BOARD
Working as a team multiplies results
Andreína Fuentes Angarita
DIRECTOR
Founder of Arts Connection Foundation (2006), she is an artist, collector, writer, and an international creative advisor with her Creative Mindset Practice.
She also is the creator and founder of Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (2003-2013), Arts Connection Foundation ( 2006-present), The Inclusive Way (2016-present), online newspaper The Wynwood Times ( 2014-present ), and The Chill Concept Pop up Museum ( 2013-present). Due to Andreina’s professional background in Law, Business, and Museology, she embraces several ways of contemporary art practices including new media and technology.
As a gallerist and a museum specialist she had participated since 2004 in over 80 international art fairs as: Art Miami, Arte Americas Miami, Scope (New York, Miami and Basel), Context Miami, Bridge London, Pinta Art Fair ( New York, London and Miami) , Art Shanghai, LINK Hong Kong, Platform LA, Art Wynwood, FIA Caracas, BARCU, among many others.
Curator since 1999, Nina has managed more than 100 exhibits including the creation of the methodology for The Chill Concept pop up Museum. She focus her curating contemporary art based on creating exhibitions as a platform for social activism and education in human rights, citizenship, environmental issues, creative thinking, and community engagement.
Andreina Fuentes Angarita began collecting Contemporary Art in 1996. Fuentes Angarita Collection has more than 1.000 works of conceptual art in different formats such as video, performances, installations, photography among others, with political and gender content.
Fuentes is knowns as a documentalist photographer who focus on identity issues, well-being, and activism.
MARÍA NÁPOLES
DIRECTOR
For more than twenty-two years, María Nápoles has developed a sustained career in the field of visual arts. She began her professional path in 2004 as Executive Assistant to Diego Costa Peuser at Arte al Día Internacional magazine, based in Miami. This experience allowed her to integrate early into the editorial and commercial circuits of Latin American art.
In 2008 she assumed the position of Executive Director of Arteaméricas, a role she held until 2012, actively participating in the articulation between galleries, artists, collectors, and cultural institutions connected to contemporary Latin American art.
Building on the knowledge accumulated through years of close work with the art sector — combined with solid experience in sales — she oriented her work toward identifying and promoting new Latin American artists. In 2013 she founded her own platform in Miami, Latin American Art Pavilion (LAAP), conceived as a space for exhibition, cultural management, and international projection for creators from the region.
Through Latin American Art Pavilion, María Nápoles has developed a model of commissioned exhibitions, cultural agreements, and collaborations with various international art fairs. These initiatives have contributed to expanding the visibility of contemporary Latin American art, as well as sparking the interest of collectors and institutions in new artistic proposals from the region.
At the same time, she has provided advisory services to entrepreneurs and cultural managers interested in entering the visual arts market in South Florida, sharing her experience in positioning strategies, circulation of artworks, and engagement with the local artistic ecosystem.
Currently, María Nápoles serves as director of Latin American Art Pavilion (LAAP), from where she continues to promote exhibition projects, international collaborations, and platforms of visibility for Latin American artists.
MILAGROS GONZÁLEZ
DIRECTOR
Milagros Gonzalez is a Museologist and Historian who graduated in1999 . She worked as a curator and researcher at Caracas Fine Arts Museum and National Art Gallery, Venezuela, between 1998 and 2009. Then, Gonzalez worked in several art exhibitions, coordinated research for books and catalogs and studied the origins of Caracas museums. In 2007 she published a book, “De la Colección a la Nación. Aventuras de los intelectuales en los Museos de Caracas. 1874-1940” (From Collection to Nation. Adventures of Venezuelan intellectuals in the museums of Caracas. 1874-1940), published by Polar Foundation, Caracas, in 2007.
Based in Miami since 2009, in 2010 she was invited as a speaker at “Crossroads. II International Congress of Sculpture”, Institute of Aesthetic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Puebla, where she shared her research on bronze monuments in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century.
Since 2014 she works as Research Coordinator for IAM Venezuela (Institutional Assets and Monuments from Venezuela), and since 2017 at IAMonuments (Institutional Assets and Monuments).
GERARDO ZAVARCE
ADVISOR
Curator and researcher. He has a degree in Arts from the Central University of Venezuela (2000). He has worked as an independent researcher, promoter, and advisor in the cultural and visual arts field. He has taught at the Central University of Venezuela and the Experimental University of Yaracuy.
He has participated as an organizer and as speaker in national and international events, among which are: Seminario de Arte Emergente (Mendoza, Argentina, 2004); 1er Encuentro Iberoamericano de Espacios Culturales Alternativos (Caracas, 2006); International Seinar «La Autonomía Reformulada» (Caracas, 2006); XII Simposio Internacional Historia y Crítica de Arte (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2017).
Between 2006 and 2009, he collaborated as a critic in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. Since 2007, he is co-curator at the gallery El Anexo Arte Contemporáneo (Caracas). He currently lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.