Viva la resistencia: Women artists in Puerto Rico and outside.

This list is an initial and urgent response to the sexist bias inserted in the national and international press discourses that continuously undermines the presence and visibility of women as an active part of the artistic class in Puerto Rico. Moved by the intention of raise awareness about their condition as Puerto Rican women and as Puerto Rican artists affected by stereotypes, sexism and colonialism as factors getting worse by the actual economical crisis, this list is a claim to the press, critics, historians and writers to grant visibility to their art and labour as actions of resistance. Women artists are present and contributing to the cultural scene in Puerto Rico from the Island and from the outside, firmly being part as important as their male counterparts. The Puerto Rican artistic class is not a masculine one.

–  Raquel Torres-Arzola, 2015

Women Artists / Women in the Arts in Puerto Rico and outside:

 

Rebeca Adorno

Inés Aponte

Jennifer Allora

Rosenda Alvarez Faro

Myrna Báez

Migdalia Barens

Elizabeth Barreto

Tari Beroszi

Jeannette Betancourt

Sylvia Blanco

Carmen Inés Blondet

Ada Bobonis

Annex Burgos

Sofía Cáceres

Veronica Cabrera

Maribel Canales

Amanda Carmona Bosch

Aileen Castañeda

Myritza Castillo

Carola Cintrón Moscoso

Marla Cirino

Brenda Cruz

Nayda Collazo-Llorens

Nina Coll

Cristina Córdova

Lourdes Correa Carlo

Karla Cott

Lorraine De Castro

Diana Dávila Casanova

Bárbara Díaz Tapia

Dafne Elvira

Susana Espinosa

Alia Farid

Mónica Félix

Frances Gallardo

Sofia Gallisá Muriente

Michelle Gratacos

Consuelo Gotay

Anaida Hernández

Norah Hernández

Vanessa Hernández Gracia

Rosa Irigoyen

Alana Iturralde

Ivelisse Jiménez

Lala Juana

Marta Lahens Conde

Haydeé Landing

Juanita Lanzó

Yamcy Leslie

Teresa López

Sofía Maldonado

Ivonne Marcial

Poli Marichal

Margarita Marini

Connie Martín

Mari Mater O’Neill

Leila Mattina

Catherine Matos Olivo

Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

Alejandra Martorell

Elsa María Meléndez

María Melero

Zuania Minier Stephanie Monserrate

Cynthia Morales

Colectivo Moriviví

Lilliam Nieves

Nora Maite Nieves

Las Nietas de Nonó

Nube

María Antonia Ordoñez

Carmen Olmo

Betsy Padín

Nibia Pasatrana

María Elena Perales

Marnie Pérez

Marta Mabel Pérez

Marta Pérez García

Marili Pizarro

Marisol Plard Narváez

Ivonne Prats

Raquel Quijano

Mercedes Quiñones

Isabel Ramírez Pagan

Jomary Ramírez Segarra

Aixa Requena

Myrna Renaud

Doris Ríos

Dhara Rivera

Ana Rivera

Melanie Rivera Flores

Ana Rivera

Angélica Rivera

Frances Rivera

Julia Rivera

Shey Rivera

Waleska Rivera

Elizabeth Robles

Giovanna Rodríguez

Lorraine Rodríguez

Monica Rodríguez

Gisela Rosario

Daniela Rossello Ledesma

Awilda Rodríguez Lora

Nora Rodríguez Vallés

Noemi Ruiz

Diane C Sánchez

 

Zilia Sánchez

Linda Sánchez Pintor

 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Alexandra Santos

Noemi Segarra

Chaveli Sifre

Awilda Sterling

Edra Soto

Cacheila Soto

Merián Soto

Nicole Soto

Admina Torres

Raquel Torres-Arzola

Cristina Tufiño

Viveca Vázquez

Anabel Vázquez

Myriam Vázquez

Zinthia Vázquez

Isabel Vázquez Maldonado

Angelí Vélez

Yolanda Velázquez

Norma Vila

Haydee Yordan

Cosette Zeno

Rebecca Zilenziger

Publicado por Raquel Torres-Arzola, 2015

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