Workshops and Educational Resources
Let’s build a mosaic together.
Atelier Without Borders is offering a residence about the art of the Mosaic. The final product, an artwork built by all the participants, will be auctioned and the money will be donated to the ACESA project. Let us know if you want to build a mosaic with our cooperative and help the Vidigal community in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Workshop on Goethe Theory of Colors and its therapeutic Uses.
Goethe's Theory of Colors was published in 1810 and is considered one of his most important work. One of its most radical points was a refutation of Newton’s ideas about the color spectrum, suggesting instead that darkness is an active ingredient rather than the mere passive absence of light.
“Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of color… Color itself is a degree of darkness.”
SIMPLE TEACHING RESOURCES BASED THE WALDORF PEDAGOGY.
Form Drawing.
Form drawing is a brilliant way to work with one’s senses. Paper and pencil serve as a lantern, illuminating our inner selves, the forms creating a blueprint of our inner (and outer) orientation.
“Straight lines and curves are the starting points for form drawing. This begins with the discovery that the line is a path along which one can move. Children should experience the characteristic difference between straight lines and curves through drawing them, after having explored their character through whole bodily movement in space.”
Form Drawing 1 with English subtitles
by Cecilia Thibes
Form Drawing 2 with English subtitles
by Cecilia Thibes
Art in Hospitals
Art and culture have the power to change how we perceive the world. In a hospital context, art can change caregivers’ perspective on the institution; families on the nursing staff; artists on issues crucial for their work: life, death, suffering, the body. Art and culture can also change the way patients perceive the hospital, their illness, their life.
Our aim is to bring an imaginary world into the hospital room and corridors and to dedramatize it’s environment by revealing to patients and health professionals, their families and caregivers that humor, fantasy and dreams can be part of life in the hospital.