{"id":223477,"date":"2015-12-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/cuyamaca-professor-has-a-passion-for-teaching-art\/"},"modified":"2015-12-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:00:00","slug":"cuyamaca-professor-has-a-passion-for-teaching-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/cuyamaca-professor-has-a-passion-for-teaching-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Profesor de Cuyamaca tiene pasi\u00f3n por ense\u00f1ar arte"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Darci Leonard<\/p>\n

Dr. Marie Ramos brings a passion for learning and her local community into her classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a professor, I get to encourage young people to achieve their dreams. It doesn\u2019t have to be in art \u2013\u2013 whether its engineering or in the sciences \u2013\u2013 as long as they do what they love,\u201d said Ramos, a La Mesa resident.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mari Ramos (Courtesy of Senator Joel Anderson’s office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the Art Department Chair at Cuyamaca College, Ramos encourages not only her students but her fellow faculty to \u201cjust go for it\u201d when making their art pieces. At Cuyamaca College, the hallways of the Art Center are covered in various pieces of art created by the faculty for this year\u2019s annual Faculty Art Show. Among the colorful paintings and drawings, Ramos displays some of her own works.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt is how I express myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ramos\u2019 passion for art and expression prompted her to participate in the California Senate\u2019s 2015-2016 Californian Contemporary Art Collection Contest. State Senator Joel Anderson acknowledged Ramos for her beautiful submission and thanked her for her contribution to the art community in his district.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Ramos shares her talent with students and the East County community to encourage everyone to follow their passion,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has been wonderful to get to know her art and her students are lucky to have an enthusiastic mentor like [her].\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ramos understands that not every student who steps into her classroom is an artist, she still believes that they can develop an appreciation for art and be able to do a little of their own. Her biggest goal in educating college students is for them \u201cto be positive and be sure of who they are and what they are doing. Anything can be accomplished if they put their heart and mind to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the first in her family to go to college and earn a degree, Ramos has a special vision for encouraging students to persevere and work hard to achieve a higher education.<\/p>\n

With a vision for growing the art community in East County, Ramos is also passionate about the college\u2019s Annual Spring Garden Festival where local artists have the opportunity to share their contributions with the community.<\/p>\n

In fall of 2016, Cuyamaca College will be putting on its first East County Community Art Exhibition and the art department is looking forward to watching more local artists participate in community events with the help of generous partners like the Friends of East County Arts, Inc.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s through festivals, contests, art shows or her classroom, Ramos continues to encourage the students that she teaches to work hard to achieve their dreams.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013Darci Leonard is a legislative intern for Senator Joel Anderson and student at San Diego Christian College.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Darci Leonard Dr. Marie Ramos brings a passion for learning and her local community into her classroom. \u201cBeing a professor, I get to encourage young people to achieve their dreams. It doesn\u2019t have to be in art \u2013\u2013 whether its engineering or in the sciences \u2013\u2013 as long as they do what they love,\u201d […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":789,"featured_media":222414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Cuyamaca professor has a passion for teaching art","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11548,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}