Nuevo equipo de trabajo

Following an intense search in 2008, ProyectArte has added two important new staff members to our team. We’re pleased to announce the hiring of Mara Borchardt to serve as ProyectArte’s Executive Director. Prior to joining ProyectArte, Mara worked for ten years at Crear Vale La Pena, a leading arts group in Argentina. During her tenure at Crear Vale La Pena, including the last five years as Co Executive Director, Mara helped the organization grow from a small group serving dozens of students to an important organization with multiple locations serving hundreds. Mara, who also serves as an advisor to the government of the province of Buenos Aires on its arts programs for young people, will work closely with ProyectArte’s Board, including co-founders Sebastian and Fernando Cwilich and Marina Wagener, to develop and grow ProyectArte’s programs. Also joining the team is Luciana Marino, who joined ProyectArte a few months ago to serve as Program Coordinator for our main scholarship and graduates programs. Luciana is an artist and teacher with extensive experience in arts education, including working on youth arts programs at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Argentina’s leading public exhibition space. These hires, along with longtime ProyectArte Administrator Micaela Herbon and Milciades Sanchez (operations), round out a ProyectArte team we are confident will ensure ProyectArte’s next six years will be even more succesful than our first six.

ProyectArte is also pleased to announce the three new artists that will join our faculty to work with the new class of scholarship recipients. This year’s senior Faculty members are Horacio D´Alessandro y Karina Peizajovich (http://karinapeisajovich.com/), two distinguished Argentine artists who along with assistant faculty member Daniel Scherman will guide our new students. Ernesto Pesce remains in charge of our graduate program. On behalf of ProyectArte, its staff and its students, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank faculty members Hector Medici and Jorge Perrin for the important contributions they’ve made with previous classes of students, and we look forward to their working with other ProyectArte students and graduates in the future.