We Are You Project International

As part of fall 2012’s “National Hispanic Heritage Celebration,” Arts Guild New Jersey will present an inspiring exhibition of contemporary Latino art entitled: WE ARE YOU PROJECT INTERNATIONAL from September 9 to October 4, 2012. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Sunday, September 9, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM and is open to all. Admission is Free and light refreshments will be served. The Exhibit will take place at the Arts Guild New Jersey galleries located at 1670 Irving Street Rahway, NJ. For further information about this exhibit, or other exhibits at Arts Guild New Jersey, please visit our website www.agnj.org.

This insightful thought-provoking exhibition, developed by We Are You Project, represents the first comprehensive, coast-to-coast, artistic overview of the current state of Latino socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions in the 21^st Century.   The show sheds light on both alarming and promising conditions that presently surround and confront Ibero-Americans throughout the United States as well as Latin America. 

This exhibit reveals both prescient Latino concerns as well as achievements, which are reflected in paintings, prints, and  mixed-media works by thirty-five prominent, contemporary Hispanic artists, whose extensive transcultural and pan-Latino-heritage(s) can be traced to diverse Latin American nationalities, including Mexico, Puerto-Rico, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Spain and Portugal.  Most importantly, each artist in the exhibit or their families have experienced the perspective of being an immigrant, refugee, a migrant, expatriate, or nomad, who gratefully found a new home in the  United States, and where over the course of years, they have attained professional success by expressing in their visual art both their vision and unique personal story.  

The thirty-five exhibiting We Are You Project artists, which are celebrating their “Hispanic Heritage” through their art, include: José Acosta, Efren Alvárez, Nelson Alvárez, Willie Báez, Josephine Barreiro, Hugo X. Bastidas,, Monica S. Camin, Priscila De Carvalho, Jacqui Casale, Gerardo Castro, Pablo Caviedes, Carlos Chavez, Williams Coronado, Maritza Dávila, Rosario D'Rivera, Ricardo Fonseca, Fernando Goldoni, Elizabeth Jiménez Montelongo, Roberto

Marquez, Raphael Montañez Ortíz, Hugo Morales, Lisette Morel, Patricio Moreno Toro, Gabriel Navar, Julio Nazario, Jimmy Peña, Joe Peňa, Duda Penteado,  Mel Ramos, Rolando Reyna, Jesus Rivera, José Rodeiro, Marta Sanchez, Sergio Villamizar and Raúl Villarreal. 

At the Opening Reception Sunday, September 9 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM), Dr. Carlos Hernández, as well as Mr. Mario Tapia, two of the “Founders and leaders of the We Are You Project” will speak about the Project’s future and its ground-breaking socio-cultural significance for all Latinos.   In additionally, Hiram Colon, the composer of the We Are You theme-song, will perform in collaboration with singer Sophia Angelica, of the Dora the Explorer television show.