Ignacia Biskupovic
Head of Community EngagementMuseo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
Chile
Visual artist and educator. She lives and works in Santiago de Chile. She has participated in various initiatives that link arts and critical pedagogy, including Nube Lab, a workshop that promotes educational experiences using the tools of contemporary art. She also designed and implemented an Editing workshop in the Liceo de Adultos Herbert Vargas Wallis, an educational establishment for adults deprived of their liberty in the Ex Penitentiary of Santiago. She is currently Head of Community Engagement in the Public Programs Area of the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Her research there, both theoretical and practical, explores artistic mediations oriented to community development, through the co-design of programs and activities with the museum’s neighbors. She also works as a professor of the interdisciplinary course “Artistic Practices and Communities” at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado.