Ana Rodríguez Castillo

Talk Title: “On Originality of Ideas: Breaking Rigid Concepts of Authorship from the Perspective of the Art World”

Ana Rodríguez Castillo is an artist, art historian, art educator, and, in general, a highly inquisitive person. She received her MFA from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, where she was born and raised. After years of working in Madrid as an art educator and cultural manager, Ana moved to Lima, Peru, where she worked at the Ministry of Education in the division of Art, Culture and Physical Education and coordinated several national educational initiatives. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2016 and was employed in the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Pittsburgh working as the coordinator for the Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh project and as part of the curatorial team at the university Art Gallery. Later she worked as the Arts Project Coordinator at The Frick Pittsburgh museum. Currently, she lives in Orlando, FL and works in her home studio focusing on her art practice and research. Ana arrives at her art from a very historical-based perspective and studies historical artists’ materials and techniques and the social history of colors.