Cool Kids’ Classes: Living art appreciation
Introducing and enticing young people to act and react first hand to the Kunstmuseum Bern’s treasure trove of works of art by renown artists has been a passion, pleasure and privilege of mine for over 20 years in our multi-sensory, interdisciplinary art workshops for kids and teens.
Bringing to life an old master such as Fra Angelico with the children experimenting with egg tempera, dressing up as a 19th-century child in an Anker portrait or as a restaurant guest in an August Macke outdoors restaurant scene, dramatizing an Alberto Giacometti sculpture, creating a collage after a Picasso cubist work or finding a painting using clues stimulates the child’s cognitive and observational skills, usage of language (in our case English), and encourages free expression and creativity.
The works are chosen from various periods, genres and techniques from the Collection and/or the changing exhibitions. In the Museum’s art studio our young generation visitors having been inspired by the original are self-motivated to experiment with various media, whether it be charcoal, pencil or pastel drawing, gouache painting or modeling with 3-dimensional materials. In an informal atmosphere the youngsters, many of whom are coming from bi-lingual families, share their thoughts and ideas on the artists, artworks and their own creations.
In our fall/winter 2014 semester program there is still place available in the Tuesday after-school workshops: for youngsters of school age (minimum age 6), 4:30-6:00pm, beginning Aug. 26
