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Lucina Jiménez takes office as head of the INBA
INBA, one of the most emblematic institutions of Mexico´s cultural policy: Lucina Jiménez
December 05, 2018When Lucina Jiménez took office as general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish), she committed herself to making art and culture a citizen's right.
Accompanied by Edgar San Juan and Natalia Toledo, undersecretaries of Cultural Development and Cultural Diversity of the Department of Culture, respectively, as well as the outgoing director, Lidia Camacho, the anthropologist said it is an honor to be invited by the President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and the Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, to lead the INBA.
She considered this to be a crucial moment for the country, since the Department of Culture, the youngest of all the dependencies of the Mexican State, is expected to emphasize arts and culture as a citizen's right, which places people at the center of public policy and recognizes our country’s culture and arts in all its diversity.
She pointed out that something that identifies Mexico outside its political borders is its culture, so this will be a cultural, social and political change for the country and pointed out that INBA is one of the most emblematic institutions of Mexico's cultural policy.
The Undersecretary of Cultural Development, Edgar San Juan, thanked Lidia Camacho, on behalf of Alejandra Frausto, for her leadership of INBA and welcomed Luciana Jiménez, "a person who inspires and inspires us, due to her ability to convene and the respect she has for the Mexican artistic and cultural community”.
Lucina Jiménez explained that when Carlos Chávez prepared the foundation of this institution, there was always a talking about the need for a Mexico that would enter the world of modernity, but without forgetting its roots, only that he looked for a way to express this not only in the music, but also in the tone itself he established for this institute.
The specialist in cultural policies and sustainable development, education in arts, cultural rights and culture of peace, pointed out that one of her goals as general director will be to dimension INBA as a national institute, to promote a decisive participation of its creators and to emphasize what artistic education is, one of the main points.
The member of the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Policies and Cooperation of the University of Girona, Spain, said that many changes were achieved in the outgoing administration, such as the signing of an agreement with Conacyt and the generation of masters and doctorates, which, she said, will be strengthened soon.
She said that all institutions are formed by the daily work of the people who work there and give them life, and this includes from people who perform the simplest activities to the most complex, sophisticated and specialized. "These are the people who have given INBA its social weight and who today the Department of Culture seeks to strengthen”.
She assured that this is the right moment to thank all the people who work at INBA for their dedication, since it has been part of their lives to build a memory and form several generations of new creators.
In her speech, Natalia Toledo, Undersecretary of Cultural Diversity, welcomed Lucina Jiménez in the Zapotec language, which translation is the following: "We know she will do a brilliant job in this space, because she knows and has an outstanding trajectory. Thank you, sister for your light in this house that illuminates our understanding”.
The new head of INBA indicated that during this administration the voices of teachers, workers, researchers, creators and all the people involved in the artistic life of this country will be heard.
She also celebrated that since the beginning of the transition: "we have found generosity, receptivity, openness and a clear institutional response. The cultural life of our country will not be suspended by political change," she said.
She pointed out that she will assume her role as general director of INBA in a committed, respectful and loving manner.
Finally, Lidia Camacho, accompained by her team, thanked everyone for their collaboration to strengthen INBA.
Lucina Jimenez´s profile
Lucina Jiménez has been an international consultant in cultural policy, culture and development for UNESCO and the OAS, among others, and for several projects in Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, South Africa, Honduras, Guatemala, Spain and the United States.
In 2011 she was appointed UNESCO-Paris Governance Expert for Culture and Development, from where she has advised various governments on new governance schemes for culture as a cultural right and a component of sustainable human development.
She also run the National Arts Center between 2015 and 2017. In 2015 she was appointed Expert of the Committee on Culture of the World Council of United Cities and Local Governments (CGLU, for its acronym in Spanish), based in Barcelona, to advise the cities of Mexico and Merida in the implementation of the new Agenda21Cultura, whose point of view are cultural rights and sustainable development in a regional sense.
For the past 12 years, she has directed the International Consortium Art and School A. C. (ConArte), an association that acts as a network in several cities in Mexico and Spain about issues of cultural rights, education in arts, education for diversity and the culture of peace, within the Mexican educational system and in community levels, in addition to promoting the development of citizen capacities in culture and welfare.
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