Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD ¡Charla Educativa! (Educational Chat!), 1 Nov 2018

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Alba Morales, presentadora de Charla Educativa, charla con padres, estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad sobre asuntos, programas escolares y recursos comunitarios de importancia para la población Hispana. En este episodio Alba charla Wilfredo Valladares, Profesor de Escultura de AACC.

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] next in educational talk, we will talk with wilfredo valladares, sculptor and teacher at andando community college.

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Welcome to educational talk: I am your presenter alva morales. Today we will talk with wilfredo, valladares, sculptor and teacher at under and world community college wilfredo. Welcome to the program. Many.

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Thank you for inviting me with.

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Great pleasure,, it is very exciting to have you here, because you have two roles that are wonderful on a personal level.. I am fascinated by the part of art and on the other hand, you are a teacher and I also love that, because.

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The work in education.

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That our guests can know and know a little about. You tell us what is your country of origin? What exactly is your profession and how did you get to this situation because well.

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I am a sculptor right and an art teacher, and previously in Honduras, I taught as a primary education teacher I taught.

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Grade second grade up to sixth grade and in free time, I painted to see Dad, that is, he was a self-taught artist,. He.

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Well,, it wasn't until I got here that I began to formalize that art education, failing to get a bachelor's degree in art and then consequently, a master's degree in sculpture and I am currently teaching and coordinating a program in a random community college. Ok,.

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And this this program that you coordinate, so you teach at the college, is specific to sculpture or, as you named, also painting what what program is coordinating. That is specifically specifically.

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In sculpture, at the college of a narrating and within the program we have classes of first level sculpture and we have three-dimensional design. There is also another class that focuses only on art constructions related to metal. Where.

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Make engravings cast from metal, whether it is.

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And that is how the program was concentrated.

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Before speaking a little about the sculptures that we have here in our program, you say you were self-d Idact that he painted and how this arose from your childhood. There was some event that made you go towards painting and then you head towards sculpture, how he turns someone into an artist I.

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Think he does it. Thinking about childhood. When I was in Honduras,, my mother worked,. She didn't have many jobs, one.

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Them was designing clothes,.

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I remember that I attended her,. It didn't.

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And besides, that, I also grew up in a home where everything was done,. Not only did everything the curiosity of that and that, as always, we did everything I began to have an interest in art and.

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Were artists in the city and sometimes I watched and that's how I learned just not and I went on teaching, but the formalization of education was here.

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And for formalize that education, because surely the people who are watching us do not know whether you had to go to a college or a university or there are art schools that formalized your education, well.

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In my case, I had to I have to take classes and build an art. Portfolio, apply to a four-year university, right,, get a bachelor's degree in art and then get a master's degree,, which.

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More years of study, okay, so.

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Let's say because sometimes the kids see us because This is on YouTube,, even if you don't believe it,. Sometimes the kids see us and.

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There is someone who is interested in art.. We know that there is a lot of talent within the Hispanic community.

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Latin Americans,, we have an incredible culture and artistic wealth,.

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We continue to be.

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True, and so the idea It's, like those kids who are just in high school, for example,, win high school. It, would be good if they take art classes at school and create a portfolio, which I think.

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Is the key that you want. The portfolio is the voice, not the.

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Of the person when he said they apply because art itself opens doors, because it is something special within art, education, because the portfolio as a com or the entrance I don't know. So. When a committee of a school reviews the portfolio, they realize the ability, the level of interest that in the student. But if it is necessary to have 10 the council.

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Start putting together your portfolio from.

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That make her in high school, they put them in a folder and then.

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Already exist in the state of maryland or in the usa, there are thousands of thousands of programs, but we.

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To focus on the one you work on before talking about what you worked on.

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Would love for us to talk About these two pieces that we have here,.

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Us a little about their history,, how they arose and their clear material.

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Yes, well,, these two pieces belong to a series that I call clearer,, which is like taking off the mask and is based on the issue of immigration. During.

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Like me, who cross the border to.

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Here, if not to the idea of this series of sculptures to give visibility to people, because in yes,, when we arrive in another culture,, that is one of the great obstacles that we have as Latin Americans as immigrants who.

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Here and we have to overcome that obstacle where there is transparency,.

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Where people do not see us as it should be,, yes,.

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So in other lenses.

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With other lenses.

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So like to survive in the system, a new system we have to put on a mask not for a.

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No, so this series dedicated to that aspect of crossing cultures or learning a new culture or surviving in.

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Culture and for me, it takes time to remove the mask. No, yes and then, as when one comes to remove that mask. The person who is in true being is.

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Revealed and even more, it means.

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Unmasking unmasking unmasking.

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In these, for these two specific pieces, you used a model, a person if, by.

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Chance, let's say that here is the person and he came from guatemala at 14 years old years. It is not me in the system that he used to make the sculpture is to take a direct mold of the.

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I am interested in the gestures, right and in the moment, is where we are sharing that moment and also learning from the experiences that we have had in this country and then the mold is made and all the metal casting is done and all that and.

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Let's say, of course, the model or the model is that is the face, but what is around? What is around the face of the person that is already your ideas, your creation.

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And sometimes what is the g3? Not the extension of the head of the person.

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Are based on mythology either mayan mythology, true inca, depending on where the person is so for me, it is necessary to learn about the trajectory of the person so that I get inspired and create a narrative of the.

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This piece, if I, don't know anything about the story, I didn't know its story, but the first impression I had is wow. It seems it seems like an an mayan or.

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Or even inca non south america cestro, it looks like one of our ancestors. That is the.

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It gave me yes, and it looks like someone very as if it had a social position within that organization, and that.

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Standing up to people that it.

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Is very beautiful, very.

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The material you used for this sculpture in.

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Bronze bronze, bronze and recycled wood.

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Talk now about this.

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You think we have here.

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They spoke clearly, and this piece was made with cast iron iron, and the symbols that are here will continue to be.

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To with the god of corn,, not Mayan, mythology, well,, that is.

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Idea of , also giving height to the person who.

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Posing,, not especially with the immigration issue and trying to elevate or elevate ourselves, not to.

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Higher place because.

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Our roots are beautiful, they.

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Are beautiful and We shouldn't take care.

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Of it and let what.

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Happens is that when we got here, we went through those hard times and we have to build something to overcome it., reviving.

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The mask went to educate us, she erases.

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Us- and we believe that then many of us believe that by denying our culture our roots, we have.

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We are going to integrate into the new society, but what we do not realize is that what we bring as our tradition, customs, art culture, is what we are going to enrich the now.

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Stable new society- and that is the idea of spreading that message- that we do not forget the truth and that we do not fall into the trap. Wilfredo.

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As an artist as a writer I, imagine that you have exhibitions, you have done exhibitions and If so,. Where have you had exhibitions and if someone can go to see your work, somewhere, yes,.

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Well,, it has had many exhibitions during your stay. Thank.

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You,, it is true,.

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In several galleries, I have also exhibited internationally, and two years ago, I went to Korea to exhibit. true, and this was based on a public art project, and there are also sculptures of mine that can be seen in For example, in silver sprint,, in a sculpture in downtown silver spring. That.

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There you can see it 24 hours a day and that's the important.

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Thing we're going to go and take a picture there.

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Now and there's the sculpture, that's what I like about art public that you have there? There is access all day, no.

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In the environment, ok, but I have been very successful in terms of exhibiting in a gallery out here.

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For people who are thinking or contemplating pursuing a career in the art in a traditional way, there is an erroneous conception in our Hispanic culture, where it tells you dare to face art friend you are going to starve. That is like the conception that exists at a traditional level. No, because painting you will not get.

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Is not a lucrative profession, that is,, you are not going to become a millionaire unless you already have a certain reputation,.

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What advice do you have for those young people who want to pursue a career in the a rte and that their parents are opposing that? To that idea, and.

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There they are right because that's how it is if they exist or in our culture. It is this idea that it is very difficult to be an artist and it is very difficult to achieve success.

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But if we base ourselves on our culture, And true tradition,, you mentioned it yourself that when we go to Latin America, we realize that the development of our culture was based on art.

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We cannot escape from six.

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That aspect, not from music, the kitchen, not the design, everything is in our tradition, and the mistake is that we forget no yes and well for me that the message would be to change in the homes that mentality that, if someone has the talent and wants to study art right and for me that is You must support it, because the other part would be that the person is going to study, something that they do n't just search for it, right, and they spend their whole life, right,, trying to achieve something that they don't want, and suddenly they get a job downstairs and he works all his life in that job and he is not happy.

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I think. The idea is that if the person has that interest, throwing.

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Himself out is throwing himself.

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In because there is always a price to pay I, don't know for me that it is better to get up every day and say well I'm ready to go to work or want to go to work to be there. What do I do I, don't want to go to work. Don't touch me I'll. Tell you.

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That this feeling for 20 or 30 years does not subside.

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It's time for us to change that mentality and support the new youth. What you.

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To develop careers within art, because it's so big, it's.

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For me, it's good if we go to the Maya, if we go not the Incas and we see that all those cultures were were and were very successful in what is sculpture, music, poetry,. Not writing.- I have to look back,, not see the past and rely on that and continue spreading those traditions and to add or that we are living in a time, not now that art is in everything,, not to mention a telephone, right? The telephone.

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We use,, in addition.

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To having technology, is well full of art,, not if all those companies that design these telephones or technological things need artists who.

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Working within the work and.

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I already touched on two things here: that I loved the first, the theme of happiness.

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Do what makes you happy? Because what makes you happy makes you rich? Yes, yes,.

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Yes, that is to say.

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What is it the purpose of life really.

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Another topic that you touched on is how art and technology is a marriage that is getting better and better. It is inseparable. It.

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The two are getting together, mingling even more, and you mentioned it, a cell phone has a lot of art. Maybe one who does not have an artist eye does not see it, but.

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See this art and I think that another thing that you said between the lines is.

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Through art, because you have mentioned in n ur story, our roots, art transforms communities and transforms lives. If it.

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Has great transforming power, for example, with these pieces that you are narrating a story? You are transforming the lives of these people and you are transforming the perception of other.

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Who He says nothing about immigrants through the back door,? Don't wait here, their.

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Is honor and dignity,, so I think the parents make it very clear to them if any of their children have this tendency towards art, support what they.

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Support- and there are many.

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Programs- and we are going to talk specifically about the program in which you currently work in the community college. They have talked about that. We have already talked about here in this show. There are many kids who, unfortunately, are undocumented, etc., and they say nothing and I will not be able to continue, but we already fixed that situation with the college there, something that can.

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Be done specifically.

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Now, let's say that the boy has already fixed that You want to enter the program, of.

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Specifically in the department that you work,, what are the.

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That are taken to enter this program, well,.

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Well, starting, I want to tell you that the school is also narrating,. It has a program called forward, right,.

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Which I participate,? It has been separated from the art program, a bit,. But it is really related because let's say that the student who is already leaving high school.

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And can apply to the program, right,, let's say to the date that I have the date of July It's true,. The program from July to August is normally two.

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Weeks in July and August or.

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Completely free but the students have to.

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Be there for those two weeks.: they learn not only art, literature, mathematics, not so that they have an idea of how the school works and also.

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They know people in the administration for financial law.

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And other people who also work and who have had success in the Latino community, those two weeks I think are important because there they learn how to apply and how to navigate the real college in As for art, right,. What does the student mean,, let's say in high school,, has had an experience where they already have an inclination to the arts,. It can't be video,, it can be game design,, not from virtual games, ok,. It can be photography,, let's say, it can be cinema,.

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We still have a true film program, video film graphic design to the design of the web of the social network.

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We already have so much discipline and that the student does not necessarily have to decide at the moment, but they can talk to a counselor and thus the counselor guides them in what area they are going to dedicate themselves. No.

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Excuse wilfredo these.

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That you just mentioned are under the department of arts and humanities. Already.

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He, what is of the programs, the degrees that they can receive, are within the visual art, not, although of the department of visual art. That is, that is to say that we are under.

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The umbrella of the humanities, ok, so, as I mentioned, there are many opportunities.

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Let's say a student can take a two-year degree, let's say an example of graphic design. Ok,.

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Years they can already work with that with that degree, but if they decide to continue to get a master's degree or to take two more years at a non-four year college, they can transfer that degree and only do two more years in a school to get a design baccalaureate. But if they can work with that degree already at the end of the program, narrating even.

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If I say the basics is, that would be the two years the.

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Two years, if they.

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Want to continue, they can do it for four years.

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In another, in another.

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In another university and there he obtains his degree and if he wants to continue from there onwards, he can.

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Obtain master's degrees or.

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Do a master's, degree,, a doctorate, correct,.

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That is the limit, yes,.

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But if they can work immediately,, it.

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From photographer, graphic design,, right, video to cinema,.

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Or network design.

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With the specific situation of sculpture., You have had students who want to dedicate themselves only to that to be sculptors and if.

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We don't have another program,, what is it? It's called studio art.

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Studio, art and this program is open;.

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For example,, that was what I did,, except for a study program in art, ok, with.

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Concentration in sculpture,, let's say.

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Then, and I continued and got a master's degree, and in the end,, concentrating on sculpture,, nothing else, that.

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Can decide with the study of art and art.

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Which? Route? Which route.

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Do you want, or are it to take, that is already very flexible and well? There are other programs that are specific, not that it is video visual art, as it is called video, eo, graphic design and.

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Photography completely, it was.

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Completely not the program that the art department is really not because the work there I do.

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Like that- and it was one of the qualities that attracted me.

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Apply to work in narrating and it.

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Is just here it is in our county. We.

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The children who reside here from the county.

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Apply as residents of the county of an orando wilfredo.

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Is fine if the families have questions or the children have questions about this program that they contact you at the email address that we are putting here or you do not know. If Is there someone else, they can call at school?.

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Let's say the program is specifically in front of the summer: page, yes,. It's.

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A real bridge,, the.

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Summer bridge is the program is coordinated by Samuel Cordero, right,, the power of the telephone, of.

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Course, in case the telephone.

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Is 4 10, 777, 25 30 and the name of samuel cordero, and he is the one who coordinates the program ahead and I think it is a program that is specific for Latin American students, right,, and it is a great benefit because we have already had 89 years of doing this program.

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Many students have come out of this program who have already graduated from grabbing community.

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Of course, and who are working in the area and there.

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Students who have decided to go to a four-year university and who are also graduates. We are very happy with.

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Right but as for the art program itself, they can contact me perfect.

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Wilfredo, what do you think when one He has a good time, time flies and time has run out,.

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To have to invite you to a second program, because I think there are many more things to talk. About, thank.

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On the program and I hope you can be here next time,.

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Well, Thank, you very much once again for inviting me.

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With pleasure. Thank, you very much for seeing us in an educational talk and see you next time. n.

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