Save the Date | Artists Reception
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
5:30-7pm
Un Cafecito?
Greca Exhibit and Café Recuerdos
Earlier this summer, RILA invited Latinx artists to transform this familiar household object—also known as a cafetera moka, Moka pot, or stovetop coffee maker—into an original work of art.
We now invite you to see the works selected through this juried call, presented in conjunction with our Café Recuerdos art installation. Each artist has approached the greca differently, drawing inspiration from culture, identity, family, memory, migration, community, or their own relationship with coffee and the greca itself.
Stop in and check out 19 different designs at our Galería in Providence. They will remain on view through October 31, 2026.
We now invite you to see the works selected through this juried call, presented in conjunction with our Café Recuerdos art installation. Each artist has approached the greca differently, drawing inspiration from culture, identity, family, memory, migration, community, or their own relationship with coffee and the greca itself.
Stop in and check out 19 different designs at our Galería in Providence. They will remain on view through October 31, 2026.
La Galería del Barrio at the Southside Cultural Center
393 Broad Street, Providence, RI 02907
You and your family
can contribute to the exhibition
During the run of the exhibition, RILA will host family-friendly Story Collage gatherings. Adults are invited to bring a photocopy of a photograph—please do not bring the original—of a relative or loved one they would like to remember. Using wheat paste, participants will add the photograph to a Café Bustelo coffee can supplied by RILA, then look through magazines for words and images that recall that person: favorite foods, familiar sayings, special memories, personality, homeland, or other meaningful details.
We will provide the coffee cans, wheat paste, magazines, and other materials, although magazine donations are welcome. While adults create their Story Collages, little hands can color greca line art with markers and crayons.
To accompany your Story Collage, we will invite you to write a short memory of that person and place it inside the coffee can. Together, the cans and the memories they hold will become a community installation displayed in the gallery on November 1 and 2 as part of RILA’s Día de los Muertos celebration.
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 25, 2026 from 1:00-3:00pm
We will provide the coffee cans, wheat paste, magazines, and other materials, although magazine donations are welcome. While adults create their Story Collages, little hands can color greca line art with markers and crayons.
To accompany your Story Collage, we will invite you to write a short memory of that person and place it inside the coffee can. Together, the cans and the memories they hold will become a community installation displayed in the gallery on November 1 and 2 as part of RILA’s Día de los Muertos celebration.
DATE & TIME: Sunday, October 25, 2026 from 1:00-3:00pm
Address: 393 Broad Street | Providence, RI 02907
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-3pm
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