Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, New York-based Puerto Rican artist Marcos Dimas discusses how participating in an exhibition of Puerto Rican artists at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1969 led to his involvement in forming the Puerto Rican Art Workers Coalition (PRAWC [...]

In this letter, artist Marcos Dimas writes to art critic Lucy R. Lippard and invites her to review his exhibition at El Museo del Barrio. Dimas discusses his participation in an activist artist collective, known as the Art Workers’ Coalition, and [...]

In this short essay, Marcos Dimas discusses his participation in a 1969 group show of Puerto Rican artists at the Brooklyn Museum, where he displayed two paintings, and his first assemblage. He notes that he met the future cofounders of the Puerto [...]

Marcos Dimas discusses his participation in a 1969 group show of Puerto Rican artists at the Brooklyn Museum where he displayed two paintings, and his first assemblage. Dimas notes that he met the future cofounders of the Puerto Rican artist [...]

Marcos Dimas, an artist and cofounder of Taller Boricua [Puerto Rican Workshop], relates the early history and ideals of the Taller. The three main objectives of the artists who founded the collective were: 1) to create a forum for the artistic [...]

Marcos Dimas, artista y cofundador del Taller Boricua, ofrece en este prefacio una breve perspectiva general de la evolución del Taller desde la década de setenta al año 2000. En el texto, Dimas describe las dificultades que tuvo que superar el [...]