Learning Through Art

Learning Through Art is an educational program that uses a unique method, resorting to art as a tool to deal with elementary school curriculum content. During the 2023–2024 school year, six Museum artists embarked on this creative adventure with schoolchildren from six different schools, working with them along twenty sessions. Their art projects addressed topics such as the importance of healthy eating habits, the search for connections between people, or the development of fresh looks at nature and the environment. The children used video, painting, photography, and sculpture to explore and understand reality, and to develop collaboration skills, creativity, and imagination. They were encouraged to get involved in their own creative processes, to think, assess, make choices, try, have doubts, have fun, get lost, and, of course, make mistakes—for there can be no progress without mistakes.

Learning Through Art culminates in a presentation of the school projects at the Museum. This year, the processes and changes in the natural world, local identity, common good and individuality, and the importance of care were some of the subjects that inspired the schoolchildren’s work. Outside the gallery, a video shows the creative process throughout the school year, summarizing the path taken by each school group.