2024 – Lecture “Again Commons – Weaving its feminine territory”
II Cyclées festival, at Artivistas gallery in Paris
Conference about female emancipation through the medium of textiles, combining aboriginal and academic artistic approaches. Over the course of an hour, she presented her artistic references, including references of the feminine archetype of indigenous weaving practices in Latin America, and modern and contemporary artistic such as Gego, Lygia Clark and Cecilia Vicuña.
2023 – “Un cuerpo – Un espacio”
III Scenic Arts Latin festival of Open Scene Orlando. Online
Facilitator of the 90-minute online lecture for the 3rd edition of the festival. Judez has presented her research linking the kineticism and geometric abstraction of the visual arts with contemporary trends in the performing arts. The presentation lasted 60 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of questions.
2023 – Participative Construction of the Art Installation Eroded Heritage
Lycée Professionnel Schuman Perret. Le Havre
Two-hour “clay modeling” workshop for SEGPA students at Collège Eugène Varlin in Le Havre. This workshop contributed to the collaborative construction of the installation “Héritage Érodé”, addressing its social and pedagogical dimensions linked to the concept of territory and aiming to build new chains of solidarity. Through models and samples, we explained the artwork and the forms to be represented in clay, while encouraging students to express their individualities.
Credits : Isabel Judez et Iga Vandenhove
2018 – 2020. Textile Sculpture Workshops
Contemporary Art Museum of Panama (MAC Panama)
Fundación Alemán Healy
Allegro Gallery
Inspired by the concept of community life of pre-Columbian indigenous peoples, Isabel Judez co-founded the artistic collective “Not Common Girls” in Panama in 2018. This group reinterprets the ancestral tradition of weaving circles, incorporating a dimension of female emancipation and examining the links between memory and gender inequalities. Through the creation of sculptures and textile installations, as well as workshops and round-table discussions during weaving sessions, the collective encourages women to reconnect with their creative desires within the academic framework of contemporary art. These meetings have served as a platform to discuss urgent feminist issues and to embark on a quest for individual and collective female identity.
2019 – Creative Process and Textile Art. 10 hours at Fundación Alemán Healy, in collaboration with The Not Common Girls (FundAHrte) – Panama.
2019 – Contemporary Weaving. 3 hours in collaboration with The Not Common Girls at Allegro Gallery, Panama.
2018 – Weaving the Layers of the Earth. 3 hours, in collaboration with The Not Common Girls, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Panama (MAC Panama).
They created sculptures and installations, having solo exhibitions at the Alliance Française du Panama, the Allegro Gallery, Its Art Gallery, as well as commissions from Saatchi Art, Tantalo Hotel, Dekel Holdings and Selina Hostels.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2016 – Academic Course Mentor
Tecnológico de Monterrey – Government School. Online
“Diploma in Urban Growth: Challenges and Solutions – How to Achieve Sustainable Use of Urban Land”
TEC Monterrey | May 2016 – Sept. 2016
Diploma focused on the efficient use of urban planning policies and instruments to manage the growth of cities with sustainable, efficient and equitable results. After excelling as a student in the course, I was invited by TEC Monterrey to lead the 11th course, which focused on challenges faced by developing countries. My responsibilities included providing feedback to the students on their projects and reporting to the program coordinators. The course had an enrollment of 40 students.