Taller Guaguarey’s Mission

• Build connection to Puerto Rican land and culture through free community pottery classes for adults and children in Cayey, Puerto Rico. 
• Inspire students to tap into their creativity through the spiritual and emotional healing effect of clay and building fellowship with other potters. 
• Provide tools and materials to create pieces of such high quality that participants could get certified as a Puerto Rican Artisan.

Taller Guaguarey works in partnership with the town of Cayey ensuring that our pottery classes serve the community. This partnership provides access to a classroom, equipment, water, electricity and student registration.

 

The word “Guaguarey” means clay in the language of the
indigenous Taínos of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. 

 

ABOUT CAYEY

Cayey is a mountain town in central Puerto Rico. With a population of about 16,000 people, 54.2% live in poverty, compared to 44% of all Puerto Rico’s people. Families and communities throughout our archipelago are facing great uncertainty now that our debt has led to the privatization of our public assets, the closing of over 400 schools, a quickly rising cost of living, and administrative decisions made without regard for people’s needs. This is resulting in a massive exodus of our population.