“The Landing of Hernando DeSoto in Tampa Bay,” oil on panel, detail of a Timucuan scout in the mangrove jungle, by Dr. Jose Rodeiro ’67 Rodeiro ’67: A Life of Art Dr. Jose Rodeiro ’67’s exceptional 50- year art career has led him far and wide, including Spain, Central America, and Latin America, and now, after a half-century, back to Florida. The recently retired Art History professor raised in Ybor City and Davis Islands has returned to the Tampa Bay area and is living in St. Petersburg. But “retired” hardly describes him. 20 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • SPRING 2017 In March, Rodeiro visited Jesuit to participate in Career Day, enlightening Jesuit’s juniors and seniors about the dozens of professional paths their artistic skills can yield. And from April 11 – July 7, Rodeiro’s work is featured in the Art Gallery at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. It is part of an event curated by Raúl Villarreal (Cuban artist and co-author of the book: “Hemingway’s Cuban Son”), titled Pura Cuba: Oak Hammock Edition. It is the latest chapter in an amazing career fi lled with distinguished grants, publications, and art exhibits. A Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Ohio University, Rodeiro’s grants include an Institute for International Education Cintas Fellowship, 1982; Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1986-87; Maryland State Arts Council AiE Grant, 1992; Fulbright Fellowship Grant, completed at Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua, 1995; and New Technology Implementation Grant, 2000. Rodeiro’s slew of publications could fi ll several pages, and they include Groliers’ Encyclopedia Latina (Aesthetics, Cuban- American, Dominican-American), 2007; Transcultural New Jersey, Volume II, New Brunswick: Rutgers Offi ce for Intercultural Initiatives and Zimmerli Art Museum, 2005; The Visual Imagery of Latinas/os of New Jersey, Center for Latino Art & Culture Publication, Rutgers University, 2002; El Coro, University of Massachusetts Press, 1997; “Metaforar y Teorias esteticas,” Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia, 1993; and “Nicaraguan Contemporary Art,” Nuevo Amanecer Cultural, Managua, Nicaragua, Ano XII, 1991. His art exhibits include the Perth Amboy Art Center; Kenkelaba Gallery; Mason Gross; Washington County Museum in Maryland; Cintas Collection, Florida International Museum; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; and Newark Museum. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art includes Rodeiro in its database of NEA recipients, and he is listed in Who’s Who in American Art. And until recently, he was a Professor of Art and Art History at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, N.J. Rodeiro’s extraordinary range is shown on his website – www.rodeiro-art.com – which displays his artwork in eight different styles/techniques (Amazar, Amnesis, Bodegones, Drawings, Grand Manner, Landscape & Vedute, Primordialism, and Watercolors), each its own gallery of a dozen or more pieces. Rodeiro also recently gave a remarkable in-depth interview to Ragazine, considered the world’s leading art and poetry online magazine. Scan the QR code to access the interview. Scan to view an in-depth interview with Dr. Jose Rodeiro ’67 “Picnic at Bath Beach,” oil on canvas, depicting Jose Marti with his God-daughter and her mother at Bath Beach in Brooklyn, by Dr. Jose Rodeiro ’67 Rodeiro at Jesuit’s Career Day in March
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