The Usko-Ayar school occupies a small two-storey house in central Pucallpa, painted with the same dense, jungle-bright imagery that fills the canvases inside. Pablo Amaringo founded it in 1988 as a free art school for young people from the surrounding Shipibo, Asháninka and mestizo communities, and it continues in roughly the same form: a workshop, a teaching studio, and a gallery showing student work alongside Amaringo's own pieces.
The school is open to drop-in visitors most weekday afternoons; donations toward materials for the students are welcome and an excellent way to support a project that genuinely pays its own way. The paintings for sale — by current and former students — range from small ink studies for a few dozen soles up to major works.