Programa de Navidad 1977 [screen print poster]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: AC0615-0000006.tif (AC Scan)

1997.3100.08 (Museum Cat. No.)
label: Exhibitions
content: In the exhibition "Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1948-1989," Sept. 17, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009, at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center.
name: label: Artist
content: Contreras, Jose Melendez
label: Sponsor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
label: Donor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
label: Collection Donor
content: Archivo General de Puerto Rico
place: label: Place
content: Puerto Rico -- 20th century
topic: label: Topic
content: Musicians
label: Topic
content: Christmas
label: Topic
content: Politics -- Puerto Rico
creator: label: Artist
content: Contreras, Jose Melendez
label: Sponsor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
label: Donor
content: Puerto Rico. Division of Community Education. Department of Education
setName: label: See more items in
content: Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection
label: See more items in
content: Puerto Rico Division of Community Education [DIVEDCO] Poster Collection / Series 1: Events / 1.1: Holidays
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Poster (Ink on paper., 68.3 x 47.7 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977
container: label: Container
content: Map-folder 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Screen prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Posters -- Puerto Rico
label: Genre/Form
content: Screen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Jose Melendez Contreras began his career in the DIVEDCO workshop in 1952 and worked there as a graphic artist for posters and as a book illustrator until 1977. This is one of the last posters he made for DIVEDCO. A master of angular compositions, in this Christmas poster he shows a close-up of a musician singing and playing a traditional guiro with typical island architecture and mountains behind him. (From exhibition text by Marvette Perez.)