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Mendia, Elia Rosa
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Elia Rosa Fernández de Mendia was a Cuban sculptor, potter, and clay worker. She studied ceramics in New York. She also started a studio in the Santiago de las Vegas area of Havana, Cuba. She had a ceramics exposition with three other artists, Amelia Pelaez, Maria Garcia Buch, and Rebeca Robes at the Lyceum y Lawn Tennis Club in 1961. She sat on the Directive board of the Lyceum y Lawn Tennis Club, heading the exhibitions committee.
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Biographical note written by Kate Villa, 2020-2021 UGrow Fellow for Manuscripts and Archives Management.
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(Lyceum y Lawn Tennis Club. Jan. 1961. MS Feminism in Cuba: Women's Movement in Cuba, 1898-1958: The Stoner Collection on Cuban Feminism. Unknown. Archives Unbound, link.gale.com/apps/doc/SC5100593601/GDSC?u=miami_richter&sid=GDSC&xid=f6804a38&pg=116.)
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Desconocida, Elia Rosa Fernández Mendía, and Elena Mederos de González: Entrega de trofeos y medallas :: Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club Collection, 1929-1986 (miami.edu)
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Board of Directors, Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club, Havana :: Lyceum and Lawn Tennis Club Collection, 1929-1986 (miami.edu)