Raquel Costa is a Portuguese award-winning artist, author and illustrator. She has a degree in Fine Arts – Sculpture and a Master’s in Art Education and she has illustrated more than twenty children’s books. In 2024, she debuted into full authorship with the picture book “25 Mulheres”. This book´s illustrations won a Merit Award at the 11th Hiii Illustration International Competition and were juried into the Society of Illustrators 67th Annual Exhibit and Book. This work was also shortlisted as Finalist for the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition in 2025. In 2021, the book “Noa”, written Susana Cardoso Ferreira, was selected for the prestigious White Ravens catalog, by the Munich International Youth Library, shortlisted for the Bologna International Children's Book Fair Illustration Competition and the 7th Hiii Illustration International Competition, and winner of the Bissaya Barreto Children’s Books Award in 2022. Raquel is also co-founder of Little Black Spot Creative Studio, with multidisciplinary work ranging from editorial illustration, concept art and design, to branding and advertising. She regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and abroad, and runs illustration workshops for both children and adults. She’s currently an invited assistant professor at IPCA College School of Design (Portugal) and is an educator at Adobe in the field of Digital Illustration.
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Iconic Afro-feminist and Afro-Caribbean poet and visual artist Ángela María Dávila Malavé left as part of her legacy, animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal, a force of rhythm and a delicate combination of the of the expressive and the colloquial in the language. Originally published in 1977 (Editorial QueAce, Puerto Rico), it has never been translated into English, until now accompanied by never before seen unpublished materials. Join Puerto Rican Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, and CENTRO's Managing Editor for the Press, Cristina Pérez Díaz as we present the newly translated animal fiero y tierno/ fierce and tender animal.
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Join artist Glorimar Garcia & CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa, as we explore Garcia's contribution to Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery at the Silberman School of Social Work from March 13th - September 2025. Garcia's work draws on the Puerto Rican bobbin lacemaking tradition, called mundillo, which translates to "little world". This tradition, which was brought to Puerto Rico by Spanish settlers, became an important economic activity for women across the archipelago. Garcia taught herself this method of lacemaking as a way of staying connected to Puerto Rico and to reflect upon the religious culture in which she was raised. She combines mundillo with her own family photographs and archival postcards to advertise Frank Espada's traveling exhibitions of the "Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project."
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