S3 E2 | Colectiva La Emancipada | Ecuador | Visual Arts

Transcripciones/Transcripts: Aymara, English, Español, Guaraní, Português, Quechua

In this episode of Gestoras, we speak with Colectiva La Emancipada—Ibeth Lara Pazmiño, Tania Lombeida Miño, and Pamela Pazmiño Vernaza—three Ecuadorian artists who founded their feminist art collective in 2009 to challenge the marginalization of women in art spaces, academia, and official discourse. Coming together as recent graduates from Ecuador's Central University Faculty of Arts, they recognized the absence of female references in their training and the difficulty of accessing exhibition spaces without connections, so they created their own platforms for visibility and self-organization. Their work led to the creation of Arte Mujeres Ecuador in 2012, a hybrid gathering that has evolved from showcasing emerging Ecuadorian women artists to becoming a regional platform that includes Latin American artists across career stages, incorporates feminist curators, honors posthumous artists, and combines exhibitions with educational programming—all while navigating the challenges of securing resources and building feminist cultural management practices without established precedents or references in their field.