During today's session there have been several visits by students from secondary schools to the campuses of the Rey Juan Carlos University, within the program  “Visits to our campuses” of the University Information and Orientation Service of the URJC.

Among these, the visit to Aranjuez, one of the campuses where the studies of the Arts branch of our Faculty, has reaped a successful. Almost 200 interested students In our studies they have gone to learn about the facilities of the Old Pavia Barracks building, showing great interest in the academic possibilities offered here. After the visit, Baccalaureate students have commented enthusiastically on the variety of subjects taken in the different grades and the quality of the material resources with which the facilities. 

The students, mainly from Baccalaureate, came from IES El Greco (Artistic Baccalaureate) of Toledo, the IES Joaquín Araujo (Baccalaureate of Plastic Arts, Image and Design) of Fuenlabrada and the Loyola-Salesians School of Aranjuez, where a more heterogeneous group of students from 4th year of ESO.

Due to the large volume of visiting students and breadth of facilities, the explanations and route have been attended by three teachers and three students from the Faculty, that the tasks have been distributed to successfully carry out the activity. Thus, the Professor Felix Labrador (teacher of area of ​​Modern History and Vice Dean of Academic Organization and Students of the FAH) has been in charge of the reception of students and teachers from secondary schools in the Graduation Hall and description, with a magnificent presentation y Question Time, of the operation of the URJC in general and, specifically, of the  Gdegrees and Double Degrees that can be studied at our Faculty. It has focused mainly on the detailed explanation of the study plans, with of our degrees and Possibilities that these offer for the future professional and researcher of our graduates.

The teachers Ana Esther Santamaría (Art History area) y Helena Domínguez (Ancient History area and Academic Coordinator of pre-university orientation and information at the FAH), along with the students Lucía Domínguez, Paula Jiménez (both first-year students of the Degree in Comprehensive Design and Image Management) y Thiago Augusto Canedo (fifth year student of the Double Degree in Fashion Design and Management and Fine Arts) have been in charge of carrying out a guided tour of the facilities.

Furthermore, they have had the collaboration with Professor Antonio Vigo (Sculpture area), who was nearby and who, kindly, has explained in great detail some of the classrooms, transmitting his knowledge and enthusiasm for teaching and artistic practice. Among them, the tent under which the open-air sculpture workshop is located, in the courtyard of the barracks, where he has detailed the different techniques and materials available, such as sculpting and carving, as well as forge which the Pavia building has for the metal work.

Likewise, already inside it has shown the operation of the models and prototypes laboratory, which has a CNC machine for automated wood cuttingas well as a 3D printing room, explaining their characteristics e illustrating it with the works that were in the laboratory, which are current works of the Faculty's students. 

Other rooms that have been visited have been one of the many painting classrooms, el photography set, or one of the computer classrooms where subjects such as Interactive Design, from the Degree in Comprehensive Design and Image Management. In addition, it has been possible to visit the labs used for teaching Degree in Fashion Design and Management, specifically the Pattern making and clothing laboratory and Textile technology and fashion design laboratory. The visitors have taken the opportunity to observe the work of our students, who have also been able to Ask about their college experience.

The visit has been a Resounding success, since practically all attendees have expressed interest in taking any of the Degrees or Double Degrees what our faculty offers and what They do not exist in any other public university in the Community of Madrid. The interest is also reflected in the fact that, increasingly, the Aranjuez campus is the place chosen not only by students from a wide variety of municipalities of the Community but even the students of other provinces, As is the case Toledo, as shown by both today's visit and visits from other previous editions.

The examples of success from our studies, artistic production and research activity in the Arts are multiple. During the year of life which now fulfills the Faculty of Arts and Humanities We can highlight great activity in the organization, participation and collaboration of our teachers and students through different initiatives such as Burial of the Sardine, together with the Aranjuez City Council (Carnival 2023, Carnival 2024), inclusion projects through art (Exhibition “Traces” o “Encounters around the mud”), organization of Annual Fashion Show with student creations, artistic creations and exhibition curation, such as “Voices and words” in the CDAN of Huesca or “Ukraine, civil war”, the exhibition of the students of the Master in Artistic and Contemporary Practices "I expanded", or the creation of mural works, such as “We are all equal” in the district of Puente de Vallecas, among other interventions. Likewise, there are more and more former students who today, as established artists, continue collaborating with the Faculty and progress in the professional field, seeing their activity recognized through different and prestigious decorations (A'Design Awards & Competition o Laus Award, In design). In this way, the community that forms the Aranjuez campus means that it has become more and more configured and, without a doubt, as the Arts Campus in the Community of Madrid par excellence.

From the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we want to thank all the participants (teachers and students) for their help and good disposition during today's visit day for their dedication and enthusiasm, in addition to the assistants (Begoña and Ana) and technicians (Margarita Díaz and Ángel Martínez) who have facilitated it.

All photographs of the works shown have been taken today by Professor Helena Domínguez and correspond to the creations that the students of the different degrees are currently working on.