Visite el Centro de Artes Populares
Date 1973
Dimensions 18 5/16" x 24 3/4"
Category Poster
Medium Silkscreen on paper
Genre Scenes
Period 20th Century
Collection Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Collection
Acknowledgement Gift of Banco Santander de Puerto Rico *Translation: Visit the Popular Arts Center

Manuel García Fonteboa

"Visite el Centro de Artes Populares*" (1973)

Description

Biography

Graphic artist and Professor. García studied architecture at Universidad de Puerto Rico (1965-1969), graphics with Antonio Martorell at Taller Alacrán (1968) and post graduate courses at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Currently, he is Professor of Design at the School of Architecture at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. He has received several prizes, such as, First Prize in Printmaking at the United Federal Savings Bank Competition (1975) and First Prize in Printmaking, UNESCO of Puerto Rico (1976). García’s work has been exhibited in and outside Puerto Rico, as in the Museum of the Latin American engraving in San Juan (1972), the national flag of Puerto Rico in Seville, Spain (1992) and several editions of the biennial of San Juan of the Latin American engraving and the Caribbean.