Teatro LATEA Presents: TERTULIA with Nitza Trufiño & Miguel Trelles

On Wednesday, February 10 @ 8pm Teatro LATEA hosted a night of Tertulia with Puerto Rican (the original Bori-Mex) visual artist (painter, printmaker, muralist), activist and New Yorker extraordinaire Nitza Tufiño joined by Executive Director of LATEA, Miguel Trelles. Watch the event recording here.

Nitza was born in Mexico City, she studied art at the Academia San Carlos in Mexico City. During her college years in Mexico she was privileged to meet Alfaro Siquieros, who was instrumental in inspiring her to understand and love the world of murals. It is because of Siquieros, that she chose to become known first as a muralist and public artist.

Upon receiving her BFA in 1970 she decided to settle in Manhattan, where she worked as an artist. In 1973 she created her first public mural for the façade of then community-based El Museo del Barrio, of which she is a founder as an artist activist, that is now located on New York’s Museum Mile on 5th Avenue.