Pedro Pan artist Emilio Falero has won many awards like the Cintas Foundation Fellowship, New York; the Ziuta and Joseph James Akston Foundation Award at the 38th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art Painting; The Society of Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida. He has been recognized by many curators, gallery owners and prominent art critics as a leading artistic component of the Cuban American art scene for more than four decades and running. His work can be found in pr...ominent art collections such as the Agrupación Católica Universitaria, Miami, Florida, the Cintas Foundation Inc., New York, New York; the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida, and the Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami Florida. Emilio J. Falero Mesa arrived in Camp Matecumbe at age 15 on October 6, 1962.