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Esperanza Martel’s intergenerational ceramics show at Boricua College highlights ritual, community and found objects

Open (BronxNet) · April 10, 2026
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Educator and artist Esperanza Martel curated an intergenerational exhibition at Boricua College that centers earth-based materials, migration histories and community ritual. The show includes work from teens to elders and closes with an artist talk on April 23.

Esperanza Martel, an educator, human rights activist and artist, is showing a multi-artist, intergenerational exhibition at Boricua College that centers decolonial practices, spirituality and earth-based ceramics. Martel described the exhibition as honoring working-class migrant women and using art as ritual, therapy and community education.

Martel said she first learned clay work young through community programs, noting the Police Athletic League as an early influence that…

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