POST 6 - How to link Art Studies with our personal lives?

Hi classmates!

Today I wanna talk you about something very important to me, the art.

I remember that when I get out from school I didn't know what I wanted to study, but I felt very pressure to study a career as soon as possible, because my classmates were going to do it and also I thought that I needed study something important for being someone in life. However, I realized that studying a traditional career like Architecture didn't make me happy, and in that moment it was when I promised to me study an artist career.

I think that thanks to this reflection I could start a beautiful process of acceptation, which it was very difficult because my mind and my environment followed thinking that study Arts it would be a waste time. With this mentality yet and inside of desperation for my future, I decided study Theatrical Performance, and then I started to pave the way to learn more about me, even to the present. Also I complemented this with a class called ''Pueblos Originarios Hoy: Nuevos desafíos'', where I learned more relating to colonizing process and models that create to our society, therefore myself too. This is important to me because I'm part of a origin people, so this is fundamental for this process of self-knowledge that I started thanks to my art career.

In this way, I believe that art is part of all lives of people that decided to being artist, so it's inseparable of our personal lives, because unintentionally we made art since we were kids. Maybe the form to do this isn't too specific like we learn it in university, but we were expressed that wish in our daily lives in different ways. In my case, when I studied in the school, always I was the girl that participated in each Art workshop and school ceremony, even up to the last year of secondary. So, I think that Art is part of our lives because without this we cannot live.

The possibility to discover what I love it has been enriching to me, for the academic learning and the real self-knowledge. I would have liked that possibility when I was a little girl, but unfortunately the education system doesn't permit and I consider extremely bad that we have to wait until the 21 years old to accept us.

Now I can say that I always had a link with Art, but now I'm conscious of this is what I like and thanks to this I can accept to me.

Thanks for reading me. I hope that at some point in your life you get to really know yourself and you can accept yourself as you are, but always trying to be a better person. A hug for you! 💜