Rafael Ferrer (actor)
Rafael Ferrer may refer to: * Rafael Ferrer (artist), Puerto Rican artist * Rafael Ferrer (Jesuit) Rafael Ferrer (b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. in 1610) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and explorer. Life His first mission was to Pasto in 1598, where he encountered the Cofanis, and found them peaceful and receptive. In 1599 was sent to Quito, ...

Rafael Ferrer (artist)
Rafael Ferrer (born 1933) is a Puerto Rican artist. He was a 1993 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a 2011 recipient of an Annalee and Barnett Newman Foundation Grant. Life From an early age, Ferrer traveled between Puerto Rico and the United States, studying in his teens at Staunton Military Academy, and then at Syracuse University from 1951 to 1953. Since his years at Staunton, he learned to play drums, which began his involvement with Afro-Cuban music. At Syracuse, fellow students introduced him to the world of art through books, causing a failed attempt to register in the Art Department. During his vacations he would travel to New York City, where he would stay with his half-brother, the Academy Award winner actor, José Ferrer, whom he would accompany to Jazz clubs, meeting many of the musicians who were friends of his brother. He also began to regularly visit the Museum of Modern Art, as well as art galleries. In the fall of 1953, he returned to Puerto Rico ...
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