The ballet school at Cuba’s National Art Schools, known today as the Instituto Superior de Arte. Courtesy of Dorothea Trufelman Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large ...

After the 1959 end of Fidel Castro’s revolution, which emphasized popular access to the arts ... change Cuba.) A student poses with her little sister outside the National Ballet School.

Conceived more than five decades ago by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to bring arts education to the world’s underprivileged, Cuba’s National Art Schools lie on the edge of Havana, a stunning ...

Cuban National Ballet School Founder and Director Ramona de Saa and Catherine Conley at a recent Ruth Page Center Gala. Conley will train under Ramona de Saa in Havana, Cuba beginning in September.

The Cuban National Schools of Arts ... Porro took a different approach with the design of the School of Plastic Arts, which was inspired by the nation’s Cuban-African heritage and assumes ...

Ricardo Porro, the leading architect behind Cuba’s National Art Schools - one of the largest ... “I wanted to create in that school the expression of revolution. What I felt at that moment ...

Cuban painter of Chinese descent Flora Fong ... Fong was granted a scholarship to study at the National School of Arts in Havana in the late 1960s. She has garnered several awards and recognitions ...

Seeking to make the arts accessible to all in Cuba ... troupe and school in Havana. She and Fernando Alonso had a daughter, Laura Alonso, who became a dancer and teacher with the National Ballet.