ABOUT THE CLEMENTE SOTO VÉLEZ CULTURAL & EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Founded in 1993, The Clemente is a Puerto Rican/Latinx multi-arts institution and cultural anchor in New York City’s Lower East Side/Loisaida. Housed in a City-owned former public school building at 107 Suffolk Street,The Clemente provides cultural infrastructure for artists, arts organizations, and community producers through affordable studios and spaces, exhibitions, performances, public humanities programs, and opportunities for gathering and exchange.
For more than three decades, artists and cultural organizations have made, rehearsed, performed, exhibited, organized, and gathered within its walls. The Clemente works to keep cultural space accessible and in community use, connecting neighborhood history and cultural memory with contemporary art, performance, and civic life while sustaining cultural production as a shared public resource.
The Clemente is a co-founder of the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY) and a member of the Coalition of Small Arts NYC (CoSA NYC).
HISTORIAS is a citywide art and public humanities initiative conceived and led by The Clemente and co-presented with LxNY. Through artistic commissions, oral histories, archives, public programs, augmented-reality monuments, and a digital platform, it examines how Latinx communities have made New York. HISTORIAS culminates in Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, a building-wide exhibition opening in spring 2027. Guadalupe Maravilla is among the participating artists.
Maravilla’s work is presented as a part of the HISTORIAS initiative charting Latinx contributions to New York City; and will feature in the HISTORIAS closing exhibition Reveladas: Nueva York in Plain Sight, opening March 19, 2027 at The Clemente. Creative Time and The Clemente will bring the two exhibitions into dialogue by presenting collaborative programming across both locations.
Support for the Migration and Spiritual Belief programming and artistic commissions of The Clemente’s HISTORIAS is provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.
theclementecenter.org/historias | @theclemente
ABOUT SYNOD HALL & CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
Founded in 1892 and one of the largest cathedrals in the world, the trustees of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine conceived its mission to be a house of prayer for all people, an instrument of church unity, and a center of intellectual light and leading in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
Today, as the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its bishop, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine serves the many diverse people of our diocese, city, nation and world through the worship of God; pastoral, educational and community outreach activities; cultural and civic events; international ecumenical initiatives; and the preservation of the great architectural and historic site that is its legacy.
About Synod Hall: Built in 1913, the building retains its name, “synod,” from the formal term for a council of church officials. It is a gathering place for a variety of events, which occur under its carved timber roof beams and colorful gristle windows, designed by Charles J. Connick.
For more information, visit www.stjohndivine.org and follow on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok @StJohnDivineNYC.
Image credit: Portrait of the artist for Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago. Artwork commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago, The Contemporary Austin–Laguna Gloria, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photo by Alex Boeschenstein.