PHOTO COURTESY OF CUBAN HERITAGE COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
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Padrón Campus To Host Josefina Tarafa Exhibition

Nikole Valiente , 

The art gallery at Eduardo J. Padrón Campus, 627 S.W. 27th Ave, is hosting the Remaking Miami: Josefina Tarafa’s Photographs of the 1970s showcase in Room 3113 from Sept. 18 through Dec. 13. 

Featured are 30 posthumous prints of the late Cuban photographer, editor and philanthropist Josefina Tarafa, depicting how the influx of Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro’s dictatorship changed Miami’s cultural landscape in the 1970s.

The gallery is open Monday through Wednesday and the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s  free and open to the community.

For more information, contact Jennifer Weinberg at jweinbe1@mdc.edu. 

Nikole Valiente

Nikole Valiente, 21, is a mass communication/journalism major at North Campus. Valiente, who graduated from City of Hialeah Educational Academy in 2022, will serve as managing editor for The Reporter during the 2024-25 school year. She was the paper's editor-in-chief last year and aspires to work as a journalist.

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