Situated 650 miles east of Havana, the Oriente (eastern) region of Cuba is often described as the heartland of Cuban culture. Cuba Oriente presents 60 paintings and prints by 14 contemporary artists from the Oriente area.  These vibrant works, by both self-taught and academically trained artists working in a variety of styles, create a diverse, colorful portrait of a little known region. 

Fiction
Garcia, Christina, Dreaming in Cuban. New York: Knopf, 1992.  (FIC Gar)

Hemingway, Ernest.  The Old Man and the Sea.  (FIC Hem)

Non-Fiction
Bardach, Ann Louise. Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. New York: Random House, 2002. (972.9106 B)

Carr, Barry, Aviva Chomsky and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff. The Cuba Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.  (972.91 C)

Eire, Carlos. Waiting for Snow in Havana:  Confessions of a Cuban Boy.  New York: Free Press, 2003.  (B Eire)

Miller, John and Aaron Kenedi.  Inside Cuba.  New York: Marlow & Company, 2003.  (972.91 I) 

Ryan, Alan, The Reader's Companion to Cuba. Harcourt Brace and Co., 1997.  (917.291 R)

http://www.cubamapa.com/
View maps of Cuba on this Web site.  Las Tunas, Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, the five eastern-most Cuban provinces, make up the Oriente region.

http://www.cubanart.org/
Want to see more work from a specific artist represented in the Cuba Oriente exhibition?  Check out the Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange Web site. This site contains additional images, biographies and interviews with each of the 14 artists, as well as an extensive photo-journal documenting everyday life in eastern Cuba. Available in both English and Spanish.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/cuba.htm
Browse the timelines, maps, photographs and information on this site to learn more about 515 years of Cuban history. Written and compiled by A. J. Sierra

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/index.html
Find out more about Fidel Castro, Cuba’s current leader with this PBS site.