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(Rahway, NJ) --Arts Guild New Jersey is pleased to present Roots/Raices curated by Robert Rosado, Director of La Ruche Art Contemporary Consortium (LRACC). The exhibition, which opens on October 18 and runs through November 12, 2015 will have a free, public reception on Sunday, October 18, 1-4 PM, at Arts Guild New Jersey, 1670 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065. Gallery Hours are Mon-Thurs 10am-4pm, Fri: 10am to 2pm, Sat & Sun: 1-4pm or by appointment for groups of 10 or more. The exhibition is wheelchair accessible.
La Ruche Art Contemporary Consortium (LRACC) presents an innovative art exhibition titled Roots/Raices, which will highlight diverse international ethnic groups, examining their unique cultural differences through the lens of visual art. This artistic examination of diverse ethnic groups will focus primarily on each culture’s ethnicity, exploring the social customs and traditions that define and characterize each selected ethnic group, investigating ancestral links, as well as their collective social, cultural, or national experience(s). Also important to this LRACC project will be how the roots of cultural heritage and ancestry determine origin myths, cultural history, devotion to their familial homeland, language and/ or dialect, shared ideologies, including symbolic systems such as religion, mythology, and rituals. Also, of consequence will be each group’s particular cuisine, dress, and sense of style, including their general attitude about life. Through the Roots/Raices art exhibition LRACC plans to shed light on all that pertains to ethnicity within each selected culture: Puerto Rican, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Honduran, Colombian, USA.
Featured artists for this exhibit are: Jose Acosta, Angeles Badia, Walter Barco Bajana, Gerardo Castro, Pablo Caviedes, Carlos Chavez, Christine Devereaux, William Franco, Violeta Guzman, Hernando Rico Sanchez, Dr. Jose Rodeiro, and Wichie Torres.
For more information about this program and exhibit opportunities at Arts Guild New Jersey visit www.agnj.org .
