LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, La Casita Center’s 2024 Afloramos art exhibit is on display at the Muhammad Ali Center. La Casita Center offers several services for the Latinx and Hispanic community of Louisville.

What You Need To Know

  •  La Casita Center had its Afloramos exhibit on display at the Muhammad Ali Center

  •  The art exhibit celebrates Latinx and Hispanic culture

  • Sebastian Duverge, a Dominican-American artist, has a couple of art pieces on display that reflect his life in Queens, New York, where he was born, and in Louisville, where he grew up

Afloramos showcases artwork from Latinx and Hispanic artists. The point is to show the community’s beauty and culture through art.

Dozens of people were at the Muhammad Ali Center on Sunday, Oct. 13, for an event to celebrate the Afloramos exhibit. (Spectrum News 1/Geraldine Torrellas)

“The exhibit is about our identities and how we’re not really a big clump, a homogeneous group,” said Ada Asenjo, the exhibit’s curator. “We are so diverse within and then we also are within this bigger society that we kind of have to… compromise with.”

Sebastian Duverge, whose mother, Sandra, is from the Dominican Republic, has two pieces on display at the Muhammad Ali Center for the Afloramos exhibit. They are watercolor paper mosaics that tell his story of being born in Queens, New York and then living in Louisville.

“He actually, you know, kind of does a sketch of the piece and then he goes on to color the paper and then cut it into the pieces to make the art,” Sandra said.

The exhibit will be at the Muhammad Ali Center temporarily and will then be returned to La Casita Center.

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