Last September this blog featured a big article about our budding friendship with Roberto Corradini, the Italian artist and mosaic-master, and his wonderful school in Mata Oscura. Since then, plans have moved forward and there is exciting news.
Roberto spent this last weekend at the ICBIE, where he worked with our great art teacher Geisiel (and some assistants) to finish a new mosaic on the wall of the bathrooms at the back of the Institute’s front patio. The inauguration (and inevitable party) will be the next ICBIE event, and it will be particularly important because it also celebrates the opening of Roberto’s new school in Salvador. In fact, he seized an opportunity to transfer operations from the isolation of Mata Oscura to the city of Salvador, having found a beautiful location in buildings next to the St. Anthony church, up near Barra.
Everyone at the ICBIE is delighted to have Roberto, and his school, closer to us. He is rightfully proud of his operation, and we take this opportunity to show his wonderful new facilities, where, starting today, his first mosaic classes are beginning (the painting classes started last week). And we invite all our friends to investigate his laudable work by visiting the site of the Associazione Meu Brasil Onlus that supports it.
