Browsing II Jornadas “Investigar con los jóvenes: ¿Qué sabemos de los jóvenes como productores de cultura visual?” by Author "García Camón, María Jesús"
(Pamiela - Edarte, 2012) García Camón, María Jesús
My name is María Jesús García Camón, although my students call me “Chusa”.
I teach Art History and the History of Books and Graphic Images in the School of Arts in Pamplona,
northern Spain.
I made contact with the world of graffiti because some of my students practiced it. I wanted to learn from
them and we jointly defined a working approach that led us to prepare graffiti workshops and exhibitions,
some of them elsewhere in Spain. We were able to obtain support from institutions such as the Ateneo
Navarro, Pamplona City Council and, naturally, the School of Arts. The works created were exhibited in
the Citadel of Pamplona and were pioneers in showing graffiti in a place that had only been used for art
exhibitions before.
My students, who come from all kinds of academic disciplines, felt freer and more respected in the School
of Arts. They could also apply what they had learned in different areas –Drawing, Colour, Design, and Art
History– to their urban mural work.
Their work is now related to art: illustration, murals, graphic design...
A new generation of students who have produced graffiti are starting to work with us, their teachers, to
prepare an exhibition in the school. The images will be on display there permanently, as previously happened
with the 1999 exhibition; the images continue to decorate the walls of the school at the spot where
the students most like to meet.
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