This event is part of a series – see below for details.February 14, 2025 10:00 a.m.
Graphic Voices of Latin America: Latin American Posters by Gráfica Latina & La Linterna
Event Details
Graphic Voices of Latin America
The Gráfica Latina exhibition at the WaterFire Arts Center Gallery showcases a powerful collection of Latin American posters that serve as both artistic expressions and historical documents of resistance, resilience, and cultural identity. Curated by José R. Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez of Buena Gráfica Social Studio, this exhibition presents graphic works from 16 countries across Latin America, spanning themes from political activism and environmental concerns to cultural storytelling. The collection highlights a diversity of printing techniques, typographic styles, and visual languages, including the work of La Linterna, a historic print shop in Cali, Colombia, known for its striking movable-type posters. By amplifying the voices of Latin American and Latinx designers, Gráfica Latina explores the ways in which graphic design has shaped and responded to the region’s dynamic social and political landscapes.
Exhibition-Related Programming
Curated and designed by Gráfica Latina, this exciting series of events accompanies Graphic Voices of Latin America at the WaterFire Arts Center, featuring the master printers of La Linterna, the renowned printshop from Cali, Colombia.
- Documentary Screening + Poster Sale – March 13 | 6:00 PM
Join us for a screening of La Linterna’s documentary, followed by a Q&A, live music by Luis Gilberto, and a special poster sale. - Wheatpaste Workshop + Poster Sale – March 15 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Learn the art of wheatpasting from La Linterna’s master printers and paste-up a poster of your choice. - Letterpress Workshop at DWRI Letterpress – March 16 (Location: DWRI Letterpress, one neighborhood over!)
Experience a rare hands-on opportunity to print posters using DWRI’s antique movable type and La Linterna’s linocuts, in collaboration with artist and printmaker Dan Wood. - Gallery Night Providence – March 20
Explore the exhibition as part of Gallery Night Providence, with guided tours at 6:45 pm and 7:45 pm led by curators José R. Menéndez and Tatiana Gómez of Buena Gráfica Social Studio.
Each event highlights the rich tradition of Latin American printmaking, celebrating the artistry and cultural impact of La Linterna and the broader graphic arts movement.
Graphic Voices of Latin America is part of the research project Gráfica Latina, a digital and mobile poster archive of Latin American and Latinx graphic design. The Latin American Posters have been curated by Gráfica Latina to speak about the social, economic, and political contexts in which these posters were—or/and still are— created from Patagonia to the Andes, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America. The show presents the work by graphic artists and designers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The show represents a diversity of printing techniques, vernacular languages, methods of representation (illustration, typography/calligraphy/lettering, and color), and messaging ranging from cultural to political, and environmental.
Graphic Voices of Latin America has been supported by the WaterFire Arts Center, Northeastern University, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, La Linterna and Fabián Villa, Ccopacatty, Rosalee Pike and Aymar Ccopacatty. Special thanks to Jacob Mitchel, Howie Sneider, Delia Rodríguez-Masjoan, María Cecilia Gaggero and Roberto Gómez, Ryan Dean, and Buena Gráfica Social Studio.
Gallery space open from Thursday, February 13 – Sunday, March 23, 2025. All are welcome to the opening reception on Thursday, February 13 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
The WaterFire Arts Center store + gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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