Bridging Past and Future
Claudia Bernardi and the School of Art and Open Studios in Perquin
By Hannah Chalew
Claudia Bernardi is an Argentinean painter. She arrived in El Salvador as part of a team conducting exhumations of mass graves. Year after year, she returned, becoming more engrossed in the community. In 2005, she founded the School of Art and Open Studios in Perquin to foster artistic growth and community development projects within this traumatized town. This is one of two perspectives of Claudia Bernardi’s story, as told by an up-and-coming muralist.