El Paraíso, Huehuetenango, 2010

CONCEPT

The idea behind this art workshop moved around providing creative and imaginary-thinking activities to children in the area.

Its essential foundation was to lead kids and teenagers towards a deeper reflection on their social environment and to develop a better use of their imaginative resources in order to shape them and materialize them in a fun way.

TECHNIQUES

Using educational methods that promote idea generation and free creative thinking, together with an empathic attitude towards the environment and the people that inhabit it, art was used as an instrument for kids to become explorers of themselves and their external environment, to discover, learn and think..

Exploring nature using art

Tree of Wishes

A tree was made out of recycled materials, where children hung and will keep hanging their wishes and dreams.

A Child's Wish

“I wish for trees to

grow and everyone

to be happy”

Mayan mythology

Hombre de Barro(Man made of clay)

Hombre de Maíz(Man made of corn)

Hombre de palo y tuza. (Man made of wood and corn leaves).

Kid's silhouettes - “Moving my body”

Comparing cultures

Puppets made out of recycled bottles and fabric.

A clean community - I

A clean community - II

A clean community – I and II

OUR ARTWORK