Historias is a curatorial framework and collective methodology for reimagining how Latinx cultural memory is built and shared in New York City. Conceived and led by The Clemente and co-presented with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York (LxNY) , the initiative treats cultural work as civic labor. It activates both digital and physical space to surface stories long buried, dispersed, or sidelined by structural absence.

Blending artistic commissions, oral histories, public rituals, and interdisciplinary research, Historias generates a shared infrastructure for Latinx storytelling.

Programs like the Nueva York Chronicles (NY.C), a living digital chronotope, and CRUCES, a recurring forum for public scholarship, are not simply outputs -they are tools for memory justice. Other series such as Domino Table Talks and Remesas y Sobremesa translate vernacular practice into intergenerational record, turning play, food, and ritual into archival form.

At the heart of Historias is an ambitious program of artist Commissions layered across its evolution; seeding research, shaping public memory, and surfacing histories, with public components unfolding throughout the initiative.

Rather than treating Latinx history as additive to the city’s narrative, Historias re-centers it as foundational by building platforms that span disciplines, generations, and geographies.

With over 44 activations and 200+ collaborators in its first phase alone, Historias rather than a retrospective, is an open structure for future-making, rooted in equity, narrative agency, and collective authorship.

The initiative was launched with lead support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.