By Rolando Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Rolando Aguilar was born in the year 1957. He studied at the Municipal School of Plastic Arts of Quetzaltenango. He has presented personal exhibitions and participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Quito, Ecuador, Taiwan, Norway, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Canada. He was director of the Regional School of Art "Humberto Garavito", of Quetzaltenango. He has won Gold and Bronze glyphs at the Art Paiz Biennial (1980, 1982 and 1984) and two awards at the Arturo Martínez Contest.
Efrain Recinos Cultural Center paid a special tribute a Quetzalteca arts character, The teacher Rolando Aguilar, who has worked for 30 years as Director of the School of Arts Humberto Garavito. He has taught many artists who are now well known both nationally and internationally.
He has had the opportunity to study arts in different centers, among which are mentioned:
Lic. In visual arts of the USAC
Political Science Studies at the Faculty of Political Science at the Rafael Landívar University (2004)
He has also studied film in France for several years. He has participated in different courses and training workshops on general pedagogy, pedagogy of art, Folk Art, plastic and scenic, ceramics, human relations, snow sculpture, choreographic design and others.
He has done personal studies in different museums, Superior School of Artistic Training in Mexico City, School of Arts of Basel (Switzerland), and National Institute of Fine Arts in Paris, France.
Creator and Director of the Academy of Art of Children's Villages
Co-founder and Director of the Regional Art School of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in the city of Quetzaltenango
Founder and Director of Dance Jun Batz
He tells that in the SOS villages the students won prizes nationally and internationally and were able to exhibit their works in different countries of Europe and Asia, accompanying some of them. At an auction organized for this school, teachers of the stature of Efraín Recinos, Elmar Rojas...
Category
1970s Modern Rolando Aguilar Art
