REVITALIZING PUERTO RICO

Flamboyan Arts Fund

Whether through theater, dance, music, literature or the visual arts, Puerto Ricans have always relied on the arts to tell our story and our daily lives.

Meet the Grantees

These organizations are working to preserve and promote the arts throughout the island.

Arts Education

Arts Education

Ateneo Puertorriqueño

The Ateneo Puertorriqueño was founded in 1876 and is a cultural institution that seeks to promote Puerto Rican sciences, literature and fine arts. The building, located in Old San Juan, serves as a museum, school, library and performance hall for the arts. The organization also produces regular publications about the arts.

 

Arts Education

Beta Local

Beta Local is an artist-run non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting critical thought and aesthetic practices in Puerto Rico through programs that foster knowledge exchange and trans-disciplinary collaboration.

 

 

Arts Education

Centro de Investigaciones Folklóricas de Puerto Rico

The mission of this organization is to carry out scientific research on Puerto Rican culture and its humanistic and socio-economic aspects. Centro de Investigaciones Folklóricas de Puerto Rico conducts conferences, workshops and other gatherings for student and community members. At the historic Casa Paoli, the organization also maintains permanent exhibitions dedicated to the African heritage, traditional Puerto Rican musical instruments, and the singer Antonio Paoli.

Arts Education

Corporación Piñones se Integra (COPI)

COPI’s mission is the transformation of impoverished and racialized populations in communities so that they are free of racism and oppression. The organization’s programs support social community work, economic development, defense of the environment, anti-racist activism and the artistic and cultural expressions of the community of Piñones-Loíza and the Puerto Rican people in general.


Arts Education

Crearte

Crearte has been in operation since 2001. This arts institution offers services aimed at helping young people between the ages of 4 and 21 who live in high risk communities build values and character through the arts. Crearte offers social work services in addition to its education programs to the communities in which it works.

 

Arts Education

Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular

The main objective of the Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular (National Foundation for Popular Culture) is to further the development of Puerto Rican popular culture through the study and promotion of cultural events and artists.

 

Arts Education

Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades

Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades (Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities) exalts humanistic values through its own initiatives and through the support of other high-quality proposals aimed at the development of programs that stimulate the analysis and dissemination of knowledge related to the Puerto Rican experience and reality.


Arts Education

La Calle Loíza

La Calle Loíza, Inc. contributes to the social and economic development of Santurce by creating quality cultural content and developing projects that, with art as a tool, highlight the richness of the local culture and the contribution of the residents of the neighborhood to the development of the island

Arts Education

The Miranda Foundation

The Miranda Foundation is dedicated to strengthening social justice by supporting non-profit organizations that seek to overcome differences and build bridges of understanding and convergence between different social and cultural groups.

Arts Education

Mujeres de Isla

Mujeres de isla promotes the emotional health, cultural, environmental and socioeconomic development of Culebra through programming that is driven by community needs.

 

Arts Education

Museo de las Américas

Through its permanent exhibitions of historical and anthropological themes, its temporary exhibitions, its educational program and its community outreach program -called “Extramuros” -, the Museo de las Américas fulfills its mission to offer an educational program to promote and preserve the cultural heritage of Puerto Rico and the Americas. The museum has presented around 525 temporary exhibitions of art, history, ethnography and anthropology. Programming also includes a variety of creative workshops, conferences, symposiums, musical presentations, and other activities.

 

Arts Education

Old San Juan Heritage Foundation

Old San Juan Heritage Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that strongly advocates for community development with initiatives that support the goals of creating a “Sustainable Community”. OSHF is a membership organization whose mission is to become the premiere Cultural Heritage enterprise in Puerto Rico that connects with the diaspora. Our goal is to help visitors experience Old San Juan as The Cradle of Hispanic Heritage in The New World while promoting social equity and economic development in the area.

 

CINEMA

CINEMA

Taller Cinemático

This nonprofit is dedicated to the promotion of culture through cinema and to making media accessible to communities and individuals of all ages and social groups. It supports independent productions that address social issues with a unique perspective about Puerto Rico’s cultural complexity.


DANCE

Dance

Andanza

This Puerto Rican Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 1998 by Lolita Villanúa, its artistic and executive director, in collaboration with María Teresa Robles, director of its education program. Andanza has developed an energetic and valuable educational program that includes classes to more than 300 students of all ages per year. Through the project Danza con Andanza, it gives workshops to 400 children and young kids from marginalized sectors and public schools in addition to scholarships.


 

Dance

Ballets de San Juan

A nonprofit institution leader in the education and professionalization of dance in Puerto Rico, Ballets de San Juan, promotes the development of the art of dance, nurturing national values and enhancing the Puerto Rican culture and identity.


Dance

Danzactiva

Danzactiva presents educational and artistic works emphasizing dance and music, integrating classical and popular forms and highlighting the Puerto Rican culture with all its diverse influences.

 

 

Dance

Mauro Inc

The organization promotes the creation and production of all kinds of experiences and scenic works, in order to provide new life opportunities, involving the less fortunate and the general public in art and culture. Specific programming includes a youth ballet company and classes in dance, theater and art.


LITERATURE

Literature

Instituto de Formación Literaria

The organization offers literary workshops in prisons, residenciales, and shelters, with the mission to provide each participant with the tools, motivation, and educational support to follow a new positive path in life. In the workshops, participants experience writing, reading, discussion, and criticism of assigned texts. This allows them to develop their creativity and communication skills, plus critical thinking.


Literature

La Casa del Libro

La Casa del Libro fosters knowledge and stimulate creativity through the oldest object developed to preserve the work and thought of humankind: the book. To achieve this they preserve, study, interpret and make accessible, through exhibitions, talks, workshops, publications, and other initiatives, their collection of extraordinary quality rare books, book arts-related objects, and artworks with the intention to educate, support, inspire and enrich Puerto Rican and international communities.


Literature

The Jane Stern Dorado Community Library

The Jane Stern Dorado Community Library enhances public-school education for the local community, providing services not otherwise available for students. The organization operates one main library and six satellite sites in public schools. In addition to the library, the organization provides after school programming and theater and instrumental music classes.


Music

Music

Banda Comunitaria de San Sebastián

Banda Comunitaria de San Sebastián offers classes in flute, trumpet, percussion, keyboard, guitar, cuatro, clarinet, and saxophone. Students are provided with music reading classes and tutorials with a specialist tutor in the subject. The purpose of the school is to create musicians who join the Community Band of San Sebastián. Its mission is to provide a music education program that contributes to the holistic development of its students.


Music

Casa Histórica de la Música Cayeyana

Casa Histórica de la Música Cayeyana promotes the study and dissemination of the musical history of the town of Cayey, while honoring the residents who have dedicated their lives to music or other arts. The organization uses the space for exhibitions, music performances, and music lessons.

Music

Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico

The Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico is a specialized public university that offers professional programs of undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as services, studies, and programs aimed to attract, educate, and develop students artistically and intellectually in the performance, teaching, and research of music.


Music

Coro de Niños de Ponce

The mission of Coro de niños de Ponce is to fully educate the children of the Southern Area of Puerto Rico through choral, vocal, and instrumental music; and, through concerts and presentations, educate the public promoting choral music of excellence, especially Puerto Rican music.


MUSIC

Coro de Niños de San Juan

The San Juan Children’s Choir is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a musical education to children between 5 and 18 years old. Students are selected after a detailed audition where the child’s musical skills and aptitude are evaluated. Founded in 1966, by its current Artistic Director, Evy Lucío Córdova, the San Juan Children’s Choir was the first institution of its kind in Puerto Rico and is today one of the more distinguished art organizations in Puerto Rico.


MUSIC

Decimanía

Decimanía promotes international exchange among “trovadores”; incentivizes children to learn how to write and improvise in the art of the Décima; and educates audiences about one of the most important poetic traditions in Puerto Rico.

 

Music

Fundación Arturo Somohano - Orquesta Filarmónica de Puerto Rico

The Foundation enables the average citizen to access the work of musicians and artists, through exposure to concert orchestras that interpret, in a symphonic style, the widest range of genres of popular music.

Music

Fundación de Culebra

Fundación de Culebra (Música pa’ Culebra) offers music classes to Culebra’s children and youth. In addition to teaching music skills, the program seeks to develop other life skills such as teamwork, structure, and perseverance to attain goals.

Music

Instituto Folklórico Puertorriqueño Rafael Cepeda Atiles

Instituto Folklórico Puertorriqueño Rafael Cepeda Atiles. The organization promotes the teaching of traditional music and dance, starting from the theoretical and practical foundations, such that students come to know, appreciate, value and develop his/her connection to the Puerto Rican cultural environment.

Music

Metropolitan Opera Auditions Committee Puerto Rico

The organization provides opportunities for local opera singers to be recognized internationally by running the Puerto Rico auditions for the Metropolitan Opera National Council.

 

 

MUSIC

Orfeón San Juan Bautista

Orfeón San Juan Bautista is a professional ensemble with a mission to enrich choral art in Puerto Rico through educational and cultural activities that include, but are not necessarily limited to: concerts for the general public, educational programs, recordings, and illustrated talks.

 

MUSIC

Taller Folklórico Central

Taller Folklórico Central is an organization established to rescue the Puerto Rican folklore through educational workshops for children in trova, folk dancing and painting.

Performing Arts

Performing Arts

ACirc

ACirc promotes the circus arts through performances and workshops. Its signature event is the annual CircoFest, a two-day event in Old San Juan. Their mission is to promote the development of the arts by offering artists spaces for the expression and dissemination of their work, reaching a greater number of people with a focus on communities with limited cultural offerings, and encouraging the use of public spaces through the street arts.


Performing Arts

Agua, Sol y Sereno

Agua, Sol y Sereno creates and stages new, experimental works of theater, in addition to offering workshops to public housing complexes and school communities. Their mission is to promote the development of Puerto Rican experimental theater and to democratize art so there’s access to theater and creative expression for broad sectors of society.

Performing Arts

La Escuela de Teatro

Since 2010, the School of Theater has bet on creativity as a tool to build a new and better world. Through their courses, workshops, and community programs, they provide skills that students can use to creatively transform each experience in their lives and provide solutions to the problems that exist in their environment.

Performing Arts

Teatro UPR

The historic Teatro UPR, part of the University of Puerto Rico was inaugurated in 1939. Since its construction, the Teatro UPR has been Puerto Rico’s most important cultural center and has been the venue for diverse productions, from theater and dance to symphonic orchestras, operas and popular artists. The theater also serves as the university’s aula magna and hosts academic activities, conferences and symposiums. Artists such as Marian Anderson, Monserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Richar Tucker, Zinka Milanoff, and Leonard Warren (who sang here before his debut with the Metropolitan Opera House) have performed at Teatro UPR. The theater has also hosted the world’s greatest ballet companies: Montecarlo’s Russian Ballet with Alicia Alonso, Margot Fonteyn, Alicia Markova, Ludmililla Scharina, Fernando Bujones and Igor Youskevitch.


Performing Arts

Y No Había Luz

Founded in 2005, this theater company gives communities a firsthand experience with visual and scenic arts through workshops, theater and other cultural projects. Its mission is to provide interdisciplinary artistic experiences that awake sensibility, beauty, creativity, social conscience and solidarity in the public. Through their work in education, they have visited many municipalities in the island to give workshops on creation and use of masks and puppets made with papier mache and recycled materials, among other initiatives.


 

Theater

Theater

Alquimia

Alquimia, Corp. was founded in 2003 and has stood out for its numerous musical theater productions in Puerto Rico. Their mission is to create an incubation and acceleration model for theater companies with the goal of regularly creating theater productions in Puerto Rico.

 

Theater

Cuarzo Blanco

Cuarzo Blanco is a coalition of artists that creates and organizes inclusive theater pieces, films, radio, readings for children, congresses, talks, editorial publications, and workshops. Cuarzo Blanco specifically focuses on accessibility and inclusion of the deaf community in the arts.

 

Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico

The School is dedicated to training professionals in the disciplines of plastic arts, design and art education, through an education that promotes creativity, humanistic development and visual culture.


Visual Arts

Liga de Arte de San Juan

Liga de Arte de San Juan provides artistic education without curricular restrictions, supporting the creative process of each student, in a unique cultural environment in Puerto Rico. The organization averages 420 students in each session of classes; in addition, it offers scholarships and exhibitions of professional artists.


Visual Arts

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art collects, documents, preserves, promotes and studies art produced from the 1950’s until now from Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Latin America and its diasporas. One of its main programs is MAC del Barrio which brings art to several communities around Santurce (where the Museum is situated) and the rest of the island.


Visual Arts

Museo de Arte de Ponce

The Museo de Arte de Ponce connects the community with the richness of Western art and its makers, from the 14th century to the present. It promotes discovery, stimulates curiosity, and fosters dialogue.


Visual Arts

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

Opened in 2000, the mission of the Puerto Rico Art Museum is to enrich the lives the public by providing them with the knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts of Puerto Rico and the world. With 24 exhibition halls in the building, its dynamic and innovative permanent and temporary exhibitions offer visitors the opportunity to explore works of great diversity from artists, historical periods and themes, allowing them to catch up on the development of local and international art.


Visual Arts

Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar

MADMi (Miramar Museum of Art and Design) is an interactive space that aspires to generate ambitious, relevant projects that foster art-making and creativity and a positive impact on the community. Its mission is to inspire through art and design and encourage inventiveness, innovation, and creativity as catalysts for social well-being.


 

Visual Arts

Taller Escuela de Diseño y Arte Funcional

The School of Design and Functional Art Workshop is dedicated to training students at a professional level in woodworking crafts, including design and construction of artistic furniture and jewelry, upholstery and framing, through education that promotes creativity, design and development of occupational skills. The organization aspires for its graduates to use the skills developed as a viable alternative for self-employment.

 

Others

Causa Local

Causa Local is a data and impact-driven global non-profit, created to disrupt the local process that provides access to capital in Puerto Rico. We are access to the capital ladder of platforms and resources aim to assist small businesses, depending on the level in their business and the type of growth & impact they want to create locally and globally.


 

 

CERF+

CERF+ was started by artists for artists in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort in 1985. It has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. CERF+ serves artists who work in craft disciplines by providing a safety net to support strong and sustainable careers. Our core services are education programs, advocacy, network building, and emergency relief.


Inversion Cultural

Inversión Cultural is a non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen the cultural and creative ecosystem through research, education, and consulting to entities whose main activities are arts, culture, and creative industries. The organization encourages the development of arts and cultural initiatives through projects such as the Nido Cultural. The organization stands out for its holistic capacity to offer finances and accounting, management, audience development, and strategic planning services oriented towards the cultural sector.

 

NALAC

Since 1989, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures has delivered programs that stabilize and revitalize the US Latino arts and cultural sector via funding, leadership training, convenings, research, and advocacy.


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