Meer Raúl Miyar, our Visual Arts faculty for this summer!

Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Raúl Miyar has been a professor and the Chair of the Fine Arts/Illustration Department at Chavón | The School of Design in the Dominican Republic for the past twenty years. Chavón is an affiliate of the Parsons School of Design in New York.

He received his BFA from Xavier University and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Before becoming the Chair of the Chavón Fine Arts Department, Raúl taught Visual Arts and Art History at The Lovett School in Atlanta, GA. He has taught in the Spoleto Study Abroad program since 2000. In addition to teaching, he has also focused on curatorial work in the Dominican Republic for the past several years and is the Head Curator at Casa Quien Gallery in Santo Domingo, DR. He has also been creating personalized amulets to satisfy his need to work with his hands for over fifteen years (raulmiyar.com). Raúl currently resides in the Dominican Republic.

We can’t wait to welcome Raúl back to Spoleto this summer!