Dates
| 19.07.2025 / 13:00 - 17:00 |
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How can we create together when different worlds of experience and imagination meet? This workshop introduces the method of art facilitation and the principles of collective creation developed in the Jamming project, which breaks down boundaries between artists with intellectual disabilities, people on the autism spectrum, and academically trained creators. Shared painting, exchange, and new perspectives on artistic work with diverse groups.
Sprouts peeking from the soil, towering mulleins, fields of pink and yellow roses, mint and lemon balm whose scent carries on the breeze. Snails on leaves, lizards on stones, freshly cut grass, smoke from a chimney, fallen autumn leaves.
In our art jamming session at ALTA, we’ll be guided by scent. Do you have a favorite smell? Which flower smells like spring? Which one recalls a memory? Does the sea breeze smell better than freshly soaked earth?
And what if we planted all the world’s scents side by side?
Together, we’ll paint a garden bed where everything fragrant and not-so-fragrant, intense and gentle, fragile and grand, expansive and modest can bloom, grow, and coexist.
And what if we planted all the world’s scents side by side?
Together, we’ll paint a garden bed where everything fragrant and not-so-fragrant, intense and gentle, fragile and grand, expansive and modest can bloom, grow, and coexist.
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The workshop will be guided by Leona Krlínová and Jantra Šímová.
Leona Krlínová is a graduate of UMPRUM. She works with painting, drawing, printmaking, and currently focuses on textile art in her diploma project. She is also an assistant at Ramus — a platform for inclusive leisure activities for young people with and without disabilities, a facilitator in the Barvolam studio, a teacher at creative day camps for children, and a contributor to various community-based projects.
Jantra Šímová is a graduate of the Illustration and Graphics Studio at UMPRUM in Prague. She works with painting, drawing, and printmaking, and is the illustrator of the recently published children’s book Dáša. She is part of both the assistance and organizational team of the Ramus platform and has experience teaching various groups and techniques.
Barvolam is a non-profit organization. We support neurodivergent artists. Since 2016, we have been creating opportunities for encounters and collaboration between neurodivergent artists and those “afflicted” with academic training in fine arts. We believe that just as it is important for neurodivergent artists to have the opportunity to develop their creativity and artistic expression, it is equally important for our society as a whole. We start from the idea that it’s not only artists who need an audience — society needs to be exposed to the unique perspectives that neurodivergent artists can offer.
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the workshop will be held in Czech and will take place outdoors
duration 4 hours
suitable for children 6+ and accompanied by parents at their own risk (working with a sharp needle)
photo: Barbora Žentelová