Cintas Foundation

Arnaldo RAVELO DE AVELLANEDA (b. 1929, Cuba –d. 1979, Miami) A painter, sculptor and educator, Ravelo taught drawing and art history in Güines, Cuba, New York and Miami, where he was a member of the Grupo Artístico Literario Abril (GALA) Ravelo studied at the Academy of San Alejandro in Havana, at Manhattan Community College and at La Moncloa in Madrid. (Cintas for art, 1977-78)

Manuel REVUELTA (b. 1953, Havana): After studying at the Escuela Nacional de Diseño in Havana, Revuelta worked as a designer and draftsman until he left Cuba during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. His sculptural pieces have been displayed in galleries in Miami and Madrid. Revuelta is also a furniture designer. His work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. (Cintas for art, 1987-88)

José Manuel RODEIRO: The coordinator of the art history program and associate professor of art history at New Jersey City University, Rodeiro is the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct art historical research and paint in Nicaragua, and of a visual arts fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Rodeiro also received and Inter-American Development Bank grant to curate, write a catalogue and tour contemporary Nicaraguan art through the Mid-Atlantic region. Rodeiro holds a Ph.D. from the College of Fine Arts in Ohio, a master of fine arts degree from the Pratt Institute and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tampa. (Cintas for painting, 1982-83)

Arturo RODRÍGUEZ (b. 1956, Ranchuelo) A widely exhibited artist, Rodríguez has received three Florida Individual Artist Fellowship awards and a fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium. His works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Jerusalem Museum in Tel Aviv, the Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including one-man shows at Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Va.; the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. His work was included in the Cuba-USA: The First Generation traveling exhibition.In 1987, he was commissioned by Florida International University to do a painting, which he titled “Exiles,” to be given to Pope John Paul II during his visit to Florida. Rodríguez is one of the artists profiled in Maria Lino’s 1988 documentary film Three Artist Profiles. His work has been auctioned at both Christie's New York and Sotheby's New York. The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art has been collecting his primary records since 1998. (Cintas for art, 1982-83, 1988-89)

José R. RODRÍGUEZ (b. 1926, Matanzas): (Cintas for art, 1967-68, 1968-69 )

Mari RODRÍGUEZ-ICHASO (b. 1943-Havana): After working in journalism, TV production and film for more than 30 years, Rodríguez-Ichaso wrote and directed the documentary, Branded by Paradise, about women in Cuba, and Made in Cuba: Children of Paradise. Her films have met with success at international film festivals such as Prague's One World Human Rights Festival, the International Festivals in Karlovy Vary, and festivals in London, Miami, Chicago and New Orleans. She was the associate producer of the feature film Bitter Sugar. (Cintas in art/film, 2002-03)

Rocío RODRÍGUEZ (b. 1952, Caibarién): Rodríguez has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including the 2003 Armory Show in New York City, the 2002 Georgia Triennial, and in shows at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the National Museum of Women in the Arts In Washington, D.C. Rodríguez was awarded an artist residency at the Fundación de Valparaíso in Mójacar, Spain; a Southern Regional Artist award at the American Academy of Art in Rome; two Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts regional fellowships, and a Ford Foundation fellowship. Her work is in a several collections, including the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Georgia, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. She has taught at Miami University in Ohio, Georgia State University and Atlanta College of Art. Rodríguez has bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees from the University of Georgia (Cintas for art, 1980-81)

Lydia RUBIO (b. 1946, Havana) Distinguished by the use of words and images in painted multi-paneled pieces or installations, Lydia Rubio’s work suggest narrative puzzles and are often accompanied by books outlining the concepts and derivations of the works. Throughout her career, Rubio has had more than a dozen solo shows and more than 50 group shows in national and regional public and private institutions. In 2002, Rubio completed a major public art commission for the Port of Miami. More recently, she was commissioned to do large-scale public art sculptures for the Raleigh Durham Airport and for The Women’s Park in Miami Dade County. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Southern California, the Wolfsonian FIU, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami and the art galleries of Miami Dade College, Bryn Mawr College and Lehigh University. Rubio is the recipient of a Creative Capital Professional Development Seminar, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship and a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. For two years, Rubio was a visiting critic in the design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design; she was also an instructor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture and at Parsons School of Design in New York, where she developed the Visual Thinking Studio within the Department of Environmental Design. Rubio received a master’s in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Florida. She also studied urban design at Università degli Studi in Florence. Rubio moved to the United States from Cuba in 1960 and lived in Puerto Rico, Italy, Boston and New York before settling in Miami in 1989. Artist’s website: www.lydiarubio.com. (Cintas for art, 1981-82)

Gilberto RUIZ (b. 1950, Havana): A painter and installation artist, Ruiz studied at San Alejandro and the National Design School in Havana before coming to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Since then, his work has been exhibited frequently, in both solo and group shows, including !Mira! The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour, Expatriates: Paintings by 15 Young Latin American Artists, Outside Cuba and Cuba‑USA: The First Generation, which toured throughout the United States, and Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. His work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library. He is the winner of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. (Cintas for art, 1982-83)