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Forecast of the Future
Objectives To build a school that will provide space for teaching activities, a library and audiovisual materials, and a gallery. a. To attract good teachers knowledgeable in Maya history and to collaborate in joint programs with the Museo Ixchel and the Museo Popol Vuh in Guatemala city. b. To provide classes in painting and the history of art to local students and to students from surrounding villages. c. To attract students and visitors from other countries who will be offered short term courses and who will be able to pay enough so that local children can be taught without charge. The Academy and its associated art gallery will be revenue producing and self-sustainable within less than three years from sales and paying students. It is hoped that the artists and artisans trained at the institution will become self-supporting and that they will represent an important resource for the community. We expect to be teaching on the average 30 young students and thirty adults per semester, and to attract initially about 15 to 20 foreign visitors per season. Where We Are Now The Academy has been given a plot of land to build on by a Chichicastenango Maya, Don Miguel Leon Ignacio, a gift we estimate at $35.000. We have received a most generous offer of advice and assistance By Victor J. Cohen of Pemueller y Cohen, one of the most prestigious architectural firms in Guatemala. Victor Cohen is one of the main designers of the Museo Ixchel in Guatemala. Construction of the school will start in November 2000. Project Guggenheim:The Heritage Museum Program is committed to pay the up front expenses within the current budget estimate for the construction of the building to insure its completion by July 2000. Don Miguel Chan Juarez, Executive director of The Fundacion Centro Cultural Y Asistencia Maya,CCAM of Chichicastenango, has written to us at the Heritage Museum Program asking for our assistance and promising all the help the Fundacion Centro Cultural is able to provide. The Academy seeks funds in order to complete construction, purchase art materials, books for the library and a slide projector. If these objectives can be attained then program can be launched this summer. Income from the sales of paintings, crafts, and from tourists participating in classes is expected to increase in the fall and should be sufficient to support the Academy. We plan to have arrangements with individual instructors and institutions for teaching about Maya art, architecture and culture at the Academia completed by the end of June,2000. Art classes both for children and adults will start in our temporary building this spring and will be continued in our new quarters. One section of the building will be reserved as an apartment in order to have visitors and guest stay on the premises. The apartment will be income producing
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