I went to El Museo’s Annual Young International Circle event this past Friday, October 24th and as has been the case with all the other El Museo events I’ve attended (where fashion power-couple Isabel and Reuben Toledo can often be spotted), the crowd was cheerful and dressed to the nines for a night of dancing, drinking, noshing, and bidding on items from their silent auctions all the while tunes by DJ Steven Love of Noveau Riche played in the background.
All proceeds of the auction and event benefited El Museo’s Education and Community Programs. For a little history on El Museo del Barrio, it was founded in 1969 by artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz with the support of a group of Puerto Rican educators, artists, parents and community activists in East Harlem’s Spanish-speaking El Barrio. Since then, El Museo del Barrio has evolved into New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, having expanded its mission to represent the diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and Latin America and today, it is the only museum in New York City that specializes in representing these cultures.
