Learning courses

The courses are directed at anybody wishing to gain or improve methods with which to develop their work with children and teenagers in the field of art.

These are planned based on the client’s needs (length, target, available location, etc.) and they can also take place in the form of presentations with projections of images that illustrate ideas, or that are articulated around both a theoretical element as well as a workshop, in which the participants realize their own didactic project. These workshops are creative moments of extreme importance; they often reawaken sleeping abilities, developing artistic talents sometimes ignored by the participants.

Of the most successful courses held in schools, libraries and cultural centres, courses still available now upon request, special mention goes to:

An encounter with the modern work of art
Discovery of the educational approach of the Pompidou Centre, Paris.
How should a creative workshop be conceived? How can one explore the various resources of an artwork through visual, poetic, sound and corporeal stimuli? How can young people and artworks be brought together?

Artistic diversity as a source for growth
Non-European influences on the revolution of modern art
Why did protagonists such as Picasso, Matisse, Klee and Giacometti find inspiration in art from Africa and Oceania? How did non-European art fertilize the research of the Twentieth Century? Can this observation help develop in children the understanding of the richness of cultural exchange?

Artist’s books
A walk in an editorial landscape of extraordinary imagination

Presentation of several artist’s books and the author’s path (Komagata, Claire Dè, Enzo and Iela Mari, Luigi Veronesi, etc): reflections on the role of mediation of artist’s books in libraries and schools.

Artist alphabets
Exploration of signs for the renewal of the relationship with writing

Presentation of books in which authors propose original stimuli for new graphical approaches to the alphabet (from Anna Bertier to Marion Bataille, from Roberto Beretta to Kveta Pacovshka, etc) and laboratorial courses to explore new gestures and tools.

Warja Lavater: An encounter between an artist and fairytales.
Discovery of an atypical personality in the world of children’s literature

Presentation of the original books by Lavater, that retell fairytales (Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Cinderella, etc) through a visual code, without texts or illustrations, that stimulate sensibility towards the language of modern art.

Workshops for children

Through workshop projects, young people are encouraged to manipulate, experiment and be guided by their curiosity towards various themes (youth literature, modern and contemporary artists, the language of material, colour, form, etc).

These encounters are planned based on the requests and needs of the clients (length, age, location, etc) and are aimed at nursery children as well as primary and middle school children.

Exhibitions

An exhibition on the work of Warja Lavater
curated by Catherine Girault, is available for borrowing from the Bilbioteca Centrale [Central Library] of Rome.

The exhibition is composed of:
- 6 panels on forex (1 m x 1 m)
- 6 panels on forex (0.70 m x 0.70 m)

Who is Warja Lavater?
Swiss-German author, an atypical person in the world of art and children’s literature. Her artist’s books, originally published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, then by the publisher-gallerist Adrien Maeght in the Seventies, offer an original approach to the fairytale universe, proposing a visual discovery through form and colour. Her books are real object-books in which writing becomes the image and image the writing, guiding children towards an initiation into abstract language.

Learning materials

Pedagogical cases
The 20eventi box of surprises
Educational material on art, available for borrowing

The conception of these boxed was guided by the wish to provide instruments to inspire a greater sensibility towards visual art in children and teenagers.
Little Red Riding Hood playmat
Drawing and photograph dominoes

Instruction cards for workshops
Objects for manipulation to discover works of art through sight and touch
Cushions to narrate birth
Word games to get close to the visual language of art

The materials are aimed at everybody interested in developing didactic paths (teachers in primary schools, nurseries, etc).
There are three boxes, Blue, Red and Yellow, that can be borrowed free of charge.

Blue hands

Volume on the colour blue for teachers, operators and parents
Curated by Catherine Girault

"Blue is the colour that appears when we hear the word sky" Kandinsky

This volume proposes, through the colour blue, an itinerary that revolves around four works by Mirò, Matisse, Kandinsky and Klein. Hearing the thunderbolt that tears the sky, floating in a transparent infinity, caressing the foaming froth and rising from the seabed are some of the sensorial experiences that this volume proposes to undergo in front of an artwork.

Through certain questions, poems, steps towards the creative process of the artist and various workshop proposals, every teacher/operator can find ideas for creation and refection to render the imagination more receptive to artworks.