Vanesa Cejudo Mejías is a Spanish sociologist, and a researcher and critic of contemporary visual culture. She advocates for the use of art in education, having worked both as an artist and as a professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. She also promotes the work of women in the Spanish art community as a director of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) (the Association of Women in the Visual Arts).
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Early life and education
editCejudo studied sociology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Madrid, earning a bachelor's degree in sociology with a specialty in social psychology in 1997.[1] At the Complutense University of Madrid, she obtained a certificate of teaching proficiency in 2006.[1] Cejudo then studied at the Escuela de Arte La Palma in Madrid, where she trained as a technician in Plastic Arts, Design, and the Applied Arts of Sculpture, earning a higher technical degree in 2007.[1] In 2016, she obtained a doctorate in the faculty of History and Arts at the University of Granada.[2] Her doctoral thesis was supervised by Isidro López-Aparicio (es), and was called La mediación cultural: Mecanismos de porosidad para construir cultura contemporánea sostenible (Cultural mediation: Porosity mechanisms to build contemporary sustainable culture).[2]
Career
editCejudo is a founder of Pensart, a non-profit organization dedicated to cultural mediation.[3] She is also a founder of Exprimento Limón, a group that experiments with ways to teach science, technology and humanities through art.[4] She is the deputy director and art critic at Brit-Es Magazine.[3]
Cejudo has worked, through scholarships from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, in countries including Senegal, Angola, Venezuela and Guatemala.[3] Cejudo has also worked as a professor at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.[1]
Cejudo has been a member of the board of the Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) since 2016, and in May 2020 she became the Vice President of the organization.[5] MAV is a feminist organization that seeks to promote women in the Spanish art scene, in which men have traditionally been overrepresented,[6] and to promote art that centers women and their experiences.[7] An example of an initiative that Cejudo undertook with the organization is advocating that there be gender parity on awards committee in major art contests in Spain; after that was achieved, the group observed that the number of women winning awards also rose.[8]
In 2017, Cejudo and her partners at Pensart launched the project Making Art Happen in both Madrid and London, which aims to demonstrate that art can be used in the classroom as a successful means of teaching other subjects like science and the humanities.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Vanesa Cejudo Mejías" (in Spanish). UNIR. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ a b "La mediación cultural: Mecanismos de porosidad para construir cultura contemporánea sostenible" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ a b c "Author Vanesa Cejudo" (in Spanish). Brit-Es Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "Vanesa Cejudo" (in Spanish). Exprimento Limón. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "Quiénes Somos" (in Spanish). Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "Las mujeres españolas se apoderan del panorama artístico londinense". Agencia Efe (in Spanish). 23 November 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ Martos, David (14 April 2020). "Internet al servicio de la creatividad en plena cuarentena del COVID-19". Radio Cuarentena (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ Muñoz Vita, Ana (18 February 2019). "La paridad, la asignatura pendiente del arte contemporáneo". El Pais (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ Rodriguez Oroz, Amaia (3 March 2020). "Make art happen". Noticias de Navarra. Retrieved 2 August 2020.