The Collection of prints from

El Taller Puertorriqueño

Myrna Báez • Juan Sánchez • Rafka González
Samuel Lind • Manuel Hernández • Ed Vera Cortez
Manuel Garcia Fonteboa • José Alicea • Antonio Martorell
Cándida Alvarez • Isabel Vasquez • Lizette Lugo
Doris Noqueira-Rogers • Gamaliel Ramírez • Sixto Cotto
Isabel Vásquez • Héctor Escalante Rivera • Antonio Maldonado
Luis Abram Ortiz • Lorenzo Homar

Taller Puertorriqueño was established in 1974 by Latino artists and activists in the North Kensington area of Philadelphia. They created a community based graphic arts workshop to provide cultural training alternatives to local youth. Throughout its history, Taller has been a vital resource to the barrio and to the region. It is now nationally recognized as a model organization that uses the arts as a vehicle for social change.

Alfonso Beckert

"Testimonio Irreverente De La Humanidad"

He is a active member of the teaching profession, who also works in the plastic arts genre to express the sentiments of a master, free thinker and preoccupied by the contemporary reality, with whom initial studies in medicine and fine arts converts himself into a self-taught, develloping a new technique that has raised a great interest in the public art lover. His reliefs invade the planimetric space of conventional pictures and places the sculptoric object in front of the spectator as a tactile volume that brings out the subjects of the latest news. His alusive works to a specific theme: War hunger, planetary destruction, Religious crisis and liberation. "My art tries to look for in that interior, archieve a chance of attitude that places man in the roll where he belongs like the superior being that populates the earth" says the artist.
He enters work at the fiscal teaching profession as a professor of the Normalist School Leonidas García. He directs the newspaper mural for an intercollegiate contest organized by the French Alliance and the subsecretary of Education, the subject of said contest was the French Revolution, again taking first place.