Despite the relative small size of the island, Puerto Rico is home to the highly creative proliferation of traditional arts and crafts that keep these centuries’ old traditions innovative and alive. This sample of one of Puerto Rico’s largest contemporary Arts and Crafts collection, the Museo de las Américas in Old San Juan, brings to our community examples of some of the very best.
About the Gallery
Taller Puertorriqueño,
Inc. was established in 1974 as a community based cultural education
organization. Taller's primary purpose is to preserve, develop and
promote Puerto Rican artistic and cultural traditions, as well as
to support a better understanding of other Latin American cultures
and our common heritage. Taller is situated in the largest Puerto
Rican neighborhood of Philadelphia, the North-Kensington area.
Taller serves as a unique cultural educational resource to its community
as well as to the City of Philadelphia in general. Taller Puertorriqueño
occupies two buildings, the Educational Center and the Bookstore
& Gallery Center, which are located within a block of each other.
The Educational Center houses the Cultural Awareness Program (CAP),
the Robert P. Hernandez Theater; utilized for such community events
as performances, meetings and other cultural activities, and the
Youth Artist Program (YAP). The Bookstore & Gallery Center houses
the Julia de Burgos Bookstore, The José Campeche-Francisco Oller
Gallery, and the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Archives and Museum collection.
