The second edition of the Aurora Awards recognized the talent and artistic creation processes of students from the Visual Arts program at Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), with awards presented to selected proposals from each participating semester.
The Aurora Awards II concluded with the recognition of ten students from the UIS Visual Arts program, whose research and artistic creation processes developed within the academic environment were selected by the jury.
Created by students and aimed at students, the initiative seeks to create spaces for circulation, recognition, and exchange for new generations of artists in Bucaramanga. This second edition brought together 42 students from different semesters of the program, whose proposals were presented as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Casa de la Cultura Custodio García Rovira.
Meet the winners of the Aurora Awards II
The awards were presented according to the semester to which each artistic proposal belonged:
Semester 1: Anny Daniela Joya Patiño Semester 2: María Constanza Narváez Solano Semester 3: Sebastián Rincón (zhaos)
Semester 4: Brayan Stick Triviño Semester 5: Bryan Samuel Acuña Payares Semester 6: Divianh Celis
Semester 7: Génesis Meneses Semester 9: Paula Camila Bautista González
Semester 10: María Alejandra Cortés E. Semester 10: Shalom Stephany Velazco Sánchez
The selection was made by Rosabel Martínez Pinzón, Cultural Coordinator at Centro Colombo Americano, and Milton Afanador Alvarado, artists’ representative and curator at the Museum of Modern Art of Bucaramanga.
A platform for young university artists
Beyond being a competition, the Aurora Awards II seek to strengthen the research, creation, and circulation of art produced within the academic environment. The second edition was curated by Marcell Bohórquez Gualdrón, a seventh-semester student in the UIS Visual Arts program.
The exhibition brought together the proposals of 42 students and offered the public an opportunity to discover the different perspectives, concerns, and artistic languages present in student production at UIS. The exhibition also became part of the open gallery circuit of the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area, expanding opportunities for young artists to share their work with the regional community.
With its second edition, the Aurora Awards II continue to establish themselves as a meeting point for students, the university, cultural spaces, and the public, while highlighting the creative processes developed within the Visual Arts program at Universidad Industrial de Santander.
