Silvia Salgado
SILVIA SALGADO
3529 Pope Street SE, Washington DC, 20020 cel------------
email: ------------, www:------------
EDUCATOR � ARTIST � PRODUCER OF RELATIONAL ART PROJECTS & ACTIONS
Excellent production skills for events management, professional graphic designer, effective and highly evaluated education specialist, specialized curriculum developer, studio art professor, creator of participatory/relational art projects, and accomplished 3 dimensional public works artist. Highly personable and effective communicator with bilingual interpreter experience and accomplished writing skills. Well adapted to navigate cultural differences having lived in both South and North America. Spanish and English fluency, proficient in computer design and other programs.
EDUCATION
� New York University, New York City. Masters degree in Art and Art Education. Specialized in printmaking.
� Other courses included Philosophy of Art Education, History of Documentary Film and Chinese Art History.
� Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Bachelor degree in Fine Arts. Majored in Printmaking and Film.
� Traduciendo Translation Certificate; Bogota. Workshop in translation and interpretation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING
LAB School - Washington, DC 2017
Taught children with learning differences in a specialized school with the focus on creative learning through art mediums and disciplines.
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano � Bogota, Colombia 2011-2015
Foundation course lecturer on the mythology of spatial concepts. Course covered technical use of different materials and approaches, understanding the evolution of the art form from ancestral traditions to contemporary sculptural innovations.
Fundaci�n Apic - Bogota 2005
Developed art curriculum program for special population of rural community workers for overcoming the distresses of displacement and under-privileged lives. Included confidence building project, using hand made papermaking techniques, and product design for developing home made industry and self-employment.
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand 1992-1997
School of Design: Tenured Professor of Printmaking and Basic Design Studies � Coordinator of the Printmaking Department, included staff hiring and curriculum development. Also lectured in computer graphics for VCD and Textile Department, as well as 2/3 Dimensional Design Studies, and Creative Processes.
Visual Arts Hawaii. Artists in Schools Program: 1989
Conducted art classes for first graders at various schools based in Honolulu. Funded and coordinated by Board of Education
and specialists in the arts. Independent contracts. Designed a special project with autistic young adults to achieve a team painted "mural" on canvas for the center. Taught adults with Alzheimer�s, and a group with dementia in a care center setting.
SCS Business School. 1986-87 Taught Russian immigrants English as a second language. Part of the US/RUSSIA Agreement for Jewish relocation out of Russia.
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 1985
Taught Japanese students, at an intermediate College level, English.
ART & LANGUAGE RELATED EXPERIENCE
Smithsonian Folk Life Festival - 2008-15
Worked as a presenter/interpreter during the festival for the Colombia exhibition, the Languages in Extinction program, and the Peru Festival last year. Duties included interpreting their participatory workshops with visitors. Assisted organizers with hospitality and touring for 100 participants.
Director and curator of private Gallery OBRA, Bogota, Colombia 2008
During the two years of presenting exhibitions, workshops and multiple cultural events, we offered the community an experience focused on understanding contemporary sculpture specifically with an organic and ecological focus.
Women for Peace Foundation in Bogota 2001 Titled Tejeser. (Weavebe) A three meter high woven participatory action sculpture elaborated by 20 women targeted to bring the two extremes of the armed conflict in Colombia together. reinserted illegal armies (guerillas) and the displaced war victims. A symbolic activity marking a Peace and Reconciliation Day, week long event.
Public Park Mosaic- Bogota 2002 Participated in the design, direction and elaboration of a community mosaic park. Over 200 people participated with their own mosaic creations pertinent to the topic, the Muisca creation mythology. Cherry Park, Bogota Colombia.
Ni�os de los Andes Foundation, Bogota 1999
Art Project created with the Ni�os de los Andes Children Foundation. Organized and created a political mural with Bogota homeless children for a collaborative project critiquing the presidential campaigns. The billboard was created by children and teenagers (ages 7-17).
Colombo- Americano Cultural Center � Bogot�, 1999 Curated a needlepoint exhibit called History of Needlepoint in Colombia. Assisted in the production for the historical video created for the exhibit.
Na Pari te Moana� Wellington, New Zealand 1995 Developed a permanent museum installation for Capital Discovery Children Museum, connecting the arts and science wings. Multimedia, sculptural, mural and audiovisual installation with community school children ages 11-14.
Video Production 1986-1992 Co-Producer for "Life wise"; an art education video funded by Olelo Community Access Television and The Hawaii Alliance for Arts. The program demonstrates the validity and urgency of making artistic/ creative development a significant component of the school curriculum. (Work in progress 1993.) Other productions include �First Time I Work� a 30-minute documentary on the Kalihi Summer Youth Program which involved the painting of a mural by teen-agers under my direction. Co-writer for this documentary shown on Community Access Television. in New York.
Na Kii Opio Project, Honolulu, Hawaii 1989 Worked as a volunteer 'one on one' photography instructor for a temporary special project designed to service homeless children of Hawaii in the art of photographing. Part of the infamous �Shooting Back Project� developed by Jim Hubbard in Washington, DC. The work of over 100 children was displayed in a traveling exhibit in the US.
Samoan Service Providers Agency,, Hawaii 1988 Youth Program Specialist for a city-granted project. Assisted in developing and structuring Kalihi Teen Program, an after-school job training and life skills program for Kalihi teenagers. Worked during two summers as artistic director leading a team of ten teenagers. Developed, designed and executed three murals at Kuhio Park Terrace, a community housing project. Also produced a sculptural display of eight life-size, painted wood animals for the African Savannah exhibit at the Honolulu Zoo. Developed a game designed to educate the public in a creative way about the zoo�s palm tree varieties. This featured acrylic silkscreened signs and game cards, which the teenagers researched and produced.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Cultural Art Center, Anapoima Colombia. Duality dialogue, two monumental; river stone and ground rock totems.
2014 La Minga Farm: Choachi, Colombia.. Designed and carved a finger labyrinth in a creek; part of a public work land art project.
2009 Water Vigils, Obra Gallery, varied materials, sculptures articulating water
1996 "Nga Korerorero- Ongoing Dialogue" - Sculptural water fountain for Midland Park, Wellington. Design and production
included seven bronze sculptures and surrounding pool area.
1983 Galeria Garces and Velasquez, Bogota, Colombia. Color etching series
1982 Washington Square Galleries, New York City. Color etching series
SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUMS, PROJECTS, & SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2007 I Sculpture Biannual � University of Antioquia, Medell�n, Colombia
2002 Commemoration Symposium 400 birthday Cajica � Colombia
2001 II International Marble Sculpture Symposium - Brusque, Brazil
Sculptors encounter for Peace and a War Memorial commemorating the 50 years since the Korean War. Invited as the Colombian representative to carve a granite 3 meter sculpture for the UNSECO Cemetery commemorating the soldiers who sacrificed their lives. Pusan, Korea
2000 Cartagena Theater Festival� Monumental coral stone sculpture carved during the festival.
1999 Escultura Viva' Symposium - San Benedetto de Tronto, Italia
1998 IV Stone Sculpture Symposium- Barichara, Colombia
1998 Kupenga Stone Symposium- New Plymouth, New Zealand
1997 International Festival of the Arts- Medellin, Colombia- Stone carving
SILVIA SALGADO
3529 Pope Street SE, Washington DC, 20020 cel------------
email: ------------, www:------------
EDUCATOR � ARTIST � PRODUCER OF RELATIONAL ART PROJECTS & ACTIONS
Excellent production skills for events management, professional graphic designer, effective and highly evaluated education specialist, specialized curriculum developer, studio art professor, creator of participatory/relational art projects, and accomplished 3 dimensional public works artist. Highly personable and effective communicator with bilingual interpreter experience and accomplished writing skills. Well adapted to navigate cultural differences having lived in both South and North America. Spanish and English fluency, proficient in computer design and other programs.
EDUCATION
� New York University, New York City. Masters degree in Art and Art Education. Specialized in printmaking.
� Other courses included Philosophy of Art Education, History of Documentary Film and Chinese Art History.
� Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Bachelor degree in Fine Arts. Majored in Printmaking and Film.
� Traduciendo Translation Certificate; Bogota. Workshop in translation and interpretation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TEACHING
LAB School - Washington, DC 2017
Taught children with learning differences in a specialized school with the focus on creative learning through art mediums and disciplines.
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano � Bogota, Colombia 2011-2015
Foundation course lecturer on the mythology of spatial concepts. Course covered technical use of different materials and approaches, understanding the evolution of the art form from ancestral traditions to contemporary sculptural innovations.
Fundaci�n Apic - Bogota 2005
Developed art curriculum program for special population of rural community workers for overcoming the distresses of displacement and under-privileged lives. Included confidence building project, using hand made papermaking techniques, and product design for developing home made industry and self-employment.
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand 1992-1997
School of Design: Tenured Professor of Printmaking and Basic Design Studies � Coordinator of the Printmaking Department, included staff hiring and curriculum development. Also lectured in computer graphics for VCD and Textile Department, as well as 2/3 Dimensional Design Studies, and Creative Processes.
Visual Arts Hawaii. Artists in Schools Program: 1989
Conducted art classes for first graders at various schools based in Honolulu. Funded and coordinated by Board of Education
and specialists in the arts. Independent contracts. Designed a special project with autistic young adults to achieve a team painted "mural" on canvas for the center. Taught adults with Alzheimer�s, and a group with dementia in a care center setting.
SCS Business School. 1986-87 Taught Russian immigrants English as a second language. Part of the US/RUSSIA Agreement for Jewish relocation out of Russia.
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 1985
Taught Japanese students, at an intermediate College level, English.
ART & LANGUAGE RELATED EXPERIENCE
Smithsonian Folk Life Festival - 2008-15
Worked as a presenter/interpreter during the festival for the Colombia exhibition, the Languages in Extinction program, and the Peru Festival last year. Duties included interpreting their participatory workshops with visitors. Assisted organizers with hospitality and touring for 100 participants.
Director and curator of private Gallery OBRA, Bogota, Colombia 2008
During the two years of presenting exhibitions, workshops and multiple cultural events, we offered the community an experience focused on understanding contemporary sculpture specifically with an organic and ecological focus.
Women for Peace Foundation in Bogota 2001 Titled Tejeser. (Weavebe) A three meter high woven participatory action sculpture elaborated by 20 women targeted to bring the two extremes of the armed conflict in Colombia together. reinserted illegal armies (guerillas) and the displaced war victims. A symbolic activity marking a Peace and Reconciliation Day, week long event.
Public Park Mosaic- Bogota 2002 Participated in the design, direction and elaboration of a community mosaic park. Over 200 people participated with their own mosaic creations pertinent to the topic, the Muisca creation mythology. Cherry Park, Bogota Colombia.
Ni�os de los Andes Foundation, Bogota 1999
Art Project created with the Ni�os de los Andes Children Foundation. Organized and created a political mural with Bogota homeless children for a collaborative project critiquing the presidential campaigns. The billboard was created by children and teenagers (ages 7-17).
Colombo- Americano Cultural Center � Bogot�, 1999 Curated a needlepoint exhibit called History of Needlepoint in Colombia. Assisted in the production for the historical video created for the exhibit.
Na Pari te Moana� Wellington, New Zealand 1995 Developed a permanent museum installation for Capital Discovery Children Museum, connecting the arts and science wings. Multimedia, sculptural, mural and audiovisual installation with community school children ages 11-14.
Video Production 1986-1992 Co-Producer for "Life wise"; an art education video funded by Olelo Community Access Television and The Hawaii Alliance for Arts. The program demonstrates the validity and urgency of making artistic/ creative development a significant component of the school curriculum. (Work in progress 1993.) Other productions include �First Time I Work� a 30-minute documentary on the Kalihi Summer Youth Program which involved the painting of a mural by teen-agers under my direction. Co-writer for this documentary shown on Community Access Television. in New York.
Na Kii Opio Project, Honolulu, Hawaii 1989 Worked as a volunteer 'one on one' photography instructor for a temporary special project designed to service homeless children of Hawaii in the art of photographing. Part of the infamous �Shooting Back Project� developed by Jim Hubbard in Washington, DC. The work of over 100 children was displayed in a traveling exhibit in the US.
Samoan Service Providers Agency,, Hawaii 1988 Youth Program Specialist for a city-granted project. Assisted in developing and structuring Kalihi Teen Program, an after-school job training and life skills program for Kalihi teenagers. Worked during two summers as artistic director leading a team of ten teenagers. Developed, designed and executed three murals at Kuhio Park Terrace, a community housing project. Also produced a sculptural display of eight life-size, painted wood animals for the African Savannah exhibit at the Honolulu Zoo. Developed a game designed to educate the public in a creative way about the zoo�s palm tree varieties. This featured acrylic silkscreened signs and game cards, which the teenagers researched and produced.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Cultural Art Center, Anapoima Colombia. Duality dialogue, two monumental; river stone and ground rock totems.
2014 La Minga Farm: Choachi, Colombia.. Designed and carved a finger labyrinth in a creek; part of a public work land art project.
2009 Water Vigils, Obra Gallery, varied materials, sculptures articulating water
1996 "Nga Korerorero- Ongoing Dialogue" - Sculptural water fountain for Midland Park, Wellington. Design and production
included seven bronze sculptures and surrounding pool area.
1983 Galeria Garces and Velasquez, Bogota, Colombia. Color etching series
1982 Washington Square Galleries, New York City. Color etching series
SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUMS, PROJECTS, & SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2007 I Sculpture Biannual � University of Antioquia, Medell�n, Colombia
2002 Commemoration Symposium 400 birthday Cajica � Colombia
2001 II International Marble Sculpture Symposium - Brusque, Brazil
Sculptors encounter for Peace and a War Memorial commemorating the 50 years since the Korean War. Invited as the Colombian representative to carve a granite 3 meter sculpture for the UNSECO Cemetery commemorating the soldiers who sacrificed their lives. Pusan, Korea
2000 Cartagena Theater Festival� Monumental coral stone sculpture carved during the festival.
1999 Escultura Viva' Symposium - San Benedetto de Tronto, Italia
1998 IV Stone Sculpture Symposium- Barichara, Colombia
1998 Kupenga Stone Symposium- New Plymouth, New Zealand
1997 International Festival of the Arts- Medellin, Colombia- Stone carving