ABClatino Magazine Year 8 Issue 5 | Page 15

Invitada / Guest: Elisa Pritzker

Fotos por / Photos by Sevan Melikyan

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Artista / Artist: Marielena Ferrer

Curadora / Curator: Elisa Pritzker

Marielena Ferrer is a socially engaged visual artist. Art is a growing component of Marielena’s larger desire to assist people in becoming aware of themselves and their environment as fully as possible.

Originally studying architecture at Central University

of Venezuela, Marielena later earned a certificate of distinction in “Leadership and Empowerment” from Spain’s Polytechnic University of Valencia and a diploma in “Gender Leadership” through the EQUAL Transnational Cooperation Community Initiative of the European Social Fund. She also earned a University Expert Diploma in “Mental Health, Cultural Processes and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Minorities and the Socially Excluded” from the University of Barcelona.

Marielena is currently pursuing her MFA in Sculpture

at SUNY New Paltz, New York State.

HEAR MY VOICE 2021

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