May 19, 2010
Exhibition notebook comments.
Lovely, lovely. lovely! Many people left a mark, drawing, comment! Thank you!
P.S. - Hebrew speakers, don't hesitate to translate!
May 11, 2010
Draw Everything Workshop: "Create your own Zoo"
During the last week I was lucky to have the chance to organize a series of workshops (5!) for children from the kibbutz kindergarten and school in the gallery where the Draw Everything exhibition was held.
The children were divided in groups of 10-12 students. The first 3 groups consisted 5-6 year olds; in the last 2 groups children were 7-9 years old. The class was intended to be a sort of fusion between English class, drawing class and exhibition experience.
The workshops started with familiarizing the children with me as the author and with the exhibition. We walked around gallery, talked about what they see. Careful observation of the exhibits brought surprise and laughter to children's faces.
After going through the exhibition we all sat on the floor forming a circle. I prepared printed animals -- the same ones that are on the posters of the exhibition, only in outline and black and white. We talked about the animals, how do you say each in English and Hebrew. When I asked them to find the "outline animals" on the posters around them, the instantly recognized the shapes from the poster; it brought a lot of excitement into the air!
The theme of the workshop was "Create your own Zoo". Each child was given a piece of paper slightly bigger than A4 and had the liberty to choose 5 animals for their Zoo. They arranged the animals on the paper, glued and colored them. Afterwards, they added new animals or decorated the Zoo environment with trees, fences, flowers, water and etc. During this process we talked about which animals they have in their Zoo, which color are their animals, how many of the same animal they have (if they had same ones), which are their favorite animals, which are their favorite colors, which animals they wished to have but they don't currently.
The workshop was supposed to last for 30 - 45 minutes (depending on children's age) but it ended up lasting longer, sometimes even more than 1 hour. Children were very precise in choosing colors, coloring and also deciding how their animals will arranged on the paper (the composition). I noticed that in the way children arranged their compositions on paper - some went so far in their thinking processes that they became aware that random animals can not just be put in the Zoo together, they have to be separated by fence! (otherwise they would eat eachother!) Amazing!
I would like to thank everyone who helped me in making this workshop happen: the children, all the kindergarten and school teachers involved and Nurit, the gallery curator. It was a wonderful experience to see children observe and interact with exhibition. I enjoyed doing it very much and learnt a lot.
I hope I will have to chance to do a similar project soon!
May 3, 2010
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