Miami Dade College (MDC) and its Museum of Art + Design (MDC MA+D) will dedicate Enrique Martínez Celaya’s The Tower of Snow this Friday, October 19, just outside MDC’s Freedom Tower, on the corner of Sixth Street & Biscayne Blvd.

A large-scale bronze sculpture created by distinguished Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Tower of Snow honors the 50th anniversary of Operation Pedro Pan, which brought thousands of Cuban children, without their parents, to the United States in pursuit of freedom and stability.

“For years, feelings of displacement and foreignness had seemed specific to my experience, then I began to read about the ‘Operación Pedro Pan’ and I found my story in many of their accounts. This recognition brought along a new sense of belonging to a group larger than myself, a group whose longing did not fit in any one heart,” said Martínez Celaya.

The Tower of Snow will be placed in a small park across from the Freedom Tower and will face the port of Miami, where it will remind all of the struggles of past generations and will welcome the new, younger generations full of hope and optimism.  

(Via: www.mdc.edu)

We will be presenting a solo exhibition of works by Enrique Martínez Celaya “The Hunt’s Will,” which opens at L.A. Louver on 17 November 2012.

Image: Tower of Snow installed at Miami Dade College, via thecubanartproject.com