The Flamboyan Arts Fund is proud to fund the following grant recipients in 2018. These organizations are working to preserve and promote the arts island-wide. Our open grants process will begin in February 2019. If you are an arts organization in Puerto Rico interested in funding, tell us about your organization and sign up to be notified when the grants cycle begins at: http://eepurl.com/dKQTsI.
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.
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.
Puerto Rico Art Museum
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Música pa’ 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.
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.
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.
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.