Percepción de los estudiantes de Artes visuales sobre su profesión

The Visual Arts degree has a series of job opportunities that may not be noticed. It is thought that the study of visual arts has as a single goal “becoming an artist”, which results in a bias regarding the possibilities in the labor field. University education has the goal of professionalizing the student, which implies that whoever studies visual arts should be trained as a professional in this discipline. The above is not exclusive or exclusive of the possibility of developing as an artist. In order to understand the perception that students of the Visual Arts program at the University of Panama have about their profession, their study plan was analyzed to obtain a curricular overview of the profession; an instrument with a scale of attitudes and opinions was applied to a focus group of students from all levels and shifts. In this way, the extent to which students consider the scope of their university preparation to aid them develop as professionals was examined; significant limitations were found regarding the workspaces that they consider they could perform in.