What hides behind closed doors will be the starting point for our creative reflections. Here, the door will be symbolic of transition, a border between reality and the world created by the artist. A door left ajar piques curiosity and sometimes triggers a slight anxiety. It fascinates, activates imagination, and makes one want to take a peek to see what is hidden behind it.

By sharing their works, artists open doors. They invite you to enter and make yourself comfortable. They reveal what is sometimes deeply hidden. It is an inner world, ridden with experiences, saturated with emotions, processed by the artist's craft and imagination.

The workshop participants will try to identify objects, associations, experiences, and events which, for some reason, are important to them and have stuck in their memories. A little out of focus, a bit out of shape and slightly blurred, they nevertheless remain full of emotion.

Using scraps of material, coloured paper, cardboard, string, pastels, and other tools, we will learn the ins and outs of the collage technique. In the final stage, we will give the resulting shapes and objects their own meaning and thus open the door to the world of imagination, inviting others to enter it. In this way, we will offer our audience a space for interpretation.

During the workshop we will look at the artist/viewer relationship. We will also talk about what interpretation is all about. How do we find the key to the artist's world so that we understand what he meant? Do more keys fit into a single lock?

The work we will produce will also be a pretext to expand our knowledge and explain concepts from the world of art, such as collage, printmaking, composition, expression, and contrast. We will learn how to use colour and contour to give our works the right expression and highlight what we care most about. We will look at how colours affect the way we feel and perceive works of art.

Grades 5-8 welcome.

9-10.30 am 1st group

11 am-12.30 pm 2nd group

registration: joanna.tekla@arsenal.art.pl