• ART ENLARGES THE AREA project -index-
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2.1. art education

- the final aim is the welfare of the children and youngsters, who have great problems in nowadays society and give them instruments to be able to manage their future.
- one instrument is art, doing something with their hands and brains, it helps them formulate the surrounding world
- these pilot courses for teachers helps them in their work and give them professional tools to educate art with a positive result

The project ART ENLARGES THE AREA will start a permanent art education center - based on the great expertise build up in the huge collection of children’s art from the AllaprimA Foundation - with practical and theoretical programs for (art) teachers in the field of art education.

The general aim of expressive development is to teach children to observe and experience in a more conscious way.
Children learn to convert observation and experience into two- and three-dimensional images.
They become aware of what they see, hear, feel and experience.
They learn to be open to coincidences, to changes and more than one solution to a problem.
This fundamental attitude can developed within the field of expressive development.
Art is one of the basic human qualities.
In the first years of a child's life, the view on reality is in an artistic way.
Art is the open mind to the phenomena of the (unknown) reality.
Children are able to see things in a new way, because they do not have any notice of the rules adults are using.

2.1. this art education project will:
a. enlarges welfare of children and youngsters
b. retains and build up expertise in the field of art education
c. develop good art education programs for teachers
d. starts permanent training of (art) teachers
e. establish center for art education
f. make the collection of children’s art available for exhibitions, publications and investigation.

In cooperation with Etelä-Savon Taidetoimikunta different projects are started.
The first project is to create a group of teacher from of schools from the Mikkeli area which can develop a art education school program what can be useful for their own schools and what can transferred to other schools. This pilot group will start in September. Mikkelin Kaupunki is a partner is this project.

The second project is to develop content and skills for art education in primary and secondary schoolsby international art educators and artists.
The first symposium has taken place from July 9-12 2007 in the art centre with Finnish, Dutch and Italian expertise.
Jolanda Schouten - artist - art education consultant - CKV Almere the Netherlands
Matti Mattson - artist - art teacher - Anttola Finland
Mari Shields - sculptor - creative writer - Amsterdam - the Netherlands
Reggio Emilia - art school for young children - Italy
Riitta Moisander - artist - art teacher - secretary general Etelä-Savon Taidetoimikunta - Mikkeli Finland
Marja de Jong - artist - art teacher - founder of Saksala ArtRadius - Haukivuori Finland
Marjan Booij - mezzo soprano - music teacher - creative cooker - Tilburg the Netherlands
 

Mikkelin Kaupunki

AllaprimA Foundation

Etelä-Savon Taidetoimikunta

information:
Marja de Jong
mobile 00358 (0)50 4625 675
mail@saksala.org

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