Anchor: An Exhibition Centered on the Photography of Hiram Maristany
When the radical Puerto Rican organization the Young Lords were demanding access to health care and affordable housing on the streets of East Harlem in the late 60s and 70s, a man named Hiram Maristany was documenting it. Maristany grew up in East Harlem taking pictures of everyday life and eventually the political protests of the Young Lords. Anchor, the exhibit at Hunter’s East Harlem art gallery, is showing several of Maristany’s unpublished photographs along with new work created by six other contemporary artists including Nicole Cohen, Selena Kimball, Miguel Luciano, Steven Perez, Saul Williams, and Caroline Woolard. The show will also include scheduled workshops and performances by these artists, which you can find more about here. This show gives you a chance to brush up on your Latino political history– one we rarely hear about – so head over to Hunter’s East Harlem gallery and visually educate yourself. The show will be up through June 13th.
Hunter East Harlem
The Silberman School of Social Work Building
2180 Third Avenue
(at 119th Street)
New York, NY 10035