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Library System's profile and role in the community, particularly in the arts. In 1970 Cano started working at the newly created Art Services Department, where she would organize lectures and art exhibitions, throughout the library system. These activities were designed to use the Public Library System to help meet the growing needs of the South Florida art community and supplant the lack of art institutions, particularly for minority communities such as Latin American and African American art markets.
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Florida. It was Cano who first proposed the idea for the exhibition and would then serve as Project Director of the Exhibition's Program Committee. The exhibition was curated by Giulio V. Blanc and feature nine prominent emerging Cuban artist:
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environmental work and featured drawing of the concept as well as the renowned pink fabric used, which would be ultimately donated to the
Library System's Vasari Project archives that Cano co-founded. Cano was also involved in the development of the main art project itself and helped the artists test
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October 17, 1962, the Cano family was able to secure safe passage out of Cuba and arrived in Miami where they joined the growing Cuban exile community there. The following year Cano began working at the City of Miami Public Library System. Over the next thirty years she would play a public role in
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English and Spanish and also learning French. Cano graduated in 1949 and subsequently enrolled in the University of Havana, earning her doctorate in physics and chemistry in 1953. That same year, at the age of 21, Cano worked on the Cuban television program
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exhibition of 1983, among Miami's most significant and high-profile art events of the 1980s. The show would be the first major art exhibition dedicated to showcasing the first generation of Cuban artists who had been born in Cuba but educated outside of Cuba, and was becoming increasingly visible in
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and Center for the Fine Arts, and former Head of
Community Relations for the Miami-Dade Public Library System. She was a significant contributor to the development of the Latin American art market of South Florida as a leading figure in the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County public library systems.
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University of Miami. In that period Miami was a mid-sized city with more affordable commodities than the more metropolitan Havana. She would also frequently visit New York
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February 27, 1932, to Margarita Villa Urrutia Suarez and Rafael Antonio Maria Fernandez Ruenes. She was the second of their two children, following her brother Rafael, who was born five years previously. Her father was an architect and held master's degrees in physics and chemistry. He became a
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Library System, Cano launched the system's permanent art collection of original prints and art works that were displayed throughout the system's libraries. It would grow to over 7,000 works by more than 2,000 artists, spanning from local Miami artists to
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In addition to her career as a curator, Cano painted since the age of five in Cuba and was self-taught. Her style often incorporated
Byzantine-inspired religious imagery, as well as elements from whimsical medieval fairy tales and illuminated manuscripts. Cano often produced detailed mixed media
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She married Pablo Benigno Cano Diago, an agricultural engineer, in 1956. He was also active as a musician and played electric guitar and bass alongside high-profile figures visiting Havana including Liberace, Maurice Chevalier, Roberta Flack, Sarah Vaughan, as well as jazz musicians. In 1959 the
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In addition to her recognitions, Cano was also interviewed by researchers regarding her contributions and recollections across a range of topics including: The Cuban Revolution, the Cuban exile experience, the development of the Miami-Dade County Public Library System's art programs, and the
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Cano's mother died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism when Cano was in her twenties and employed in an industrial chemical lab in Havana. Following her mother's death, a close relative was appointed by the Castro government as director of the National Library and Margarita became her personal
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assistant. During this period the National Library was a central element of Castro's campaign to increase literacy in rural areas. While working in the library, Cano also returned to the University of Havana to study library science, after which she was tasked with reorganizing the
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the specialized fabric, custom made in Germany and Japan, on the library roof with the artists and librarian Barbara Young to determine its durability and if it would fade before selecting it for use in the two-year installation. The main exhibition was held in the former
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and later in his career served for 14 years as a handwriting expert for the Metro Police Crime Laboratory. He had previously served as vice president and co-founder of the American Society of Examiners of Questioned Documents, founded in 1942.
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In Miami, while working for the Miami-Dade Public Library System and developing its arts program, Cano was also a contributor and featured artist in several early Cuban and Latin American art venues in South Florida, such as
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miniature works that range from icon-like art of saints to storybooks and painted tiles. Her early works included landscapes of Cuba and works in ochre that were covered by the University of Havana's student design magazine,
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exhibition highlighting a century of art in Miami. Curated by Robert Chambers and hosted by Bridge Red Studios, the exhibition was held from November 20, 2022 — February 12, 2023, a period that notably included
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While still in Cuba, Cano became close to other Cuban artists that would become significant contributors to the establishment and development of Cuban and Latin American art in South Florida, such as
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Cano is responsible for launching the permanent art collection of the Miami-Dade County Library System as well as spearheading several milestone Miami art and literary events of the 1980s, such as
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as one of "The Library’s Three Graces in the Arts" along with Barbara Young and Helen Kohen for co-founding the Vasari Project to archive the history of visual art in Miami-Dade County.
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Cano's had her first child, her daughter Isabel. In 1960, Cano earned her master's degree in library science from the University of Havana. Their second child, Pablo, was born in 1961.
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In 2001, Cano co-founded the Miami-Dade Public Library System's Vasari Project with Kohen and Young to archive the development of visual arts in the area from 1945 to the present.
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Throughout her career, her art has been exhibited in New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and throughout South Florida. Cano's art is held in the permanent collection of the
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to recognize and assess the legacy of the original exhibition three decades later and the impact of that group of artists, several of whom had succumbed to the
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building. Fernandez Ruenes was also an engineer, a doctor in physics and chemistry, and an author. Fernandez Ruenes was also a professor of the
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to generate public interest and awareness for the then-upcoming Metro Dade Cultural Center, for which Cano was an art staff member. The
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along Flagler Street from Biscayne Blvd to the Courthouse, for which traffic was closed. Conceptually, the performance illustrated the
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Kohen, Helen L. (14 October 1994). "Going Public: Retired librarian no stranger to bold, sophisticated work".
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development of Cuban and Latin American art in South Florida. Her interviews have been included on the
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Alfonso-Paisley, Helena (21 December 2019). "Pablo Cano y su mundo de maravillas en plena Saguasera".
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John, Kessler (28 November 1981). "Tonight & Tomorrow: Watch Flagler Street come tumbling down".
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project in Miami, large artwork "dominoes" were then aligned and tumbled by then-Miami Mayor
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Jaffe McCabe, Cynthia; Cano, Margarita; Blanc, Giulio V. (October 1983).
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Alvarez Bravo, Armando; Espinosa Almodovar, Juan; Cabrera, Marta (2012).
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Miami Thriving in Change: Showcasing 50 years of Miami's Cultural Growth
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AP (26 October 1951). "Phony signing of checks can cause trouble".
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Connor, Olga (6 March 2005). "Margarita Cano: El Paraiso Perdido".
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Cano died in Miami, Florida, on March 19, 2024, at the age of 92.
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Bower, Nellie (18 March 1970). "Cano's paintings rich in color".
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Padron, Eduardo (8 November 2009). "The birth of the Book Fair".
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Staff (3 September 2015). "Margarita Cano's Explorations".
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1728:. University of Miami Libraries
1050:Batet, Janet (5 October 2014).
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1219:Cano, Margarita (April 1976).
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911:. Ninety Miles From Home LLC.
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1480:. The Coral Gables Museum
1478:www.coralgablesmuseum.org
824:"OBITUARY Margarita Cano"
565:Miami-Dade Public Library
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1173:Cano, Margarita (1976).
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964:www.cintasfoundation.org
735:Personal life and family
690:Margarita Cano: 90 Years
326:1980s to post-retirement
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2067:Ganz, James A. (2004).
1722:"CHC Materials on View"
1595:. Coral Gables, Florida
657:Legacy and recognitions
571:in Fort Lauderdale FL.
1924:Powell, David (2022).
575:Select art exhibitions
403:Perez Art Museum Miami
1726:www.library.miami.edu
1452:www.miamibookfair.com
761:University of Indiana
496:In 2007, Cano's film
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2197:American art patrons
2162:Writers from Florida
1999:The Bradenton Herald
1874:www.nsuartmuseum.org
1658:www.onatefineart.com
1503:"MIAMI MOMENTS 2012"
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410:The Miami Generation
393:library location in
229:Nineteen Eighty-Four
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120:The Miami Generation
88:University of Havana
2152:Artists from Havana
2013:"Fernandez, Rafael"
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1533:www.soulofmiami.org
1225:ARLIS/NA Newsletter
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