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Arturo Araujo CV

Arturo Araujo, MFA, Joined Ï㽶´«Ã½ as an associate professor of Visual Arts. Originally from Colombia, Araujo joined the Jesuits in 1986, earned his bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a master's in divinity from Javeriana University in Bogotá. He came to Ï㽶´«Ã½ to study Visual Arts, and he receives a BA from SU before going on a study at Cornish College of the Arts and then to the University of New Mexico.

He returned to Ï㽶´«Ã½ most recently from teaching at the University of San Francisco. Inspired by nature and by the Work of Rembrandt, Käthe Kollwitz, and Thavor Ko-udomvit, Araujo creates work that expresses a contemporary spirituality combining etching and lithography silkscreen, relief, and digital media. His work has been known in Colombia, the USA, Italy Mexico, and Canada.

Araujo's work is a visual meditation that seeks reconciliation and identity. His expertise is the combination of all print media.