“Regala Arte”: Virtual Auction at MAPR (Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico)
In his article reporting that the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico [Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR)] will receive major funding ($3.6 million) the Ford Foundation, Francisco Javier Díaz (
El Nuevo Día) also focused on another effort to raise funds for this renowned Caribbean museum. The virtual auction “Regala Arte” is still open until December 15.
Díaz writes:
[. . .] “During the past three years we have been knocking on the doors of the different foundations in the United States and in Puerto Rico, in order to diversify the funds that come to the institution and these from the Ford Foundation are an example of the work,” added [Marta Mabel Pérez] executive director of the MAPR, who has been in this position for three years. “In addition to that, at MAPR we receive funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All these scholarships are given to extremely important museums such as the Louvre, MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To this must be added the funds we have received from the Karen Chappell Foundation, the Flamboyán Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.”