The painter Alirio Oramas, a founding member of the Taller Libre de Arte, publishes details of his plan to reorganize the TLA. He presented the plan to Dr. Carlos Gottberg at the Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes (INCIBA) a year and a half earlier but has yet to receive a reply. The plan involves folding both the Talleres Periféricos de Arte and the Taller Libre de Arte into a new group called Taller Central de Arte. Oramas thus seeks to combine the artistic and socio-cultural activities of the two workshops. Oramas also sees a need to salvage and improve the TLA, given its important role in the Venezuelan arts. 

The plan to reorganize the TLA (Taller Libre de Arte), presented by the painter Alirio Oramas (b. 1924), who at the time was an official at the INCIBA (Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes), underscores the prevailing state of crisis at the Taller. According to Oramas, a founding member of the TLA, the plan was presented to Dr. Gottberg (also an official at the INCIBA), in response to the latter’s suggestion, but no reply had been received. This article and these declarations are in step with the Manifiesto S.O.S. that was being circulated at that time (November 1966). This suggests that Oramas was taking a number of different approaches in search of a solution.   

To read more documents about the TLA, see the following material in the ICAA digital archive: the introductory essay to the Taller, written by Rafael Pineda (untitled) (doc. no. 1101650">1101650); the prologues “Texto presentación,” by Bernardo Chataing about the TLA’s first group (doc. no. 1101666), “Texto presentación 3 Salón de jóvenes pintores del Taller Libre de Arte” by Luis Berroterán (doc. no. 1063067) and (untitled) [“Llegó el momento de ordenar el lenguaje universal (…)”] by Rafael Pineda (doc. no. 1101650">1101650); see also the article that records when the TLA was disbanded and replaced by another institution, the INCIBA, “Han sido destituídos todos los profesores del Taller Libre de Arte” (doc. no. 1172267).