La contribución del Instituto Superior Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador al escenario de las Artes Visuales de la ciudad de Guayaquil en el siglo XXI

Abstract

The research emphasizes an evaluative analysis about the contribution of ITAE to the Visual Arts scenario in the city of Guayaquil during this century and, especially, analyzes its formative processes and assesses their contributions to the development of the Visual Arts during ITAE’s decade of experience in teaching Fine Arts. This study opts for a theoretical-methodological strategy and its qualitive orientation allows to consider ITAE as object of study. Consequently, it advocates a flexible and interactive design research that allows the construction of knowledge and the insight analysis related to the context that generates its own investigation. The main findings demonstrate how ITAE has turned into a high performance institute within the Ecuadorian higher education scenario, showing strength in training, researching and community outreach. The artistic-pedagogic processes of the Institute have achieved to articulate the Contemporary Arts polyvocality and the forward-thinking. ITAE has produced a never-seenbefore generation of artists in the local context, thus becoming a benchmark for Arts teaching in Ecuador.