PRIAA ARE VERY PROUD OF OUR SCULPTOR JOSE BUSCAGLIA
JOSE BUSCAGLIA ONE OF THE WORLD’S FINEST AND MOST ACCOMPLISHED SCULPTORS AND ONE OF PUERTO RICO’S FOREMOST ARTISTS. Photos: Alfonso Acevedo
Writter by Lydia Perez
Warwick, Rhode Island: José Buscaglia was born in the capital city of San Juan in 1938 and live in Johnston, Rhode Island. His involvement with art dates from the precocious age of eight. During this early phase in his career he underwent intensive training with the Catalonian teacher Ismael D’ Alzina. While a student at Harvard University, he spent a year abroad in Barcelona, Spain, working at the studio of world-renowned sculptor Enrique Monjo. He also took courses at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge where Picasso, Dalí, and Miró had studied earlier. Following his 1960 graduation he collaborated with Monjo working as his assistant. Returning to Puerto Rico in 1962, Buscaglia held positions for 18 years at the University of Puerto Rico as a professor, sculptor in residence, and director of fine arts.
His lifelong interest in the nature of the creative process and thinking skills, led to his participation in the designing and implementation of experimental educational programs in Venezuela from 1979 to 1985. A joint effort by Harvard University and the Venezuelan government led to an innovative program known as “Project Intelligence”.
Buscaglia is perhaps one of the most prolific artists in the field on monumental sculpture, with major shows at Harvard University, Yale University, Rockefeller Center in New York, and several time in (Washington, D.C.) as: “Unofficially the most important gift to the gallery since its opening…” Artist/Professor Ben Shan said of José Buscaglia: “There are few sculptors, young or old, who have the courage to go their own ways, not to be overwhelmed by trends and by journalistic approval; there are fewer still that have the competence to do the kind of work that José can does.”
Buscaglia has authored close to 40 public monuments in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the United States. He is a Fellow Member of the National Sculpture Society and a founding member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences of Puerto Rico. As an educator he has taught and lectured at leading institutions in Europe, Latin American and the United States, and has published considerably on the teaching of intelligence and the voluntary control of the creative process.
First Photo: Buscaglia was the speaker for Past, Present Santos of Puerto Rico Exhibition. Exhibition brought from Puerto Rico in 1999.
Sponsor by the Puerto Rico Institute of Puerto Rico in collaboration with the Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Foundation.
Second photo: Holiday card sent to Lydia Perez by Jose Buscaglia.
Join us at the Dedication of this Monument to the Puerto Rican Family, Wednesday, September 23, 2009
10:00a.m.
Learning Corridor (Corner of Vernon & Washington Streets), Hartford, Connecticut
Be part of history in the making....unveiling of the only monument in the world dedicated to
LA FAMILA PUERTORRIQUEÑA
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