A Revolutionary Artist: Part 2

This is part 2 of our conversation with artist, revolutionary and Young Lord, Carlito Rovira.

Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to listen to part 2, as broadcast yesterday on Arts Express, heard on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.

You can find part 1 here:

A Painter of Revolutionaries

Carlito Rovira with his portrait of Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón

What makes a person become an artist? Are they born or are they made? And what is the purpose of art? Our guest yesterday has very definite views about these and other questions, and I was happy to be talking with a man whose portraits are filled with meaning, artist, revolutionary and member of the Young Lords, Carlos “Carlito” Rovira.

Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear the interview with Carlito, as broadcast on Arts Express radio yesterday on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.

And you can find Part 2 here: