 Between 1989 and 1991, Ferré served with former Governor Carlos Romero Barceló, former representative Benny Frankie Cerezo, PNP leader Kenneth McClintock and former congressional staffer David Gerken as the New Progressive Party's negotiating team while Congress considered Puerto Rico political status legislation introduced by Senator J. Bennett Johnston.Ferré was also a talented pianist who recorded several albums of his piano music.On January 3, 1959 he founded the Museo de Arte de Ponce, in his hometown of Ponce.