Carlos Hernández Chávez

Carlos Hernández Chávez is a musician and performer of Jazz and Latin music, playing guitar and singing with Latin musicians around the Greater Hartford area. He often hosts “Porch Concerts” at his home in Harford, convening and participating in musical activities and events around the area. A muralist and a visual artist of international acclaim, his paintings and murals are on permanent display at cultural, educational, and social institutions in the U.S. and Europe and have been featured by print and electronic media in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to being a respected visual artist and educator, he is also an accomplished musician and photographer. Mr. Hernández Chávez is an active Master Teaching Artist with education districts and arts agencies and institutions across Connecticut. Since the early 1970s he has held leadership roles as advisor, co-founder, director, juror, organizer, lecturer, policy-maker, artist-in-residence, consultant, and commissioner, in many Connecticut and Hartford area organizations and institutions, among them The Connecticut Alliance of Black and Hispanic Visual Artists; the Old State House; The Park Street Festival; the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz; Yale University's Afro-American Cultural Center; the (former) Connecticut Commission on the Arts; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Real Art Ways; Concerned Citizens for Humanity, Inc.; Guakia, Inc., the Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Concert Trust Fund; the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Leadership Greater Hartford, the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, and the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. He is past Chair of the City of Hartford's Commission on Cultural Affairs and currently serves as President of the Mariachi Academy of New England, Inc.