Meet Our Team
Johanna Quiña
Clinical psychologist graduated at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Childhood and Youth at the University of Leeds, UK. Chevening Scholar 2019-2020 and a member of the political organization El Colectivo-Quito. She has worked with vulnerable populations, women, and children survivors of violence.
Valeria Quiña
Ecuadorian company that offers a wide range of accounting, tax, and administrative advisory services. Valeria Quiña, an intern of the company, is a final year student of Business Administration and Marketing at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
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Viviana Quiña
Chemical Engineer with a sub specialization in contemporary art graduated from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Art teacher since 2018 and creator of Vivart.
Our Volunteers
Fernanda
Chamba
Artist, illustrator, engraver. She studied Contemporary Art at the San Francisco de Quito University. She obtained two subspecialties in the areas of Illustration and Sequential Art and Art History. She is interested in reflecting and investigating the relationship between memory, forgetting, and silence. Her line of work is directed to installation, engraving, illustration, painting, and relational art.
Maira
Hidalgo
Graduated in Contemporary Art with a minor in illustration and sequential art from the San Francisco de Quito University. She currently works in illustration, craft paper making and permaculture.
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Sofía Lema
Her work with children focuses on painting, collage, and crafts. Study at ¨Sebad¨ with a specialty in youth ministry. He is currently working on Big Home Cortinas
Shirma
Escanta
Child Psychologist and psychorehabilitation, graduated from the Universidad Central de Ecuador. Facilitator in Art Therapy and Early Stimulation techniques in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founder of Yuyay Guagua- Child Clinical Psychology.
¨Every child is an artist of their inner world¨
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Daniela
Meythaler
Graduated in Contemporary Art with a major in Illustration from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. She has experience teaching painting and drawing classes to children. It seeks to expand its knowledge in child and youth pedagogy to promote creativity and the right of children to play.
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Akira
Kowii
Kichwa otavaleña. Currently, she is studying Clothing Design and Image and Sound Design. She grew up among colors, crafts and embroidery, so she has liked visual expressions since she was a child. Today she lives these expressions from the studio, day to day, and Katichina, her conscious design project.
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David tamayo
Graphic designer and illustrator. He studied Graphic Design and 3D Animation. Specialist in the graphic area both in branding and in advertising pieces. Additionally, he has extensive knowledge of drawing techniques, especially realism. For David, the purpose of art is to be able to express and communicate feelings towards oneself and with others.
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Gabriela Villacís
Graduated in Psychology and Professional Artist since 2012. Winner of the 2017 COCOA award (pencil and graphite) and the 2018 COCOA award (oil), awarded by the San Francisco de Quito University. Since 2018, Gaby works as a private teacher of drawing at Esquivel School of Music and Arts. Since 2019, she works as an art teacher at the Sacred Heart Psychiatric Institute. Currently, she is pursuing her master's degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology at PUCE.
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Annabella Valencia
Final year student of the Visual Arts career at the San Francisco de Quito University. Lover of movement and corporal expression. Capoeira teacher for boys and girls.
Currently, he focuses on working with plants, from conscious eating and making the most of their properties. Additionally, he uses fibers and natural materials within his works so that they are sustainable and friendly with the environment.
Our Partners
Rotaract Club Los Chillos Milenio
It is a space for young people from 18 years old who seek to develop leadership skills through social service in the community of the Chillos Valley. The club is part of Rotary International, a non-profit organization whose common goal is to take action in the community to address different types of problems.
Papelería Hola Mundo
Art and Craft Store located in the parish of Santa Rita south of the city of Quito-Ecuador. Hola Mundo has joined the project by becoming our main supplier of painting materials. Additionally, Ximena Enríquez, owner of the establishment, is a great collaborator in the logistics part of the project.
Telephone number: 0989475528
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Ormiga
It is a collective of visual artists, who in the midst of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, decided to join together to collaborate with small businesses and enterprises through audiovisual production. For them, solidarity must be the new normality.