Sharing the Spotlight: Amy Ponce & Mario Rubén Carrión
When: Saturday, December 7, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente
Sharing the Spotlight is presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias charts the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.
Teatro LATEA and Historias are pleased to co-present Sharing the Spotlight, a conversation series by emerging Latinx artists/photographers to run in tandem with the Borimix exhibition Maximo Rafael Colón: Storied Lens. For this series, Colón has extended an invitation to a select group of Latino photographers to share the spotlight in a series of artist talks where they will present and discuss their work.
This event will be the second of the series, a talk by artists Amy Ponce and Mario Rubén Carrión, discussing their photo practice, trajectory, and upcoming projects.
Amy Ponce was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, by Boricua parents. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Amy’s work has been focused on documenting the various facets of her Boricua roots and culture. Her work includes self-portraiture, mixed media, collage, video, and music. As an Arts Educator and community activist, she has always encouraged the art of storytelling via our “own lens”. Amy is also a member of the Nuyorican band Abrazos Army and has lent her voice to several social justice causes and cultural groups in NYC. Her work has been exhibited at the Gordon Parks Gallery at the College of New Rochelle, Boricua College, the Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, and other group exhibitions. She works out of her studio home in the Lower Hudson Valley, NY.
Mario Rubén Carrión is an artist and cultural worker from Caguas, Puerto Rico now based in Brooklyn, NY. As a photographer and filmmaker, he has documented the Latine community of New York City for over a decade, navigating the worlds of music, nightlife and organizing. He has led teams of visual artists in documenting Afro Latino Festival NYC and the New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF). Mario edited the award-winning documentary “We Still Here/Nos Tenemos” in 2021 and has since written and directed his first fiction short film, “Record Shop”, which recently wrapped its film festival run. He is currently the New Media Manager at the Caribbean Cultural Center & African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in Harlem, NY.