Exchange: Ecuador
Social Challenge: Social Inclusion
Artist: Beatrice Glow
Exchange: Ecuador
Social Challenge: Social Inclusion
Artist: Beatrice Glow
Celebration in Imbabura Province. Photo by Warren Talbot.
Social inclusion in Otavalo
Beatrice Glow’s exchange will focus on social inclusion by leveraging new media art to tell stories that shift dominant narratives. She aims to work with a variety of community members, including Afro-Ecuadorian and Indigenous populations, to help pinpoint the ecosystem of challenges they face. Her workshops will be centered on understanding local public policy and the restoration of environmental and community health.
Video by L. Merinio Maldonado.
Community Projects
MAMA CUCHARA
Preserving and sharing traditional knowledge The members of UMAMA Collective are representative of the diverse Kichwa, Mestizo, and...
Warmy Tukushka: Creation through the feminine
Honoring women throughout generations The Warmi Tukushka project stages immersive theater that seeks to raise awareness about the...
YUYAY: Content
Highlighting indigenous workers' histories Yuyay aims to change the collective imagination and reduce the cultural gap between the kichwas and...
YUYAY: Production
Sharing oral histories through an AR mural YUYAY’s “Untold Stories” aims to change the collective imagination and reduce the cultural gap between...
Blog
In the Time of Corn: Harvest and Sustainable Growth
Arriving in Ecuador during the time of corn harvest, I was deeply impressed by the magnificent cornfields. I envision that was what parts of Manaháhtaan (precolonial Manhattan) used to look like. I also was delighted to learn that the companion-planting agricultural...
Activating an Art, Community and Technology Incubator in the Andes
The fierce equatorial rays, crackling fire, rising smoke, floating ashes, cultural protocols with community elders, taytas and mamakuna — these are the constant elements that have accompanied American Arts Incubator — Ecuador since we began in mid-March. We kicked off...
Towards Runificación: Weaving Indigenous Revitalization and Extended Reality
As a daughter of immigrants in Turtle Island (aka North America), I strive to be in allyship to the original peoples and the land and waters that nourish me by activating multisensory storytelling and interdisciplinary art, including sculptural installations,...
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
U.S. Embassy in Quito — Ecuador | Avigiras & De los Guayacanes, Quito 170124, Ecuador | |
Otavalo, Ecuador | Otavalo, Ecuador | Exchange Location |
Otavalo, Ecuador
Exchange Location
U.S. Embassy in Quito — Ecuador
About Our Host Partner, Yarina Casa De Artes
La Casa de Artes, located in a former textile factory in Otavalo, is an arts organization dedicated to preserving indigenous art forms and the Kichwa language. Working primarily in music and dance, they host concerts, music lessons, and various others classes and workshops.
American Arts Incubator is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs developed in partnership with ZERO1.
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