Esperanza loves being a grandmother, a mother, a reader, a dreamer and a painter of words and things. During her free time, she also develops workshops to fuse creativity, feelings and language through art. Today, Esperanza is a teacher at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary, the first Spanish immersion school in South Dakota. Her love for art led her to teach it and to participate in the development of the fine arts program for the first fully certified school with the International Baccalaureate Program in Bogotá, Colombia. Esperanza has taught Spanish at primary, secondary and university levels. In fall 2021, her abstract wood carving of deformed birds titled “Aviary” was exhibited at the Carver Gallery in Sioux Falls. Her work “El Arbol De La Vida” (2018) was on permanent exhibit at the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House and was the product of workshops with Lincoln High School students, members of Translators of Culture and the guests at Bishop Dudley. Two years later, Esperanza presented “Nature’s Pattern” at the Museum of Visual Materials in Sioux Falls, a pyrography study that followed the secret marks of trees and exposed their hidden stories. “Sustenance” was her visual description of the wool trade of Colombian peasants. Esperanza presented her first charcoal exhibit at the Dakota Discovery Museum in Mitchell in fall 2010. Esperanza returned to Colombia, her country of origin, to study at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, where she obtained her master’s degree in Spanish Linguistics in 2009. that year, her work “The Hungry Child” was featured on the poster for the annual McGovern Conference. In 2003, Esperanza studied fine arts at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S.D. Hilda Esperanza Langle studied Spanish in Colombia at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (1984).
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