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Latino artists across the United States take center stage in Visiones: Latino Art and Culture, a groundbreaking six-part television series. Viewers experience the world of Latino artistic expression as the series journeys throughout the country, capturing rich stories about theater, music, dance, spoken word and the visual arts. From New York Citys hip-hop culture to mural painters in Los Angeles and Chicago to theater in Texas, the series offers a unique cross-section of Latino artists working today. Visiones: Latino Art and Culture is the first PBS series to focus exclusively on Latino artistic expression in the United States. Through storytelling and vivid imagery, the fast-paced and entertaining series leads the viewer to understand the origins of Latino art and culture. It also depicts the struggles and victories of the artists as part of their artistic interpretation. Additionally, it examines the nations diverse Latino communities and how they were able to keep their artistic expressions alive while creating new and unique visions that contribute to art in America. The series incorporates extraordinary archive material to give historical depth to the ongoing work created by a new generation of Latino artists. Each episode presents six to seven stories designed to electrify viewers with their sheer creative energy. Independent Latino producers based in cities throughout the country contributed story-driven segments, bringing a fresh, innovative film style that captures todays Latino art scene. Visiones is about awareness, about acknowledging the pivotal role Latino artistic expression has played and continues to play in shaping the U.S. cultural landscape, comments series executive producer and director Hector Galn. The six episodes cover topics and artists such as the Latino Mural Movement of the 1960s, Nuyorican spoken word, Miriam Colon and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Company (PRTT) of New York, the Santero art tradition of New Mexico, Luis Valdez and the legendary Teatro Campesino, performance artists, Latino hip hop dance and culture, the variety of music styles in Miami, Latino poetry, dancer Rudy Perez, the first Mexican-American Prima Ballerina Evelyn Cisneros and much, much more. Watch it on Channel 5.
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