This semester’s first monthly “Dinner for Ten”-- in which impressive individuals with an interesting careers join us for dinner and conversation in my faculty apartment, 100 McKean.  

This month two people will be joining us—a Penn Art Historian, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw AND a contemporary Cuban visual artist, Roger Toledo Bueno.  Mr. Toledo Bueno will be discussing his work as a visual artist and as a professor of art, and his life in Cuba with all of us.  Please see bios below for more information:

Roger Toledo Bueno was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and now lives and works in Havana, Cuba. Roger graduated from The University of Fine Arts (ISA) in Havana where he is currently a professor. His most recent achievement was a show at the Arts Museum of the Americas (AMA) in DC, a group exhibition of young Cuban artists named Art(xiomas) CubaAhora: the next generation.  His work explores technique and color in original and beautiful ways. 

 Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw is an art historian, curator, and professor of American Art at Penn.    She has curated major exhibitions and published several books on African American art. She is also affiliated faculty in Africana Studies, Cinema Studies, and Women and Gender Studies.