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This edition: Diasporican Art in Motion: María Domínguez & Lee Quiñones

Episode Details

Original tape date: November 24, 2025. First aired: January 26, 2026.

A panel of producers and archivists from The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at CUNY's Hunter College discuss their Diasporican Art in Motion docuseries, which profiles a number of Puerto Rican artists from different backgrounds, who work in a variety of mediums. We then hear from two of the featured artists.

Muralist María Domínguez discusses her upbringing in Loisaida, where art
became her outlet for activism. Then we learn how Lee Quiñones, a pioneer of urban art, who is also from Loisaida, has evolved his practice from subway trains to museum walls.
Lee Quiñones' YouTube video link: youtu.be/aV-g7f8IirM

Guest List

Maria Dominguez Artist

Carlos Rivera Fernández Media Producer, CENTRO

Glorimar Garcia Art Researcher, CENTRO

Lee Quiñones Artist

Ángel Antonio Ruiz Laboy Director of Arts and Culture, CENTRO

  • About this series

  • Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. CENTRO provides support to students, scholars, artists, and members of the community at large across and beyond New York. CENTRO produces original research, films, books, and educational tools and are the home of The Centro Journal—the premiere academic journal of Puerto Rican Studies. CENTRO's aim is to create actionable and accessible scholarship to strengthen, broaden, and reimagine the field of Puerto Rican studies.

  • Regular air times

  • Monday - Thursday 10am

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