Artist Aims To Honor Revolutionary Puerto Rican Women With Paseo Boricua Portraits

Artist Aims To Honor Revolutionary Puerto Rican Women With Paseo Boricua Portraits

HUMBOLDT PARK — Artist and activist Melissa DuPrey is on a mission to increase visibility for Puerto Rican women past and present in Humboldt Park. The Humboldt Park native, who is an actor and comic, is working with local leaders and cultural institutions to put up 20 portraits with accompanying plaques near the neighborhood’s signature steel flags. The featured women revolutionized the arts, culture and politics, among other areas, and were in…