The message transmitted by Fernando Echemendía, director of the music-dance group, and also a professor at the ISA, was precisely not to let the legacy of Cuban art die, and that is what graduates like those of this day are aimed at.

In an interview with Prensa Latina, Ricardo de la Paz Cervantes, graduate of Art Direction and Audiovisual Communication, recognized the need to do genuine work.

“We are encouraged to make social art that precisely reflects and contributes to that bond with people, more so with this feeling of being Cuban,” he said.

The graduate with a Gold Degree also argued that “we have events like the Almacén de la Imagen that due to the energy situation had to be postponed but that is driven by young people in various areas of artistic production.”

“Las islas náufragas” was the work of Cervantes for his graduation speech, and that reflects art from a city with a wide cultural and artistic legacy.

“We have a way of saying things and that makes us proud, like Camagüey, deep and direct, and I am receiving and at the same time giving a lot of love from teachers who have followed that line,” he concluded.

In the words directed to the graduating students, the vice-rector of the institution, Alicia Rodríguez, recalled that “they have been young people who have gone through different challenges and obstacles, therefore I want them to know how to use that knowledge for the common good and the country.”

Founded in 1989 thanks to the will of the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, the Camagüey branch had to date graduated some 390 new artists in modalities such as Music, Art Direction and Communication, Dance Art, in addition to having four honorary chairs.

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