Annie Y. Saldaña

Artist – Art Administrator – Curator – Educator

After 4 weeks of training along amazing artists and arts admins, I am now a Certified “Business of Art” Facilitator, an entrepreneurial program for artists designed by the Center for Cultural Innovation. For inquires on the next session, please email me at: asaldanaphoitography@gmail.com

Presented “The village of leaders and the importante of diverse collaborators”, a workshop that co-relates leadership stages with the 4 seasons, in the convention of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, Universidad Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR, May 2024.

  • AAM Scholars 2024
  • Connecting with AAM Board of Directors
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  • Latinx Museum Professionals Luncheon

Participated as selected scholar in the American Alliance of Museums Convention, Baltimore MD, May 2024.

Participated as panelist in the annual convention of the Art Administrators of Color Network in Chicago, November 2023. The session, “Redefining Leadership: A Candid Conversation with LoCF participants” focused on discussing participation in the 2022-23 National Leader of Color program, perspectives in advocacy, project finance, DEIA practice, and what it means to lead with care.

The first Puerto Rican to be selected as Mentee in the Museums Association UK program “Mentoring for All“, a cohort mentoring program focused on supporting mentees from all backgrounds, disciplines and career stages to develop confidence, competence and connections within the museum sector.

Selected as Fellow for the National Leaders of Color Fellowship 2022-2023. Special thanks for Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for the regional support and WESTAF for making this national program happen.
“Casitas” was exhibited at the Latin American Foto Festival at the Bronx Documentary Center. July, 2022.

At the entrance of “Casitas”, solo exhibition at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture. Chicago, IL 2021.

Curator Annie Y. Saldaña along Natasha Middagh‘s work at her latest curatorial project
HILO: Textil en el Arte Contemporáneo at Galería de Arte del Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez. Mayaguez, PR January 2020.
Exhibiting Casitas at Kendall Art Center, Art Basel 2019.
Casitas is a documentary photography project that focuses on five families living in wooden houses in various rural communities in Puerto Rico. This project is supported by NALAC’s Fund for the Arts Puerto Rico Artists Grant. Miami, FL 2019.

Annie Y. Saldaña, founder of Prisma Art Projects, discusses leadership styles at NALAC’s Leadership Institute – San Antonio, Texas 2019

Leadership Institute Cohort #19 at NALAC‘s Casita.
San Antonio, Texas 2019
Participating in Fábricas Culturales, the Instituto de Cultura & Inversión Cultural entrepreneurship program for creative industries
San Juan, PR 2019

“Shifted Realities” exhibited in Bienal Sala FAR at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico – San Juan, PR October 2018

Gallery View of Shifted Realities
Solo exhibition at Sala de Exhibiciones at Fundación Angel Ramos – San Juan, PR April 2018
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At Jaques printshop participating from AS220’s Practice//Practice printing workshop.
Photo by Erick Iñiguez – Providence, Rhode Island 2018
Cohort #6 of AS220‘s Practice//Practice – Professional Dev. Program for Art Administrators, Rhode Island, USA 2018
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Inside Declared Void (2005) by Carey Young
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Visiting a booth at Mercado Caribeño (MECA) Art Fair (1st edition, 2017)
Insight Exhibition at Arévalo Fine Art Miami, 2011
Shifted Realities at ArteAméricas The Latin American Art Fair, 2011
Solo booth was granted to one student a year to represent Miami International University of Art & Design MFA Graduate Program.