Mildred Beltré is a multi-disciplinary artist using printmaking, drawing, and installation to explore the intersection of social justice, identity, community and the body. Beltré is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, an ongoing socially engaged collaborative art project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; Zuckerman Museum, GA; De Cordova Museum, MA; Everson Museum, NY; Smackmellon, NY; The International Print Center NY, among others. Selected grants, fellowships, and  residencies include:  Weeksville Heritage Center, NY; Apex Art,NY BRIC, Santa Fe Art Institute, NM; Vermont Studio Center, VT;  Lower East Side Printshop, NY; The Latinx Project, NY and The Metropolitan Museum, NY.

Artist Statement

The prints included here are from a series called Skin in the Game, an open-ended series of figurative works. By using my own image, I make myself vulnerable and implicate myself in the project of representation, and social justice. This series began as a way to think about risk and personal accountability. Through this work I consider the connections between commitment and uncertainty, conviction and doubt. 

The other set of images are of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine. BHAM is a collaborative public art project   that explores the possibility of art making as a community-building tool. Co-founded with Oasa DuVerney in 2010, BHAM seeks to create a stronger community by giving people an opportunity to get to know each other. By making art on the street together, members of the community find new ways to relate to each other in public space.