Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & educational Center (the organization, we, us, our) is a nonprofit incorporated in 1993 under not-for-profit corporation laws of the state of new york for charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code of 1954. The organization's mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation and preservation of puerto rican/latino culture and is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the Cultural diversity of the lower east side of manhattan, new york, and the city of new york as a whole. The organization provides subsidized artist studios and office space for numerous visual artists and nonprofit art organizations, an external review panel and a full schedule of exhibition and related activities, and for building activities, and for building community through the arts, which offers subsidized performance and rehearsal space to non profit arts organizations across the city. In addition to its theaters, the organization also provides short-term rentals of the parking lot and other areas throughout the building for artistic purposes.