“We still life painting". Visual Arts and Plastic for children in vulnerable contexts.An Experience

Abstract

The Visual and Plastic Education Workshop “We Keep on Painting Life” was conceived and created in 2013 to provide cultural literacy spaces for children. It was aimed at children aged 2 to 12 who often attend the “Mother Teresa of Calcutta” Community Dining, which is at the service of the neighbors living in a vulnerable social context in the western part of the city of San Luis. The children know and recognize only the cultural expressions of their immediate surroundings, of the “territorialist” type, because artistic expression is scarcely promoted by their elders. This workshop gains relevance when considering that non-formal education occupies a privileged place in bringing artistic visual contexts closer, opening a range of possibilities that this childhood is “naturally” denied.  It also enables the experience of appreciating the aesthetic universe of established artists from various periods at the provincial, national Latin American and world levels. The idea underlying this workshop is to value their own expressions, which identify those children. However, without limiting ourselves by the reductionism determined by the needs of the context, we propose objectives and contents that surpass and diversify these expressions.