Raquel Torres Arzola

Raquel Torres Arzola is an artist, independent curator, and community-driven project manager dedicated to researching and promoting the ancestral and contemporary connections between art, culture, gender, and ecology. She is skilled in conceptualizing, developing, managing, and producing art exhibitions and public education events across Puerto Rico’s academic and cultural sectors. With extensive experience in fostering collaborations between private and public institutions, she is also an art writer, cultural lecturer, and researcher with deep knowledge of Puerto Rican and Caribbean history, complemented by international experience as a guest editor and peer reviewer for both independent and institutional programs. Raquel served as the Curator for Public Education for the Triennial of San Juan and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, is a member of the Las Casas de la Selva forest community, and spent nearly two years as Outreach Organizer for the women-led reclaimed timber organization Puerto Rico Hardwoods, Inc., where she successfully secured a major business development grant. Currently, she is collaborating with Arte-Suelo-Ser, Inc. to secure funding for an empowerment-through-education program that supports disadvantaged and marginalized communities in co-designing and developing urban forests as part of climate resilience activism.