BX200 News/Blog

Cuban-born Bronxite Alexis Mendoza has been busy! A true renaissance man, Mendoza is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, author and co-founder of two Bronx-based art collectives. He is currently on exhibit at Derfner Judaica Museum in Riverdale, and is co-curating a major exhibition of Puerto Rican and Cuban artists on the Lower East Side.

BORI-CUBA 2X2 Presented by BxArts Factory

at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk St, New York, NY

Please join BX200 for our next Virtual Artist Studios at the Bronx Museum of Arts 1040 Lounge! Thursday, October 15th – 6:30 -9pm The Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th St, Bronx, NY click here for directions 718.681.6000 Free admission and bar (donations suggested) Location: North Wing 2nd floor Artists speaking

The Jerome Ave Workers Project, an ambitious multimedia exhibition, opens this Saturday in an area of the Bronx that will likely be unrecognizable in five years. Photographer Rhynna Santos explains what it’s all about and why we should pay attention.

Here are 10 Questions for Rhynna Santos:

On view | October 10, 2015 to November 14, 2015

at More Points BX, 527 Faile Street (Hunts Point), Bronx, NY 10464

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Born Again: A Lebanese-Dominican Dominican York is born again as a Bronxite, 2011. Susan Newmark Fleminger and William Aguado baptize Nicolás as a Bronxite with the water from The Bronx River. Photo: Alex Villaluz © 2011 Nicolás Dumit Estévez

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Young artist and activist Yelaine Rodriguez, 24, is presenting the second in a series of exhibits that connect artists from the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In the wake of new tensions on their shared island, Ms. Rodriguez launches this work on the strength of the ability of our common experiences as human beings to overcome perceived differences. La Lucha II brings together 28 established and emerging artists in what promises to be a provocative exhibition.

Here are 10 Questions for Yelaine Rodriquez:

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Jerome Avenue Workers Project Photo Exhibition presented by
Bronx Photo League & Bronx Documentary Center

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, October 3, 2015 5-8PM
at
Vasquez Muffler
1275 Jerome Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452

La Lucha is back with the exhibition La Lucha II DOM & HTI: Visions of Tomorrow, One Island, which focuses on the topic of immigration and the aspirations related to the process. Opening Reception, October 9th, from 6pm to 9pm,at Andrew Freedman Home 1125 Grand Concourse Bronx.