Niceli Portugal

Niceli Portugal is a Multidisciplinary artist and educator hailing from Arequipa in the Peruvian Andes, now based in New York City. Niceli recently started working with CALL as part of our WaterWays Initiative. In her work she approaches topics related to immigration and sustainability, as a result of growing up around the Andean Cosmovision, a unique view driven by mutual nurture and interconnectedness between humans and nature. Education Coordinator at Materials for the Arts focusing on sustainability and art integration. Niceli has created educational programs for the Guggenheim Museum, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, Queens Museum and American Folk Art Museum. Her work has been shown at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Human Impacts Institute and Bronx Art Space. Niceli is the Director of Escuelita en Casa, an international initiative in response to the pandemic that connects educators and provides free tutoring and art classes to families in the US and Latin America.

For more about Niceli’s work check out her website here: https://niceliportugal.com/