Imago screening on the arts in Cuba

The Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) Film Club will feature a screening of “Dialogues with Artists in Cuba,” a video produced in Havana, Cuba in 2002 by IFA Exhibiting Artist Duff Schweninger and artist Conrad Gleber
The free event will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12 at Imago Gallery, 36 Market Street in Warren.

Following the 53-minute screening, Schweninger and Gleber will lead a then-and-now discussion about the current state of the arts in Cuba with Abel Barroso, a contemporary Cuban artist, sculptor, and master printmaker who is one of the artists featured in the film. Barroso will be participating via zoom. All are invited to this free event but be advised there is a small amount of adult content that was included in the documentation of the artwork provided by the artists featured in the film.

Schweninger and Conrad Gleber met in 2001 and decided to go to Cuba to work with fellow artists living there to make the video about the state of the arts in Cuba at that time. Gleber contacted a Cuban artist Abel Barroso, who he had met at Florida State University. Barroso agreed to introduce them to a group of his fellow artists who became part of the film. Besides Barroso, artists in the film included the artist group ENEMA, Sandra Ramos, Group 609 and Fernando Rodriguez.