CHAVÓN La Escuela de Diseño consolidará sus carreras de Bellas Artes y Cine en Santo Domingo, y mantendrá sus programas especiales nacionales e internacionales en el campus de La Romana.
Santo Domingo, R.D. Junio de 2020. CHAVÓN abre un nuevo ciclo en su historia institucional al ofrecer las carreras de Bellas Artes y Cine en la capital dominicana bajo la misma filosofía basada en la creatividad artística, el aprendizaje, la actividad profesional y la expresión cultural.
Afiliada a Parsons School of Design desde su concepción en 1983, CHAVÓN se suma al movimiento de la energía urbana y la innovación. El Rector de La Escuela, Stephen Kaplan, afirma, “Hoy más que nunca, mantenemos el compromiso de dar continuidad a lo que hemos construido; así como el deseo de seguir formando a nuestros estudiantes bajo nuestros acostumbrados estándares de calidad académica. Nos permite seguir construyendo juntos una nueva era”.
Con la excelencia que caracteriza a esta institución pionera en su área, esta evolución permitirá conectar sus programas con la comunidad artística, vinculando la actividad académica a la industria creativa local e internacional. De igual forma, CHAVÓN continuará colaborando con su misión educativa en Altos de Chavón, a través de programas especiales, talleres y actividades culturales en el campus de La Romana.
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Estimada comunidad chavonera:
La salud y bienestar de nuestros estudiantes, facultad y empleados es nuestra prioridad.
Atendiendo a la creciente preocupación con el COVID-19, hemos suspendiendo docencia a partir del lunes, 16 de marzo hasta el domingo 22 y como medida adicional, hemos solicitado a nuestro equipo administrativo que trabaje de manera remota. Por seguridad y prevención los recintos educativos de La Romana y Santo Domingo permanecerán cerrados hasta nuevo aviso.
Tomando en cuenta la situación cambiante y comportamiento del virus, estaremos monitoreando su desarrollo para determinar nuestros próximos pasos.
Durante este tiempo, nuestro equipo está trabajando y disponible para responder cualquier pregunta y/o inquietud mediante las siguientes vías de comunicación:
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Caribbean Art Initiative is pleased to announce that Otto Berchem is the inaugural artist to receive the residency at Altos de Chavón in the Dominican Republic. The residency has been made possible through the generous support of Casa de Campo, La Romana and will take place in March 2020.
Jason Kycek, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Casa De Campo commented “We are delighted to be working with Caribbean Art Initiative and are very much looking forward to welcoming Otto Berchem to Altos de Chavón.
Partnering with artists from around the globe is an important part of the school’s work and we are pleased that he will be joining us on this journey.”
While CHAVÓN The School of Design has nurtured artists both locally and from abroad for generations, and Casa de Campo has for years welcomed guests to its tropical seaside villas, this partnership within a shared, picturesque site marks a key connection between the nation’s creative and hospitality industries. Through this partnership, Casa de Campo strengthens its social impact on the Dominican community, showcasing its support for the arts and education both within and outside its immediate surroundings.
“This is a fantastic and meaningful partnership, and it shows how tourism industries around the region stand up for culture and heritage,” notes Albertine Kopp, founder and director, Caribbean Art Initiative.
Berchem will engage with the local art school, through participation in lectures and workshops designed to facilitate a dialogue between the students. Since its founding in 1981, the Artists in Residence Programme at CHAVÓN The School of Design has welcomed over 200 artists from all over the world to learn and create alongside local classmates. Courses are taught in Spanish by a retinue of distinguished professionals, headed by a Parsons-trained Dean, and coupled with invaluable networking opportunities with visiting lecturers and resident artists.
Otto Berchem was born 1967 in Milford, Connecticut and currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia. Berchem’s practice explores social and visual codes, focussing on the relationships between language, architecture, history, and poetry; interacting with past experiences, as well as specific sites within his current context of living in Colombia. Living with this nation’s severe political and social contradictions, and submerged in a continent constantly shaken by international and local interests, Berchem’s perception of conceptual thinking has been contaminated by an experimental and complex notion of Modernity. With his recent work, the artist continues his exploration of signs, human relationships and codes, through the creation of a chromatic alphabet. Berchem has been exhibited internationally and his work is housed in private and public collections in the Netherlands, Spain and Italy among others.
Beginning with the September 2019 semester, CHAVÓN’s Santo Domingo campus will offer a Two-Year major in Interior Design. Graduates of this program are prepared to work in residential and / or commercial design where they may crate everything from elegant homes to the insides of stores, factories, offices and even airplanes. Click here for a full description.
Ronald Sasson, the renowned Brazilian product designer, gave a master talk on “New Trends in Contemporary Furniture” at the Santo Domingo campus. He has received more than 26 international awards including 7 A’Design Award Italy, 6 Good Design Award Chicago, 4 German Design Award Nominee, 3 IF Design Award Germany, 1 Restaurant & Bar Award England also 1 the Design Prize of The Casa Vogue Brazil 18, and the Prize of the Museum of the Brazilian House.
Felipe Taborda, Brazilian graphic designer, visits CHAVÓN The School of Design in order to have a workshop with the students of the School. A graduate of PUC / RJ, and of film and photography at the London International Film School (England), Taborda will also teach the workshop “From where ideas come”, an experience to understand the creative processes from which ideas arise, creativity and original thought.
Since 1990 Felipe has his own studio dedicated mainly to the cultural, editorial and photographic area. His work was selected by St Johns University, New York, for the individual exhibit “Another Point of View”, an extensive retrospective of his 30 years of graphic work.
Kamalky Laureano, a Chavon graduate of Fine Arts and Illustration was ranked 3rd on Buzzfeed.com’s list of hyperrealist painters.
Ivy Hickam, artist who holds a BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University and a MFA from the New York Academy of Art, described on her blog the magical experience during her stay in CHAVÓN The School of Design. Ivy participated as an artist in residence and taught the course “Engraving, Figurative Monotype” during the International Summer Program of 2014, under a cooperation between the New York Academy of Art and the CHAVÓN, that takes place every year in La Romana campus and brings together international artists and designers. Click here to see the blog.
CHAVÓN The School of Design and world-renowned organization, Davidoff, are joining forces in the development of an artist in residency program under the scope of the “Davidoff Art Initiative”, in a studio designed by Architect Adolfo Despradel, a graduate of the Fine Arts & Illustration program at the School of Design. Under this agreement, both institutions supported contemporary artists and art organizations with the intent of promoting cultural interchange in the Caribbean and global art in general.
This initiative marked the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Altos de Chavón, and of art in the Dominican Republic. The Project hosted the visit of visual artists for a period of ten weeks, in which they had the opportunity of coming into contact will the cultural community of the country, students of the School of Design and adjacent regions.
The first five international artists that participated in the program were: Alia Farid from Puerto Rico, Nuria Montiel from Mexico, Cathleen Mooses from the United States, Mathilde Rosier from France and Soledad Salamé from Chile.
Nominated by an international network of professional artists and selected by the Davidoff International Advisory Board, these five artists that inaugurated the initiative represent a diversified series of practices and backgrounds. All shared a deep interest in relating with the social and cultural aspects of the Dominican Republic.
For the seventh consecutive year, the Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation presents ”Art CHAVÓN 2017”: a charitable event whose main objective is to raise financial resources for the scholarship fund of the CHAVÓN The School of Design, offering the public the opportunity to acquire the artistic work developed by students and other local and international artists. Stephen Kaplan, director of the school, invites us to go “Back to the Future” this wonderful activity that will take place here in our very own “Artists Village” Altos de Chavón the 29th of Marzo at 6:30pm.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Ann Parker’s iconic, hand-printed photographic images of exotic locales, including her and Avon Neal’s adventures in and around the Dominican Republic, are just the beginning. There’s a multitude of students’ precisely detailed geometric color studies in gouache and tempera. You’ll find shimmering portraits, as well as Gaspar Mario Cruz’s legendary twin folk-figure totems carved in the 1950s from two massive Dominican mahogany trees, a bequest of Francine Parnes, whose father purchased them after the artist stunned the Santo Domingo art world with these works at the 1963 Biennial.
And that’s just the beginning of this year’s Art CHAVÓN—the ultimate potpourri and a bit of back to the future. Not merely something for everyone, there’s everything for everyone: whatever your predilection, the taste level is undisputable. Figure studies from the 1930s retrieved from archives of studio work are here, as are Roberto Copa’s idiosyncratic drawings of fanciful butterflies and sea creatures, and recent student works—many of them figurative, as in years past, but so charmingly fresh, so full of youthful energy that they seem to dance in their frames before our eyes.
This year, Art CHAVÓN includes works from previous years’ exhibitions that miraculously went unbought, so strong that they begged for a new audience. There are the leaf mosaics and petal paintings of Frank Lara, who took this year’s first-prize in Diario Libre’s best contemporary artist competition, an accolade that now includes an invitation to show his work in a New York gallery. You’ll discover playful work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Torres; decorative, color-drenched paintings and sculptures by Fernando Tamburini; silk-screen works by a Danish artist in residence; and ceramic heads, torsos, and figures that recall the rich history of figurative sculpture from Giacometti to Lachaise. In contrast, there are nonobjective three-dimensional pieces, works of German and Caribbean expressionism, and objects, antiquities, folk art, and more. There are landscapes, seascapes, “skyscapes,” and views of CHAVÓN. The work is often derivative of great art and equally often unexpectedly frank and new. Some of the visual, conceptual text of the artists’ messages can be read in an instant, while others are full of ambiguity and mystery, drawing you into their worlds of color and texture.
The 2017 Art CHAVÓN exhibition opens March 29th. and is a show not to be missed. Bring your checkbook or credit card, because proceeds from the sale of these works go to support this year’s Fine Arts students who are unable to pay tuition and who need the vote of approval your purchase of an Art CHAVÓN piece confers. And beyond that good deed is the serendipity of having, here in your own picturesque “back yard,” an art institution and an art bazaar like no other.
The show will be on view at The Altos de Chavón Gallery until April 30th.
Last February, CHAVÓN The School of Design received the visit of Kosuke Kawaura, President of NIKON LATAM and Director of Marketing and Planning for NIKON INC. CHAVÓN is currently the only school in Las Américas that maintains an alliance with this prestigious international brand.
We are grateful to Nikon Latam executives and their local representatives, Visión del Caribbean for their support.
Génesis Valenzuela and Nelson Miguel Batista, current film students, took first and second place in the International Short Subject Competition at the XIII International Festival of Children’s Film, with their animated short films “Industrialized” and “Manu,” respectively.
Diana Gissel, Fashion Design 2015, was named Emerging Designer for her collection “Nell’Ombra,” which she presented at Dominicana Moda 2018.
Milena Ferder, Film student, won the student contest to design the graphic Identity and the audiovisual campaign against gender violence, a project of the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Women.
Miguel Alcántara, Fine Arts 2015, won the prize at the Young Talent Encounter and the Eduardo Chicharro Painting Medal of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors, in Madrid.
Erik Alfredo, Film student, won the grand prize of the Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival and the International Festival of Independent Film of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, with his short film “Brasil.”
Carlos García, Film student, had his short film “Homo Ludens” chosen as an official selection of the XV International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools “Kinoproba,” in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Carmen Zaiter, a graduate from Communications Design in 2006, won first place in the XXIII Edition of the Ibero-American Health and Pharmacy Advertising Award (Aspid) in Barcelona, Spain.
Joshua Rodríguez, a graduate from Communications Design in 2014, designed the winning poster for the XXII International Book Fair of 2019, to take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Neftali Barett won second place in the 5th. Environmental Film Show.
” En el fondo del mar ” is the name after the documentary created by Neftalí Barett that highlights the importance of corals in the marine ecosystem. Neftalí graduated in Digital Design 2013 and Communications Design 2015. The documentary was the winner of the second place in the 5th. Environmental Film Show
