Thursday, December 3, 2009
Taller en Puerto El Morro
El Museo en una Caja fue socializado en la escuela de la comuna Puerto El Morro en el Guayas con un grupo de niños y con las docentes de la escuela.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
At Center for Art and Public Life
Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box
Exhibition and Artist Talk with Ana Fernandez
September 7–30, 2009
Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland campus
5275 Broadway
On display September 7 - September 30
in the Center for Art and Public Life Office Gallery
Gallery hours 10am - 4:30pm Mon. - Fri.
Artist Talk with Ana Fernandez
3:15 - 4pm, Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ana will present her project "Museo en una Caja / Museum in a Box" an arts education tool developed to bring contemporary Ecuadorian art to rural communities. Ana conducts art workshops in rural Ecuadorian communities and urban under-served populations. She designed the Museum in a Box so it can be easily transported, seen, touched, passed down to other people, and serve as an inspiration to create art.
The first 20 K-12 teachers who attend the artist talk will receive a free "Museum in a Box" to use in their own classrooms.
About the Artist
Ana Fernandez was born in 1963 and raised in Quito, Ecuador. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in Painting and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts. She explores the intersection between the real and the fantastic through drawing, painting, writing and random street actions. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krassner Foundation Award, and was an Artist in Residence at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale New York. She received a grant to develop and Art Program in Yunguilla Ecuador through Center for Art and Public life. Ana is current Drawing and Painting faculty at the School of Fine Arts Central University Quito, also develops a program to bring Contemporary Ecuadorian Art to rural communities through the Central Bank’s Cultural Department. Her work has been shown throughout Latin America, Spain, San Francisco and New York, and is in many collections in those countries. She represents Ecuador in the Cuenca Biennial.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
"Toctes" Paula Barragan
"La torera" Valeria Andrade
"Embedded" Maria Rosa Jijon
"Preocesion" Ana Fernandez
"Te deseo el doble de lo que tu me deseas" Miguel Alvear
"La virgen de los Peluches" Patricio Ponce
"Centro" Patricio Palomeque
"Biancheria" Paulina Leon
"Perro" de Pablo Gamboa
"Tiwintza mon amour" Manuela Ribadeneira
De la serie Cosiendo cocinando de María Salazar
"Libreta telefónica" de Janneth Méndez
"Con esa señorita me caso yo" de Dayana Rivera
"Cobertor" de la serie Prueba tu suerte de Juana Cordova
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Katya Cazar "Frozen Memory"
Pablo Cardoso "Desierto"
Jorge Espinosa "Regreso al Cogreso"
El vestido que Eva siempre deseó. Obra de la artista Pamela Pazmiño dentro del Museo en una Caja
Introduction
Two years ago when doing art workshops in rural Ecuadorian communities, very hard to reach due to terrible road conditions, I used to ask myself what could be the most eficient way to do this. Computers and projection gear where out of the question because many of these communities don’t have electrical power, posters where enormous and hard to carry, books were small, sometimes too heavy and most times impossible to open all the way. Finally one morning the idea hit me: a box! a museum in a box! this could be the answer. A small accordion book with images of 30 artists and their artwork, so it can be seen, touched, passed down to other people, and serve as an inspiration to create art from.
Then I started creating what would come to be this project inspired in a small chemistry lab I had when I was a child. The lab offers info at the same time that gives us the chance to experiment and provides the necessary materials to do it. This is what Museum in a Box brings to you, an accordion book, a catalog and a supplies box to experiment with.
Inside it you will find the artists and their artwork. There are many fine contemporary artists in the Ecuadorian art scene, many and with very distinct and rich work. Not all of them are here. This is a selection of work that has caught my attention through my years as an art teacher. I selected this artists thinking about the audience it is dedicated to: teachers and young students. I used two criteria: first, I wanted the artwork to be fun and inspire the audience to create from it, and second that the artists are emerging and or under-represented. There are obviously some exceptions that confirm the rule.
Some projects have been already “tested” in my various workshops in different contexts. Some are new projects to be experimented by teachers in their own classrooms. I have made the effort of choosing artists whose work is fun, whose practice has kept the ability of “wonderment” that I so admire in art,. These are artists who use imagination to create worlds that are both fantastic and unthinkable.
I present you then with an art lab where you can find artists and artwork, you will be able to experiment and play with, and hopefully create your own.
Introducción
Hace dos años, cuando hacía una serie de talleres de apreciación de arte en poblaciones rurales ecuatorianas, de difícil acceso por rutas escarpadas y alejadas, me preguntaba una y otra vez cuál sería el instrumento más adecuado para hacer llegar el arte ecuatoriano actual a estas comunidades.
Las computadoras e Infocus están fuera de lugar cuando no existe electricidad, los engorrosos afiches, enmarcados o no, son enormes y difíciles de llevar, los libros son pequeños, a veces pesados y otros imposibles de abrir. Finalmente, una mañana se me ocurrió: ¡un museo en una caja! La caja contendría un pequeño libro de acordeón con las imágenes de la obra de artistas que la gente podría ver, tocar, pasarse de mano en mano, llevar, traer, mandar, en fin, hacerla suya.
Empecé a concebir este proyecto inspirado en una caja-laboratorio de química que me regalaron cuando era niña. El laboratorio, a la vez que ofrece información, nos da la oportunidad de experimentar, de realizar proyectos para los cuales nos provee los materiales necesarios. Esto es lo que trae este museo en una caja, un libro de acordeón, un catálogo con instrucciones y una caja de materiales para experimentar.
En el libro de acordeón encontrarán a los artistas y su obra. Son muchos los artistas de la escena contemporánea ecuatoriana. Muchos y con obra distinta, rica y por demás interesante. No todos están aquí. Ésta es una selección de obras de artistas cuyo trabajo me ha interesado a lo largo de mis años como educadora de arte. La hice tomando en cuenta principalmente la audiencia a la que va dedicada: docentes, niños y jóvenes. Escogí la obra con dos criterios, uno que sea divertida e inspire a esta audiencia a crear a partir de ella, y otro que la hayan hecho artistas comprometidos con su creación, pero que tal vez no han tenido la difusión que su obra merece. Obviamente hay excepciones, encontrarán trabajos de artistas por demás conocidos dentro y fuera del país, que confirman la regla.
Algunos proyectos han sido ya “probados” en mis talleres hechos en varios años y en diferentes contextos. Otros son proyectos para ser experimentados por los docentes de arte y compartidos con sus alumnos en el aula. He hecho hincapié en escoger trabajos de artistas que producen obra divertida, que de algún modo conservan la facultad de maravillarse y maravillar que tanto admiro en el arte. Son artistas que emplean la imaginación para crear mundos impensables y fantásticos.
Les presento, entonces, un laboratorio de arte donde podrán encontrar artistas y obras, podrán experimentar y jugar dentro de sus mundos y encontrarán, ojalá, otros mundos propios para explorar.