Blog 6: Changes to my Study Program
I study Plastic Arts in Universidad de Chile. The Faculty of Arts is one of the poorest in the university, since the university has a central financing system and another that is income from faculties and obviously, as art in Chile is not highly valued, it does not generate much income either. This is why some of the faculty workshops are in very bad condition, becoming even dangerous because they have old machinery, not being well protected from the rain, etc. However, I am aware that compared to other universities, at least in my workshop I had a privileged study space, with large and small presses, an industrial oven, dryers for the prints, etc. What I liked about my study program is that in second year I was able to chose one main workshop (and I had 8 options: painting, sculpting, photography, textile art, ceramics, goldsmith, experimental arts, and mine: engraving). Since then I specialized myself in the engraving workshop, learning lots of techniques like gauffering, impri...
