'A recent summit highlights the diversity—and difficulties—among Chicago’s vibrant Latino arts and cultural sector; House Theatre of Chicago pulls down the curtain.' | kerryreid
, echoed Wilson’s 26-year-old observation during the summit by noting, “We have to work double to get a fraction of what predominantly white institutions have historically received. We are often forced to partner with these institutions because it raises our visibility or gives us the credit we need. But what happens when we partner? The larger institutions mine us for their new audiences. They don’t give us an equitable portion of the box office. They apply for our grants.
Angell notes that his foundation had previously held small discussion groups with Latino arts leaders prior to the pandemic. “I was speaking with a number of groups and I mentioned to them that it was my wish that arts groups would come out of the pandemic with big plans, because I was fearful that the public was too accustomed to going without live arts performances.
Founded by Hernández Falcón 25 years ago, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance has provided support for music performance, studio arts training for youth, and much more, including, as Hernández Falcón notes, “an archive program that stores and researches the Puerto Rican community in the midwest, through the digitization and preservation of historical photographs from our community.” He led the breakout on fundraising and tech support.
“We’re trying to advocate and demonstrate that we’re here,” says Hernández Falcón. “And the idea here is that we need people to learn that and to dig deeper into who we are as part of the cultural fabric in Chicago, as a cultural community in Chicago. There’s two things going on here. Number one is that there are rich individuals, there are well-funded foundations who think about art as being Eurocentric, who think that is fine, right? ‘That is what I fund. That is how I am programmed.
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