Catalogue Foreword This exhibition, the first of our students of the first and second course of painting on glass, is the result of nearly two years of work. Each course consists of 3 levels, 2 months per level. Implementation has been intermittent but on a very solid foundation of a complex technique. Each student has taken the best of these elements and each has taken them to its extreme by particular criteria. In Ara Pacis Studio we do not want to forge identical replicas of craftmen, rather, we want every person who knock on our doors to discover their own inner world and the possibilities for creativity. This is just the beginning. The future of eachone of them as an artist depends solely on their own efforts, their subsequent search of the sum of their findings and the investing of their best efforts. While we can not predict the success of any of them or their continuity of the artistic work, we can be sure that these findings, this hallmark discovery of possibilities, of their own possibilities, will allow them to be more critical of their environment, equally from the valuable or vain demonstrations because that is the novelty of the artistic spirit: to see themselves in every gesture, expression and every reflection of human action, in a way to find a chance to improve and a determination to change anything that is susceptible. Monasteries Miryam's career as an artist began here in Curacao, over 20 years ago when the then Director of Culture, Mrs. Ingrid Louis invited to make an exhibition of her works. Now Miryam, eager to give back all that Curacao has given to her, teaches these Yu di Korsou the technique that prompted her to the itinerary of art, technique she learned from her mother and that she adapted to make acequible to her students without selfishness, without retaining anything in any aspect of her vast knowledge. We thank you, dear students, your voluntary participation in this event, the collaboration of your works, the effort to participate each in their own way in different areas involving this exhibition. To our friends, for their encouragement, collaboration, support and presence. To Ara Pacis Studio team who conditioned the room in record time. And especially, to Curacao, the country, this beautiful island, now a nation, in the way that has been building steadily in the assessment of their own identity, in the exaltation of its resources (human, especially) in its youth increasingly strong; in their elders, maintaining the kind spirit of curazolenean idiosyncrasies; and also, in the multicolor nationalities living under the radiant sky and on flourishing ground of prodigal opportunities and filled with an increasingly huge future. To all of you, Thank you!