Projects in Partnership with Taller Guaguarey
Taller Guaguarey offers free education in ceramics and pottery in Cayey, Puerto Rico, to promote equity, emotional well-being, and local socioeconomic development through progressive technical training for children, youth, and adults, actively fostering participants’ self-management through their official certification as Puerto Rican artisans.
HASER and Taller Guaguarey have partnered to promote social well-being in Puerto Rico through equitable access to free ceramics and pottery classes in the mountainous region, expanding opportunities for personal, economic, and creative development.
Taller Guaguarey is part of HASER’s Network of Actions Program.
About your donation: Taller Guaguarey is part of HASER’s Network of Actions Program, which promotes social well-being in Puerto Rico through projects and initiatives carried out with organized communities. Your donation to HASER for this charitable purpose is tax-deductible. HASER is a nonprofit organization with federal tax-exempt status under 501(c)(3) and Section 1101.01(a)(2)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code for a New Puerto Rico. If you prefer to make a contribution by check, please make it payable to HASER, Inc., write “Taller Guaguarey” in the memo line, and mail it to HASER, Inc., PO Box 368035, San Juan, PR 00936-8035.
More About Taller Guaguarey
Taller Guaguarey is a community-based clay pottery program in the municipality of Cayey, Puerto Rico, that offers free classes. They see clay pottery as earth, memory, and culture—a medium for learning with hands, sparking creativity, and building confidence.
In October 2020, Taller Guaguarey took shape as an organized community initiative that continued and strengthened the ceramics education work begun in 2013. Since then, clay has brought together people from different generations, making ceramics accessible to those who, due to distance, cost, or a lack of opportunities, would otherwise have had little or no access to it.
In collaboration with the Cayey Municipal School of Fine Arts and through an agreement with the municipality, Taller Guaguarey offers these free ceramics classes throughout the academic year, including materials, tools, pottery wheels, glazes, and kilns for creating and firing pieces. In this way, clay has become part of the community while providing students with the opportunity to prepare for official registration and certification as artisans in Puerto Rico through the Office of Economic Development.
