Current Exhibition: STRONGER TOGETHER

Edwin G Cadiz: Bio
Edwin G. Cadiz holds a Masters in Science of Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine
Arts. His colorful canvases, collage and provocative designs grace many community spaces,
libraries, offices and private homes. Cadiz has exhibited his work here in New York City and
Latin America; bridging the gap of cultural experiences that is not only his birthright, as a Puerto
Rican, but also the inspiration for his work. His well organized collage work and bright images
capture not only his cultural heritage, but his unique vision that, like a prism, creates a spectrum
of colors. Thematic aspects of his work promote the tension created between historic reference
points and imagery that guides the viewer to his use of hands and faces integrating the resolve
of humanity’s struggle for peace and harmony. He has produced over 50 collage pieces on
Black History as one of his more popular subjects. As a multimedia visual artist he has
undertaken many different ways to explore methods and materials including his pioneering
work in the 1970’s with the creation of pieces using photoceramics that were exhibited in Latin
America. He also was part of a team of students teaching silkscreen technique in the Dutch
Antilles. Closer to home, in 2000, Cadiz designed one of the cows, called “Tropicow” for the
New York City CowParade exhibition. He also designed a “Tropidog” for the Art Unleashed in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Cadiz received his early art training at Henry Street Settlement House where he was taught
photography, community mural making and ceramics. Most notably there are mosaic
sculptures, he was a part of designing as a youth at Henry Street Settlement, that can still be
viewed in the Lower East Side and at Grant’s Tomb. Years later, he produced many murals with
students of Louis Armstrong Middle School, and worked with youth to create a mural at the
People’s Headstart Program in Long Island City. He also taught art at the Children’s Art
Carnival; the Greek American Institute and the College for Children Program at both Queens
College and Laguardia Community College. Over the years, he has continued to reemerge with
his art through special commissions to produce art for public spaces, residential treatment
settings and new housing developments.

Élan Cadiz: Artist Statement
Élan Cadiz an interdisciplinary, multi ethnic, multi racial, North American, native New Yorker, and
Visual Artist that deconstructs and balances her intersectionality through her projects. Élan’s art
and practice are grounded in the documentation of her personal narrative through the use of
portraiture, domestic and historical imagery.

Cadiz’s artworks explore the ways societal and personal histories overlap and affect individual
relationships, power dynamics and identity.

The materials she works with are influenced by the subjects she discuss which is why she
moves masterly through mediums, collaging the best materials to convey her visual language.

Élan Cadiz’s intention is to speak to the boundless potential in humanity despite impediments
and ways our pasts can inform our future for the better. Her goal is to have viewers question
their condition(s) in ways that bring about helpful inner inquiry and thoughtful discussion.

Élan Cadiz: Bio
Élan’s formal training began in the High School of Art & Design. After graduation she was
accepted to the Fashion Institute of Technology where she studied Advertisement and Design
and Photography for two years. Cadiz graduated from City College of New York City with a BA
in Studio Art and Education in 2008. Elan received her Masters in Fine Art from the School of
Visual Arts May 2018 and received the Martha Trevor Award/ Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship,
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and the School of Visual Arts Merit Scholarship.

She’s instructed young people in the arts for 25 years and taught for or was in collaboration with
programs/institutions such as the Harlem School of the Arts, Thurgood Marshall Upper and
Lower Academies, Harlem Children Zone, No Longer Empty, Cool Culture, Bank Street College,
Weeksville Heritage Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Historical Society, Center
for Arts Education, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Boys Club of New York
City, Foster Pride, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum
of Art and Storytelling, Bridgehampton Museum and more.

Dr. Sharon M. Cadiz: Artist Statement
Dr. Cadiz is an educator, writer and national speaker with a record of professional engagement that spans four decades. She is a fierce advocate for social justice and human rights, as well a recognized authority on interpersonal trauma and its impact as a root cause of many issues such as substance use disorder; mental illness; suicidality; intimate partner violence and child abuse. Dr. Cadiz is a published author and former Director of Best Practice Implementation for Reality House; a community based treatment program for individuals struggling with issues of addiction, mental health and interpersonal trauma. She is also the CEO of 747 Seminars which focuses on promoting projects and initiatives devoted to personal development, wellness and holistic life management. Her poetry, informed by her work and life experience, embodies a sense of transcendent connection that honors the nobility of the human spirit and its capacity to endure and prevail.