NYI SCHOOL

Teacher Training

After concluding the 2005 period, the Director of the Museum of Art in Lima granted a scholarship for the course “Forming Art Teachers” to be used by any of the persons working at NYI School of Art. This scholarship was financed by the World Bank through the Museum of Art and only accessible to 30 titled teachers. This training course is given to all school teachers who, being in charge of students, do not have a clear idea of the possibilities art offers. The main objective of the course, which was dictated from August through December 2005, was to emphasize the use of a multicultural expressive pedagogy, providing tools for the teacher in order to encourage the students to work through Art, recovering Memory in search of Dignity. Ms. Stefani Pérez del Aguila, Assistant Professor at NYI School of Art, was chosen for othis grant, reason why she moved to Lima.

The authorities at the Museum of Art were extremely careful and solidarious with regard to the work that NGO Comunidad Tawantinsuyu is developing in the Jungle and which intends to continue all over of what used to be the Tawantinsuyu territory. Nevertheless, Ms. Pérez del Aguila, because of her community sense, has left a favorable impression on them. Due to her solvent participation in the psychophysical exam, Ms. Appiani manifested the possibility of giving her the opportunity to apply to the Career of Pedagogy in Art, which is dictated in the same museum in coordination with the Catholic University; it takes five years to finish the career. Previously, it is necessary to level her knowledge on general culture and mathematics, to be ready to give a good exam.

Taking into consideration that the scholarship “Forming Art Teachers” lasted four months, we considered important that Ms. Pérez del Aguila at the same time could participate in other training workshops in some of the artistic disciplines (illustration, painting and sculpture).

At the beginning of October, Ms. Casilda Pinche Sánchez, after solving personal issues, was invited to come to Lima to train in other art techniques and disciplines (illustration of the human figure, sculpture, painting; use of diverse materials: pastel chalk, oil pastel, oil, graphite, sanguine pencil, carbon pencil). Due to her short permanence in Lima, we thought convenient that she took intensive workshops.