LIBERTAD O. GUERRA
Libertad O. Guerra is an anthropologist, curator, and cultural organizer / producer with vast arts management experience specializing in startup phase and strategic turnaround of community-based cultural organizations with an intersectional approach. She has led the creation of incubation NYC spaces and collectives of Latinx/ POC cultural production, organizing, education, and environmental justice activism. Her academic research/symposia has focused on Puerto Rican, Latinx, and NYC’s social-artistic movements and aesthetic politics of place in im/migrant urban settings.
Several of her exhibitions have been featured in Art Net best exhibitions of the year, and listed by the New York Times list of 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side. In 2020 she became the Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center in downtown Manhattan which has seen an exponential growth since 2020, and was awarded the Mellon’s Foundation grant for New Director’s Vision, as well as other community, arts, and public humanities recognitions and awards.
Guerra is a co-founder of the South Bronx Unite environmental justice coalition, serves as a member of the Mott Haven / Port Morris Community Land Stewards board, and most recently co-founded the LxNY/ Latinx Arts Consortium of New York network of 30 plus arts organizations, and Shape of Cities to Come Institute certificate and peership program in partnership with the Urban Ecologies department of the New School for Social Research. She holds a certificate from the DeVos Institute Global Arts Management Fellowship (2019-22), an M.A. from Université Laval, Quèbec, a second M.A. from New York University.
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Several of her exhibitions have been featured in Art Net best exhibitions of the year, and listed by the New York Times list of 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side. In 2020 she became the Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center in downtown Manhattan which has seen an exponential growth since 2020, and was awarded the Mellon’s Foundation grant for New Director’s Vision, as well as other community, arts, and public humanities recognitions and awards.
Guerra is a co-founder of the South Bronx Unite environmental justice coalition, serves as a member of the Mott Haven / Port Morris Community Land Stewards board, and most recently co-founded the LxNY/ Latinx Arts Consortium of New York network of 30 plus arts organizations, and Shape of Cities to Come Institute certificate and peership program in partnership with the Urban Ecologies department of the New School for Social Research. She holds a certificate from the DeVos Institute Global Arts Management Fellowship (2019-22), an M.A. from Université Laval, Quèbec, a second M.A. from New York University.
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