Open Studios Chance For Artists To Show Their Wares
Open Studios Chance For Artists To Show Their Wares by Sharon Geltner Rolando Chang Barrero, who owns ActivistArtistA Studio in West Palm Beach and leases 10 warehouses to artists in the Boynton Beach Arts District, says he is scouting locations for his capstone career retrospective next January. Barrero started his career in Miami then lived in South Beach before moving north to Wilton Manors. (Barrero won Best Artist of Palm Beach County in 2021 and was honored with a Muse award for cultural leadership, as well as garnering recognition for his galleries, LGBTQ representation and political activism.) Rolando Chang Barrero Broward is the ideal spot for that exhibition,” says Barrero. “I am getting closer to my retirement. I want to concentrate on leaving a body of work reflective of my 40-plus years as a visual artist while I still can,” he says. He also contemplates how, 30 years ago, he cheated death at age 32, by beating a “hopeless” brain tumor diagnosis. Today he says his
