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Painter, printmaker and professor. She earned a bachelor’s degree in arts from Inter American University in San Germán in 1953 and a master’s degree from New York University in 1956. She studied with George McNeil and was a lithography student at the Students’ Association Workshop of the University of California at Berkeley. She completed doctoral studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She was an art professor at Inter American University of Puerto Rico until her retirement. In 1979 she was appointed director of the Arts Department and in 2006 she was conferred the title of Professor Emeritus. In 1984 she was founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. As a tireless promoter of art teaching, from 1988 to 1989 she was a member of the board of directors of the School of Visual Arts of San Juan and of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. Along with Olga Albizu, she is one of the key artists in the development of abstract art in Puerto Rico. She has captured in her work the range of colors and rhythms that characterize our tropical region into compositions that portray great visual and expressive force which she has developed from personal ideas and feelings.