Artist Talk with Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón & Juan Pablo Vizcaíno

Join us for an artist talk with the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition’s People’s Choice Award winners, Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón and Juan Pablo Vizcaíno Cortijo, exploring their vibrant 12-channel video, Hebras y Vejigantes.

Hebras y Vejigantes shows the tradition of vejigante mask carving from the Puerto Rican town of Loíza, which has a large population of descendants of free Black people and maroons who escaped enslavement during the Spanish colonial era. Against a soundtrack of flutes and bomba drumming, 13 individuals dressed in kente cloth and African wax prints stand tall while expressing themselves in ways that honor their Afro-Caribbean heritage, from braiding hair and spinning records to reading and dancing. Each activity takes place as Antonetty-Lebrón recites an ode to Black hair and Vizcaíno carves masks for the individuals in the video.