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Ceramist Martha Jimenez Perez wins Award and creation grant

Havana- On the occasion of the Biennial of Ceramics, Sculptures, Installations and Projects, the renowned potter Martha Petrona Jimenez Perez, resident in Camaguey, deserved a Prize and a Creation Grant, given by the National Council of Visual Arts (CNAP).

The award was granted on December 9, 2016, at the National Museum of Cuban Contemporary Ceramics, and Martha Petrona's award-winning work was the enamelled ceramic sculpture named “Equlibrist”, from the “Challenge” series, one of the most controversial of the artist , for its theme. In this sense, in the “Equilibrist”, a woman is perceived assuming challenges and risks, with equanimity and courage, subject to sacrifice, but overcoming it with vehemence and demonstrating her intellectual capacity, her physical integrity and the need to be valued.

Jimenez Perez attended the National School of Art Instructors, in 1965 and she has a degree in Visual Arts (1991), with an extensive work exposed to the public, founder of the Hermanos Saiz Association, her specialty is terracotta ceramic sculptures. She is also a graduate in Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramics and Engraving.

Jimenez Perez has been an art teacher for over three decades and a tutor for the last five years of students who have entered the ISA. She is an Instructor Professor of the Academy of Visual Arts and belongs to the Ibero-American Chair of Plastic Arts and Design ”Fidelio Ponce de Leon” since 1993. She is a member of the Council of Experts of Visual Arts of the Provincial Council of Visual Arts.

The prestigious ceramist directs the children's group “Brush with soul of kiss”, with which she has won numerous awards and made exhibitions in the city of Camaguey.

Her works are in private galleries and collections in Cuba and in different countries, including the United States of America, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, France, Canada, Italy, Greece, Germany, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina.

In the appointment, were, among other personalities, Alejandro Alonso, director of the National Museum of Cuban Contemporary Ceramics; Margarita Gonzalez Lorente, director of the Wilfredo Lam Center; and Teresita Huerta Lozada, Cuban journalist.


Author: Iván Alvarez Abascal
Source: http://www.trabajadores.cu