Artists & Scholars

Providing quality professional arts lecturers for your next event!

Artist & Scholars, a division of Taller Portobelo Norte, provides universities, public and private arts and education institutions with professional artists for lectures, readings, workshops and student critiques.

Our artists are poets, ethnographers, playwrights, painters and sculptors with years of experience to their credit.

Our artists are scholars and noted professionals in their respective fields, so you get an engaging and knowledgable speaker at your event every time!

Artists & Scholars can also organize your next retreat or conference in Portobelo, Panama with our full service Retreat Coordination Service.

Services Include:
• House Rental
• Airport Pickup and Drop Off
• Meal Preparation
• Cleaning Services
• Water Taxi
• Panama City and Panama Canal Tours
• Duty Free Zone Shopping Trips

For more information on booking an artist for your next event or planning your next retreat or conference, please click here.

Artist Spotlight:

	Ayokunle Odeleye has been working as a professional sculptor and educator for the past thirty four years since receiving a Masters Degree from Howard University in 1975. He specializes in the creation of large scale sculptures for public spaces primarily in the media of steel and wood. He has been commissioned to create public sculptures for cities across the nation from Atlanta to Alaska. Mr. Odeleye is an arts educator who has been teaching art for over three decades. . Currently he is a Professor of Art at Kennesaw State University. For more information on booking this artist, please click here.
	Fahamu Pecou earned a BFA in Painting and Digital Media in 1997 from the Atlanta College of Art. Pecou has had several solo exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and has participated in numerous group shows and international art fairs including Art Chicago, the Pulse Art Fair and Art Basel. His work has also been featured in many publications including; Harper's Magazine, The International Review of African American Art, Fader Magazine and Pimp Magazine (UK). He is a recipient of a 2009 Artadia Award, a 2008 Caversham Center Fellowship, Creative Loafing's Editors Choice Best Art Exhibit Award in 2008, the Atlanta Biennial Best in Show Award for 2007 and Creative Loafing's Editors Choice for Best Emerging Artist 2007. For more information on booking this artist, please click here.
	Howard L. Craft is a poet, playwright and arts educator from Durham, N.C. Craft is a two time winner of the North Carolina Central University New Play Project and the recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship. His plays have been produced at North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro, N.C. Craft conducts poetry residencies and workshops for 3rd through 12th grade students through the United Arts "Artists in the Schools" program. Craft has also taught writing workshops for adults through the North Carolina Writer's Network and Duke University. For more information on booking this artist, please click here.