ABOUT US
Centro Romero, under the mentorship of Abigail Winograd and Peter Fitzpatrick, is fostering the development of a community-led art gallery, Pueblo Unido Gallery (PUG). PUG is not just a gallery, it's a collective effort, an expression of our community's creativity and vision. PUG is an offshoot of the Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the Macarthur Fellows Program at 40 Projects, which was held in Chicago in 2021.
MEET THE PUG TEAM
Abigail Winograd
Gallery Director /
Chief Curator
Gallery Director /
Chief Curator
Co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennial featuring Jeffrey Gibson, the first ever indigenous American artist featured, Winograd has held positions at the Frans Hals Museum in the Netherlands, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, D.C., the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Peter Fitzpatrick
Gallery Director /
Education
Gallery Director /
Education
Special Advisor for Community Engagement and a Professor in Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Fitzpatrick has been involved in developing the teaching and research programs at the Australian National University, the Australian Centre for Photography and Columbia College Chicago. Fitzpatrick has a Master of Fine Arts Research at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Isabella
Assistant Curator
Assistant Curator
Isabella Aguilar is an emerging curator and Teen Leadership Coordinator at Centro Romero. She recently co-curated Asco: A Call to Response - Acts of Protest from L.A to Chicago, an exhibition that brought together seven contemporary Chicanx artists in dialogue with the work of art group Asco. Isabella holds a B.A in Art History at Occidental College in Northeast Los Angeles.
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MEET THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
DIANE DAMMEYER INITIATIVE TEAM
The Columbia College Chicago Diane Dammeyer Initiative Assistants, in partnership with the Centro Romero Program, conduct visual art workshops for community youth memebers year-round.
Sienna Rowe
Avery Perkins
Rachel Manlubatan
Nathan Bieneman
THESE ARE OUR SUPPORTERS
Website designed by Columbia College Chicago students from Sarah Faust's Design Practicum Course; Kate Tierney, Marden Pinzon, Phoebe Pope, and Samantha Aguilar.