Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Since its opening, the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center has focused on the preservation of the Puerto Rican and Latino culture for the Lower East Side community.
Watch the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY #PuertoRicanVoices episode on The Clemente - named after the one and only acclaimed Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and activist Clemente Soto Vélez in order to continue his legacy.
In and Out of Focus: Adal Maldonado & Miguel Algarín
The Clemente and LATEA mourn and celebrate two LES/Loisaida pillars of the Nuyorican aesthetic. Their trans-formations allowed for our utopian imaginings of overlapping downtown art traditions where the 'invisible is possible and the impossible is visible'.
Accent on Patria?: Sounding out ancestries in the work of Jean Michel Basquiat
a conversation with historians Ayana Legros and Yasmin Ramirez to discuss the significance of Jean Michel Basquiat’s articulations of Puerto Rican and Haitian ancestry through his art.