320:. The idea of the Arts Workshops were to give upper-class women instruction in the fine arts to free them from the strict social customs which required that must be chaperoned, were barred from university, and incapable of intellectual conversation. The courses, first held in the laundry of a former women's prison and a women's mental asylum, followed a curricula of three years of fine arts academic work with an additional two years of independent study and practical application. Rodríguez was the first dean of the Faculty of Arts when the program was incorporated into the University of Los Andes. In 1968, Rodríguez was forced to retire and was awarded the university's highest honor, the
201:, Coriolano Leudo, Eugenio Peña, and Roberto Pizano. While in school, in 1930, she joined Dario Achury Valenzuela, Rafael Azula Barrera, Tulio González, Darío Samper and Juan P. Varela in founding the Bachué Movement, an avant-garde art of the Americas, with indigenous roots and influences. She was the only woman in the group, that created the first modernist art movement in the country.
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