MuseumFebruary 12, 2024
Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) Alliance
After two years of collaboration, the Museo de Arte de Ponce and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) will continue to offer the public the opportunity to enjoy various exhibitions as part of the extension of the agreement between both institutions that will now be in effect until 2026.
As part of this alliance that began in 2021, the MAPR has surrendered one of its galleries to the Museo de Arte de Ponce to exhibit shows of its collection and thus continue to make its mission of making it accessible to the communities while repair work is being carried out on its Edward Durell Stone building in Ponce.
"The renewal of this alliance allows us to keep alive a valuable space for our Museum so that we continue to allow the public to enjoy exhibitions of our collection while moving forward with repairs to the building that houses our main galleries, affected by the 2020 earthquakes. In addition, the agreement allows us to expand the dialogue and educational offerings in conjunction with our sister institution, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which ultimately results in great value for the entire community. We are very grateful to the Board of Trustees and the Museum's executive director for once again opening their doors to us," said Rubí Rodríguez-Bustillo, interim executive director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
The first exhibition of the renewed alliance is La imagen subyacente (The Underlying Image). This project, curated by Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, curator of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, will show how technical documentation, specifically xrays and infrared photographs, is used to discover and learn more about the hidden vestiges of the creative process in paintings from the collection from the 16th to the 18th centuries. On view from April 4 to August 18, 2024. In early 2025, as a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962), a traveling exhibition that opened in 2022, as a collaboration with the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago, currently on view at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and will make a third stop at the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Florida, before returning to Puerto Rico, will be presented for the first time on the island.
"This alliance also allows us to enhance our mission of connecting with the community with an international perspective, so, again, we welcome them to our home," says Dr. María C. Gaztambide, executive director of MAPR.
For more information about the calendar of exhibitions and educational activities that will be part of the partnership, visit the social media of both museums (@museoarteponce, @MuseoMAPR) and on the websites, www.museoarteponce.org/ and www.mapr.org.
As part of this alliance that began in 2021, the MAPR has surrendered one of its galleries to the Museo de Arte de Ponce to exhibit shows of its collection and thus continue to make its mission of making it accessible to the communities while repair work is being carried out on its Edward Durell Stone building in Ponce.
"The renewal of this alliance allows us to keep alive a valuable space for our Museum so that we continue to allow the public to enjoy exhibitions of our collection while moving forward with repairs to the building that houses our main galleries, affected by the 2020 earthquakes. In addition, the agreement allows us to expand the dialogue and educational offerings in conjunction with our sister institution, the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which ultimately results in great value for the entire community. We are very grateful to the Board of Trustees and the Museum's executive director for once again opening their doors to us," said Rubí Rodríguez-Bustillo, interim executive director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
The first exhibition of the renewed alliance is La imagen subyacente (The Underlying Image). This project, curated by Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, curator of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, will show how technical documentation, specifically xrays and infrared photographs, is used to discover and learn more about the hidden vestiges of the creative process in paintings from the collection from the 16th to the 18th centuries. On view from April 4 to August 18, 2024. In early 2025, as a tribute to the 25th anniversary of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962), a traveling exhibition that opened in 2022, as a collaboration with the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago, currently on view at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and will make a third stop at the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Florida, before returning to Puerto Rico, will be presented for the first time on the island.
"This alliance also allows us to enhance our mission of connecting with the community with an international perspective, so, again, we welcome them to our home," says Dr. María C. Gaztambide, executive director of MAPR.
For more information about the calendar of exhibitions and educational activities that will be part of the partnership, visit the social media of both museums (@museoarteponce, @MuseoMAPR) and on the websites, www.museoarteponce.org/ and www.mapr.org.
