts, 2006-07)
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