Community & transformation
Puerto Rico / 2017–2018

A Celebrar

Participatory mural-making, music and international artistic exchange supported community expression following Hurricane Maria.

ARTEGENESIS / PROJECT ARCHIVEAguada & La Perla, Puerto Rico

The creative process

The practice included an Aguada mural and a La Perla memorial mural. In 2018, the OMAI Goodness Tour International Art Convention brought professional artists from 18 countries into collaboration with Puerto Rican and Taíno artists, students and communities.

People & collaboration

Puerto Rican and Taíno artists, local communities, OMAI, The Goodness Tour and international artists.

A continuing conversation

This project belongs to a wider practice of community-authored expression. Its relationship to Artegenesis is explored as part of Benjamin’s developing research, without assuming identical effects across communities.

Explore the research

Source record: Updated Master CV; Methow Valley News, March 14, 2018; Luc Reynaud project archive.

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