Art, Music & Film Projects

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Spanish to English translation of song lyrics for Cuban hiphop album Habana Hiphop Vol. II (2019), produced by Pablo D. Herrera Veitia and made possible by Harvard’s Hiphop Archive and Research Institute. Sample track: Hiphop y pensamiento

Spanish > English catalog translation. The Lost Generation | La generación perdida accompanies an eponymous exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, spring 2024. The modern artistic ceramic movement in Cuba, almost exclusively comprised of women artists in the 1940s and 1950s.

Los Cubanos de Harvard / The Harvard Cubans. Full-length documentary film (72 minutes, 2017) about the Cuban Teachers’ Expedition of 1900. Produced by the Cuba Studies Program at Harvard University. Spanish<>English script and interview translation and subtitling; fact-checking; production liaison. US premiere October 2017 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Cuba premiere December 2018 at Havana International Film Festival.

Spanish > English translation of bilingual catalog to accompany a 2021–2022 retrospective exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, of modern Cuban painter Mariano Rodríguez (1912–1990).

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Into the Light / Hacia la luz. Full-length documentary (55 min., 2019) produced by Schler Productions, about the life of painter Rafael Soriano (b. 1920, Matanzas, d. 2015, Miami). US premiere June 2019 at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC. Cuba premiere December 2019 at Havana International Film Festival.

 Short Film & Video Subtitling

Cuenca, City of Spanish Abstraction. McMullen Museum at Boston College & Fundación March (9 minutes) 2019.

Startup Cuba docuseries exploring entrepreneurship in Cuba and beyond.

“Working with Erin is like working with the best mixing engineers. She understands the document quickly and takes it to the next level while maintaining the essence of the draft I send her. She’s definitely my secret weapon for writing.” Henry Cole, Grammy Award-winning master drummer and musical innovator from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico