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Christina Delgado is a Baltimore based photographer, designer, and curator. Her work revolves around a sense of self and identity as a Nuyorican born and raised in New York City who migrated to Baltimore as a young adult. Delgado’s work displays a passion and pride for identity in family and homeplace. It connects ways in which home, place, and family can be sights of pain & trauma but ultimately sights of healing, freedom, and self-love. 

Christina Delgado became a photographer and an artist later in life. Her experience started as a hobby, then became a profession and her reason for wanting to become a teacher early in her career. She has been an educator, artist, and culture worker for well over 17 years. She is the founder and owner of Tola’s Room, an immersive Puerto Rican home museum and culture space located in Northeast Baltimore. Tola’s Room named after her daughter, Omotola serves, as the only Puerto Rican culture hub in Baltimore City. She is currently on the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Resident Roster and works with Arts for Learning Maryland as an arts equity advisor, creativity mentor, and teaching artist. Artist statement

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The artist's aunt's hands holding out assorted objects. "The objects include her father's gold & diamond nameplate, a small Buddha statue, and a gold and enamel pendant of the Virgin Mary & Jesus which belonged to her grandmother, her father's mother." - Christina Delgado
Christina Delgado. An Offering, 2014. Digital photograph. 20 x 24 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.
A digitally compiled image of an installation features a shelving unit filled with books, pictures, and various trinkets. A picture of a bald eagle hangs on the wall. On the door to the exhibit, keys are hanging, with a Dallas Cowboys poster above them. Below the poster, there is a photograph frame displaying a two-dollar bill, along with another framed photograph at the bottom. In the bottom center, a picture of a "Take Your Shoes Off" sign is visible next to a carpet. On the carpet, there appears to be a stool of some kind, and in the far right corner of the room, an altar is present. The words "The Shrine" are written in yellow lettering on the left, and everything is set against a red backdrop.
Christina Delgado. The Shrine, Tola's Room Basement Installation, 2021. Installation, variable dimensions. Image courtesy of Osvaldo Rosario.
A digitally compiled image of four photographs. A bookshelf holds framed photographs and relics of the artist’s father, with some items on the floor. One photo shows a black-and-white Puerto Rican flag, a woman standing in front of a door, and a framed Puerto Rican flag in front of her, with office supplies below and a smaller framed Puerto Rican flag below. An image of a notebook with PR PASSION in orange lettering and a blue outline overlaps this photo. Another image features trinkets, a stuffed bear, and a projector on a chair where her father last sat, projecting a Bacardi bottle. Tola’s Room is written in white on a red square in the bottom left. A yellow backdrop frames the images.
Christina Delgado. Tola's Room, Tola's Room 3rd Floor Installation, 2022. Installation, variable dimensions. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Christina Delgado standing in part of the Puerto Rican Home Museum in Baltimore. There are black and white photographs, banners, and clothing.

Five Minute Histories: Puerto Rican Home Museum

YouTube: Five Minute Histories
Christina Delgado stands for a portrait on 9/7/22 in front of photographs and artwork she’s created that are housed on the walls of the Puerto Rican museum and cultural hub she curated inside her home. (Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Banner)

A Puerto Rican Experience: An Artist Transforms Her Home in Baltimore Into a Museum

Article: The Baltimore Banner