Galería Taller Escuela Quiteña

The Galería Taller Escuela Quiteña holds a row of hand-carved wooden sculptures visible through its wide, street-level windows. Inside this space, artists continue the centuries-old tradition of the Escuela Quiteña, a school of religious art that gained fame in the colonial era for blending European techniques with local indigenous craftsmanship. Instead of preserving these works behind velvet ropes, the gallery functions as a working studio where carvers and painters shape cedar wood and apply gold leaf using the same methods as their ancestors.