Congratulations to Domingo Pablo Gutiérrez, who goes by the name Pablo for being selected as RILA's 1st Emerging Latinx Visual Arts Fellow.

Pablo was selected among a list of highly competitive Latinx applicants statewide. The Fellowship provides an award of $1,000 to emerging Latinx artists studying and residing in Rhode Island, a portion of which will go toward school tuition and/or summer courses. One of his selected pieces will made into a poster for an upcoming exhibition of his work at La Galería @RILA, which will be scheduled for Fall of 2022.

Pablo was born in Guatemala and moved to Providence, RI as a teenager. He is a trilingual student, native speaker of K'iche’, the Mayan language of Guatemala, and advanced in Spanish and English. Pablo is a Junior at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a major in illustration. Pablo states: "I’m fascinated to illustrate themes of personal life experience, memories, background, and often dreams by representing it symbolically, and or narratively. Since I was a child I have loved drawing with pencil and colored pencils which have become one of my favorite mediums to use in my artwork."