The Clemente is excited to be working with current LAZO residents and Latinx Spaces to produce and ongoing series of audio and video recordings with artists and curators. On May 28th, Alva Mooses (LAZO co-founder and Special Projects Consultant at The Clemente) met with curators Sara Garzón and Ameli Klein to learn more about their collaborative curatorial project Collective Rewilding which they founded with Croatian curator Sabina Oroshi. They are planning a roundtable discussion to take place at The Clemente later this year.

The Clemente presents TGIF a pop-up group exhibition by current sculpture students at The Cooper Union School of Art focused on contemporary spirituality and transcendence. The works will be on view in Studio 406, a former classroom and experimental installation space at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. in the Lower East Side, New York City. The artists aim to create a recontextualization/moulding of our collective and lived experience. Rooted in bodily sensations, the environment, new aged medicine, and recontextualization of religious motifs and Judaica, the artists examine the ways in which they find immanence and transcendence in the everyday.

 GOOD AND BAD GOVERNMENT. Photographs and paintings by : Robert Birmelin,  Stephen Petegorsky, Ram Rahman and Paul Smith. April 23-May 22, 2021. Opening April 23rd from 5-8 PM. RSVP REQUIRED for opening, rsvp here. Contact: Paul Smith polsmit@hotmail.com

You Enter Dancing/There's Always Sign is a collaborative installation by Alva Mooses and Mauricio Cortes that opened this March 2021 at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. It is on view until April 7th, 2021. Drawing from their on-going research on sign systems that subvert colonial enterprises, Mooses' and Cortes' installation raises questions of belonging, movements and immigration, presence and absence.

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 now!