The Collage Club Workshop

While studying advertising at university, I started picking up gigs as a photographer. That instantly sparked my passion for visual language—photography, video, painting, all of it.One day on my way home from uni, I noticed a pile of old, vintage Ecuadorian magazines left in a corner on my street. I couldn't just leave them there, so I took them home. That same week, I set up a casual collage session for my housemates and a few close friends.It quickly turned into a Thursday night ritual. It became so popular that friends started inviting their friends, and every single week someone new would show up. For two and a half years, we hosted these "collage club sessions" right in our dining room.Eventually, we outgrew the house and moved into a bigger space that we transformed into an independent cultural center dedicated to the arts—spanning dance, collage, drag, poetry, and more. We named it La Nube Casa Cultural. From there, the collage club kept growing, expanding out of our space to hold sessions at universities, museums, pubs, and art galleries.Why I love teachingI see teaching as a two-way street, a horizontal process. Traditional education often relies heavily on hierarchy, which has its place, but I prefer a human, one-to-one, equal exchange of information. When you approach it that way, you end up learning just as much as the person you are teaching. That constant, mutual discovery is exactly why I love it.A little more about me & my journeyI’ve always been someone who wears many hats. Beyond visual arts, theater, Latin dance, and drag performance have been major passions of mine.Running La Nube Casa Cultural really honed my ability to produce events and build genuine community around them. Over the years, we connected with art teachers and creative collectives from all over the world. A proud milestone for us was producing the very first ballroom events and voguing competitions for the local queer community in 2020. Through that work, we collaborated closely with national entities as well as international art collectives, creating spaces where people could truly connect and express themselves.