We invite you to visit our new exhibition, “The CINTAS Foundation: An Archival Perspective,” on view from August 2023 to May 2024 in the gallery of the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion, home of the Cuban Heritage Collection. This exhibition was made possible through the support of The CINTAS Foundation, Aida Levitan and ArtesMiami, and Rafael and Marijean Miyar. The exhibition celebrates the important contribution to Cuban and Cuban diasporic cultural production by the CINTAS Foundation, whose records were generously donated to the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries in 2019.
Established in 1957 with funds from the estate of the late Oscar B. Cintas (1887–1957), Cuban ambassador to the United States and a prominent industrialist and patron of the arts, the CINTAS Foundation’s mission has been to support the development and expression of cultural producers of Cuban descent and to make their work accessible to the wider public. Since 1963, through the creation of a fellowship program, the CINTAS Foundation has awarded yearly grants to Cuban artists working in the fields of the visual arts, creative writing, music, and architecture and design.
Materials representing these artists’ work, such as artists’ books, original manuscripts, administrative records, video, photography, drawings, and ephemera by CINTAS fellows, are on display, culled mainly from the CINTAS Foundation, Inc. records and the vast holdings of other archival and printed materials housed at the Cuban Heritage Collection. This curated grouping of materials represents the Cuban diaspora’s rich and diverse cultural production from mid-twentieth century to the present. “The CINTAS Foundation: An Archival Perspective” also provides the unique opportunity to present documentation by or about CINTAS fellows from within the specific context of the archive, offering insights into the inner workings of the creative process.
The wide scope these works cover—across various disciplines and media, representative of different generations, and distinct historical moments—is a testament to the important legacy of the mission of the CINTAS Foundation in supporting and helping preserve Cuban cultural patrimony around the world, a mission it shares with the Cuban Heritage Collection.
To schedule a tour of the exhibition, email us at chc@miami.edu.
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