The Cintas foundation announced of this year winner of the Visual Arts Emilio Sánchez Prize Gean Moreno. The result was released on June 7th, during the opening exhibition of the five finalists at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, at Florida International University (FIU). The five finalists of this edition were Alexandre Arrechea, Maria Martínez Cañas, Gean Moreno, Wilfrido Prieto and Leyden Rodríguez- Casanova. The exhibition will be opened until September 16th. Gean, of Cuban origin, was born in New York and currently resides in Miami. He is an artist, as well as a curator and an art critic. The judges for this year were Bonnie Clearwater, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA), and Silvia Karmen Cubiña, director of The Moore Space and Suzanne Delehanty, LLC. The Visual Arts Emilio Sánchez Prize was conceived with funds of the Cintas Foundation, created in honor of Oscar B. Cintas (Sagua La Grande, 1887- Nueva York, 1957), well-known as maecenas of the Cuban arts. The foundation was established in 1963 and since then it has played an important role in the preservation of Cuban culture, and has awarded grants to Cuban artists or to Cubans descendants who reside outside of the island. Over the years the so-called ¿Cintas grant¿ has became one of the most prestigious for Cuban artists. ne of the most prestigious for Cuban artists.