Gran Carnaval Arroyano

The Carnaval Arroyano is among Puerto Rico’s oldest town festivals, rooted in colonial-era masquerades blending African, Taíno, and Spanish elements.
By 1976, the ICP had begun producing posters for local festivities to record and elevate their regional traditions. Rosa’s minimalist red-and-white design, showing two confronting masks, distills the carnival’s intensity and dualities — joy and mockery, freedom and disguise.
Its graphic restraint and rhythmic linework reflect Rosa’s interest in constructivist and poster modernism, linking Puerto Rican folklore to an international visual language.