About

a learning journey that constantly motivates me to strive and pursue new and different ways to appreciate the world that surrounds me and reflect that positively to others.

As a third-culture kid ever since I was born I was exposed to a mix of cultures, tastes, smells, and colors that defined my particular way of perceiving the world.  Sometimes this way was not very accepted by the paradigm of “normal” so I constantly had to create different ways to be understood.  This witch was often a challenge and became a power that helped me in my adult years to comprehend how diversity, instead of being a setback, is a great advantage in our globalized world.

My parents originally from Chile were living in Ecuador when I was born and shortly after, before my first birthday, we moved to Brazil. This is interesting to mention because my family would speak to me in Spanish, but I would reply in Portuguese. 

I grew up in several countries Brazil, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Chile. When I finished high school I went to Italy to study fine arts, and then I returned to Chile to finish my studies in Art and was able to understand that my culture and nationality were not only one, but a multicultural, unique, and rich mixture, which made me acknowledge that I could contribute to the world with my particular point of view and could teach and help others that were growing up as I did.

So I chose art as my language of expressing this diversity, and education as a tool to help students express themselves. Education and art in multicultural settings help children realize and represent their own diversity, cultural context, and imagination in their unique particular way, specifically in multicultural and multilingual backgrounds. That is why it’s so important for me to work in international schools where diversity is a powerful component of everyday life, where I can show students how interesting their particular point of view is. These diverse scenarios and ways of understanding life also made me realize how important it is to give children and young adults the liberty and opportunity to explore ways of communicating and developing their problem-solving skills through Visual Arts. Not as a prescribed formula, but as a gateway to the discovery of self and context.

I believe Visual Arts and Art History are as fundamental for apprehension the world as learning Math or Science. The skills that are developed in art class complement the holistic development of individuals that can greatly benefit from the discovery of worlds that represent their uniqueness. In my years as an IB Visual Arts teacher, my students have performed very successfully on their IA’s and EA’s scoring above the world average and 70% pursuing careers related to the field such as architecture, design, and fine arts.

Also, I would like to add that I love adventure and traveling, I enjoy nature, yoga and practice meditation regularly, one of my current and recent visual projects involves creating a recipe book of my own and my family’s traditional recipes and I am creating a virtual art history web.

Together with my daughter and husband, we usually have our art space to paint, draw and create things. We try to go to cultural sites and museums in each country we visit to enrich our spirit. One of my life dreams is to be able to travel the globe and visit as many art museums and historic sites as I can.