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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Winner of a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Competition Grant</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> May - September 2014</strong></p>
Getting to Know You (Conociéndote) continues Taller Puertorriqueño's (Taller) efforts to transform the community it serves into a cultural <b>hub, </b>a <b><i>Corazón Cultural</i></b>, a crossroads where people come together. Conociéndote builds on Taller's programming strengths to integrate five exhibition sites centering around three commissioned, month-long, multi-media, socially relevant outdoor art installations in and around its campus at the intersection of 5th Street and Lehigh Avenue, an area known as El Centro de Oro (The Golden Center), a commercial/residential Latino neighborhood. The innovative, fresh, contemporary art will attract Philadelphia’s Center City arts audience while increased access, welcoming and encouragement will allow local residents to demystify and interact with exhibited artwork, bringing economically, educationally and culturally disparate groups together and building bridges between communities. <b></b>

Three events in 2014 serve as installation openings, accompanied by exhibits at four partner organizations and Taller's own gallery. Outreach will be done to school groups and our afterschool students to tour the exhibits. Music and dance performances will enhance each event.

<strong>May 9</strong>: New York-based artists Patricia Cazorla and Nancy Saleme will paint large, semi-permanent murals of colorful decorative lace patterns (brocados) in conspicuous locations on the ground in the nearby surface parking lot and on the walls of our Vestíbulo gallery at the entrance of our store/gallery building. By bringing elaborate, domestic objects into unexpected settings, this work challenges the viewer’s relationship with space.

<strong>July 11</strong>: Philadelphia-based artist José A. Ortiz Pagán will transform the garden area alongside our store/gallery building into a “sanctuary” for community residents to rest, interact and become comfortable, drawing on the arts to strengthen neighborhood life. The piece will include film screenings about the Latino Diaspora, large painted maps of the neighborhood, and a sound installation of compiled outdoor recordings of barrios in other cities and countries.

<strong>September 21</strong>: Collaborative duo Maya Escobar and Andria Morales will produce an extension of their ongoing project, American Media Output, an online brand design and marketing agency addressing the consequences of proposed immigration legislation in the U.S. The piece will include bus station ads, a tent staffed with promo models at our annual Feria del Barrio festival, and, in our gallery, documentation from previous interventions, a marketing agency desk and scheduled artist meetings with visitors.

To build connections between Taller and attendees and between attendees themselves, Twitter and Facebook accounts will be created to publish live tweets and status updates during events, encouraging participants to travel between exhibits. A page dedicated to Conociéndote content will also be added to our website to provide information before and documentation after each event.

<em>A special thank you to our exhibition funders:</em>

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Interested in becoming a sponsor? Download the Sponsorship Packet <a title="Conociéndote/Getting to Know You Sponsorship Packet" href="http://tallerpr.org/?attachment_id=1328" target="_blank">here</a> and/or contact Katherine Heilman, Development Associate, at kheilman@tallerpr.org or 215-426-3311.