"CONJUGATE WITH ART EDUCATION MAY REDUCE DROPOUT AND PARENTING YOUNG CHILDREN A": MTRA. ANA ROSA GARCIA, PROMOTING CULTURAL

The cultural promoter Mallorga Ana Rosa Garcia was visiting San Luis Potosi. Among the activities conducted by the visual artist also from Colombia, is a sample of his work presented through an exhibition of two-dimensional and three-dimensional embroidery that was exposed for one month at the Cultural Center Mariano Jimenez, also gave a talk where he shared his experiences as head of the unit there Playful Nogueras community in the municipality of Comala the state of Colima.

It should be noted that the meeting where he shared his experiences with the artistic guild of the capital San Luis, was developed at the Center for the Arts in San Luis Centennial.

The teacher who Mallorga García specializes in the method of free creative expression, in an interview, said the influence in his works is the result of the journey you have made for Latin America, but the couple has been shaped by the memories that flow from craftsmanship.

Mallorga Garcia who has lived for more than three decades in Mexico, which has sustained a passion for teaching, and that it's pleased to be able to train several generations.

Speaking about the work of artist and artisan, the cultural manager also, said: "Unfortunately the line is thin between the artist and the craftsman. There are more creative artisans with more passion, more honest with their creativity, and more knowledgeable, some artists who look with disdain at the viewer.

Management about their work on behalf of a community in the state of Colima, where the main problem was lack of continuity in studies of children and the large percentage of paternity was young, the teacher Ana Rosa Garcia Mallorga, said that was based on the approach of art on par with the basic education curriculum, as could counteract the dropout rate.

"The hardest thing was to establish that the diagnosis was not encouraging, children and youth of the community and at a young age, began to work as masons and barges, and girls and girls in domestic service. Skipped stages of their life, not only physical but also psychological and emotional. The worst happened in the children who had to take on behaviors that were not age-appropriate, such as alcoholism, and early parenthood.

"However, training was a great creative tool to counter this. Along with his academic training, they began to teach violin, theater, music, anthropology, regional theater, visual arts, storytelling and literature. Thus, over a decade, children who started this process and who are now young people established the difference, and the negative percentage that characterized the community has decreased.

"Currently, children in the community of Nogueras, artistic creations have been made in the discipline of painting, that creditors have been more than 25 national awards, as well as one of the jobs he won in 2000 image of a cartel, where convening the Organization of American States (0EA) for its acronym in English, likewise in 2005 an American Association gave him an award in recognition of an arts-based program within a community "

Finally, the teacher Ana Rosa Garcia, indicates that the unit is supported Lúdica of Colima State Government, through its Department of Culture, and the University of Colima, and the National Coordination Council Children's Cultural Development National Culture and Arts.