Tavarez Name Meaning

Rosa Tavarez

is a Dominican painter and engraver. she graduated Professor of Fine Arts in early 1969. From 1971 to 1979, Rosa Tavarez studied printmaking at the Art Students League of New York. In 1979 she studied Artisan Design in Popayán, Colombia. In 1989, she finished a training workshop on Art and Anthropology, taught by Dr. Jose Alcina Franch, at the Dominican Museum of the Man. In 2004 she concluded a Post-Graduate Course in Cultural Management at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD). Since 1975 she has been exhibiting her works nationally and internationally at museums and galleries. Among the most important were the exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo in 1982 (The Idols) and 2001 (Echoes of the Ecological Cry); the 1993 Series Wounded Geometry; Enigmas, prints and drawings exhibited at the Museum of Art and History of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1988. She has also participated in important international exhibitions such as the Museum of Printmaking in Italy. Tavarez has received numerous prizes, awards and distinctions, including the Medal of Merit awarded in 1994 by the President of the Dominican Republic and the General Ministry for the Promotion of Women. The Medal of Merit was awarded for her 35 years of teaching by the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, in 2005. A Recognition for her Contribution to Education and the Arts was given to her by the Universidad Ibero-Americana (UNIBE) in 2007. In 2009, the Congress of the Dominican Republic dedicated the fifth floor of its building to the artworks of Rosa Tavarez.