The art instructor defends the national identity

Randy Marin and the seven female students who took part in the most recent theatrical work. Pictures: Teresa Valenzuela

First art instructors take place with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. They had as temporary home, Havana Libre and Comodoro hotels; likewise, they use some small houses of Miramar neighborhood, in Playa municipality.

Its creation nourished not only the amateur movement in the island, but also, it favored the community art, both in urban and rural areas.

In the year 2000, with the Battle of Ideas in Cuba, the art instructors were reactivated again, as a massive movement in order to empower, above all, in the school environment, the direct work with the kids, develop their creativity, and to contribute the best of the popular art to develop in full dimension.

We may not forget the welfare, happiness and satisfaction that provide the people with different expressions of art. They also contribute to form- from the first grades – students more cultured, who have deep feelings and enjoy themselves fully before an artistic fact.

The José Marti brigade of Art Instructors developed because of the brilliant idea of our Commander-in-Chief: it would include that figure in the national system of education.

After the years, the results were obvious in children and adolescents in the different levels of learning, what is summarized by working in favor of the rescue of traditions, the defense of the culture in each community and neighborhood; likewise, in the cities where they were formed, and where they work.

The project set up in the Cuban society because of the magnitude that supported it related to the enrichment of the spirit and to build up men and women fully happier.

An instructor of art in our time

Randy Marín’s motivation for arts took place since he was a child, when he used to see his family paint and draw with frequency, with that preference and professional enjoyment, when he graduated of ninth grade in the secondary school; he decided to enroll in the art instructor school Eduardo Garcìa Delgado, from Boyeros municipality in Havana.

He belongs to the third graduation in 2008. Now, the twenty-seven-year-old young man works as a professor in the Elio Llerena primary school in Alamar. There he attracts the students to the different artistic manifestations; such as, music, plastic arts, theater and dance.

He considers that an art instructor has to be, above all, human, nice, a person who appreciates everything beautiful, be a good artist and has noble feelings towards his family, friends, and the environment where he lives.

He also said that in the center where he works- with the participation of the students of all grades, he carries out, artistic activities with their participation on allegorical dates, with the aim of motivating teachers and pupils, “We should remember that children love arts, which stimulates their creation, giving them the opportunity to be artists in the future.” He says enthusiastically.

His plans: to be an audio-visual producer; he also wants to study journalism, and why not? His goal is to be a good journalist. Another of his goals is to devise a magazine in the school, with a monthly frequency that attracts teachers and students to the artistic occupation.

To finish, Marin advices the other art instructors of the country that they should work with enthusiasm in the cultural projects they are working on at present; at the same time, they should feel love ever more for what they are doing, without losing their joy and the appreciation for their elected profession.

On the eighteen of the present month the Day of the Art will be held to pay homage to the birthday of Olga Alfonso González outstanding instructor of the manifestation of theater, born in San Miguel del Padrón neighborhood.

Note: Amateur Movement: a sort of campaign for the joining of young people to different manifestations of art followers.