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Los Mamoncillos Artistic Community
Year of foundation : 1987
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Artists and craftsmen
of the Artistic Community
Enrique Aguilar Paez /ceramist
Rosa Maria Dorta Hernandez /ceramist
Jordanka Aguilar Dorta /ceramist
Enrique Aguilar Dorta /ceramist
Members of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Jorgue Luis Pouyu /painter
Member of the Cuban National Union of
Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
Renilde Rivas Ramos /painter, sculptor
(died in 2010)
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Rolando Puello /ceramist
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Wilfredo Fernandez Gonzalez /sculptor, painter
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba
Member of the Cuban National Union of
Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
Geneviève Forest /sculptor
Canadian - guest artist
Daniel Mearson Zafra Pérez /painter
(lives in Canada)
René Lopez Bermudez "Renelo" /painter
(died in 2016)
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Oscar Bayola Lopez /paintor, draftsman
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Reynaldo Cuellar Miranda /sculptor, ceramist
Member of the Provincial Council of Fine Arts
in Santiago de Cuba.
Ifrahin Uriarte Castellanos /sculptor
Professor of sculpture at the Academia
de Artes Plásticas - José Joaquín Tejada -
Santiago de Cuba.
Alberto Lescay /sculptor, painter
Member of the Cuban National Union of
Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
Berto Luis Ruano Ortega /painter
Member of the Cuban National Union of
Writers and Artists (UNEAC).
 Between the sea and the mountainsThe Artistic Community Los Mamoncillos was born in 1987 of a utopian ideal, to allow the artists who live there to create in and idyllic context... Beaches, mountains, fishing, nature, silence. |  Two hundred year old MamoncillosTo be an artist of the Artistic Community at the moment of its foundation was to live without the contraints of daily life... Transportation, a roof over one’s head, a workshop, electricity... Everything was supplied by the State. |
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 One house = One universeCommunity living was sharing, helping each other, uniting, etc. The fall and breaking up of the Soviet Union confronted everyone with a cruel reality: selling one’s worsk of art or going without food… and stop creating. |  Midday in MarchThe Government has incorporated the artists and artisans into the tourist circuits… The majority has travelled extensively. |
 Work but few meansOver time, the Community has experienced highs and lows, the throes of creativity of the Special Period, the economic reorganization at the turn of the second millenium, hurricane Sandy… |  Nothing goes to wasteToday, artists and artisans deal with economic difficulties brought on by the world crisis that seems only to worsen. |
 The willingness to grow…Like all Cubans, the artits and artisans who still live in the Community hope that their Cuban reality will change for the better with positive changes in the relationship with the United States. |  Cold war relicsAn old Russian missile container converted into a water tank to supply water for mixing cement in the construction of the workshop where the monumental sculpture will take place and for the preparation of the clay to be used in the sculpture. Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed! |
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