I am an artist/dollmaker and Ancestral researcher who specializes in preserving the African heritage in Puerto RIco. My paintings, dolls and workshops related to finding your African roots in Puerto Rico. My mission as been to create and preserve our folklore ,history and the memory of folk people through my art. My one of kind original paintings watercolors, drawings, textile dolls with paperclay faces, express my creativity and passion for this artform that is soley my own .
Ivelisse pabon taught Puerto Rican doll making in the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Year 15, 2012-2013