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KIDSART SENSES CAMPS SMELL AND SOUND

KIDSART 'SENSES' WAS A COMPLETE SUCCESS, culminating with Patricia Hernandez's SMELL camp and David Brieske's and Juan Maristany's SOUND camp. Here are some fun photos from their artistic journey and experience. We are also very excited to announce that we are gearing up towards a new collaboration with CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, where we will be conducting three sessions of art camps for children, ages 5 to 12.
SAVE THE DATES: September 29th, October 13th and November 3rd. We will announce the artists very soon.

For more information about our upcoming workshops and events email us at: artoconecto@gmail.com

'Describe the Smell' by Patricia Hernandez.
The workshop functioned in several parts. First, our team held a series of fun experiments, along with an educational component on the olfactory system and olfactory art. Then lead to a live online radio broadcast, where the students themselves shared and performed as experts on anything olfactory, describing each smell, and leaving room for them to use their own imagination. Parents and listeners were able to tune in in real time and everything was archived online.


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'Surrounded By Sound' by David Brieske and Juan Maristany.
The kids were introduced to how artists collect, process and use sound in their work. The workshop took place at a scultpure studio, at the Little River Yacht Club, where the surrounding materials and tools wiere used as source material for sounds.



Thanks to all the artists, volunteers, Legal Arts, the Little River Yacht Club and a very special thanks to the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs for their support!

KIDSART SENSE CAMP TASTE with JIAE HWANG

KIDSART SENSES: Taste of Color, Taste by Number: by Jiae Hwang.

'Taste of Color, Taste by Number' explored the colorful and mysterious world of taste. Using various tasty medium, children learnead how to play with their senses when tasked to describe flavors in a visual manner. They learned to differentiate between making art with their eyes and making art following guidance from their taste buds. A super tasty camp.















Jiae and her half orange Juan welcome the kids--thanks Juan you are awesome!
















They have no idea the tasty treat they got ahead of them















Ok kids ready for some tasting?















Catalina brings a tiny little piece of color for Kira and Guliana to try
















Samira and Phoenix yuck!
















Alejandro: I sense a very bright color--I have tasted this before!

The tastes: Twizzlers Rainbow: Strawberry, Orange, Lemonade, Watermelon, Blue
Raspberry, and Grape + Apple + licorice
Dried seaweed, dried Shitaki mushroom, goldfish crackers, beef jerky,
Starburst: strawberry, lemon, cheery, Mysterious jelly bean flavors.
















Afterwards, the kids used their tasting experience to recreate their experience on boards, using all types of mediums, including candy.























Special thanks to our great volunteer Lauri Hand for coming over early on a Saturday to work with the kids. Also, check out the Ecomarket store, they donated all the incredible earth friendly plates and utensils the kids are using to eat their meals.

KIDSART'S SENSES CAMP WITH MAURICIO GONZALEZ

SIGHT: Reinterpreting Form by Mauricio Gonzalez

The workshop ‘Reinterpreting Form’ encouraged the kids to evaluate and rearrange common objects and materials into new and more complex forms. During this exercise, the kids explored a hidden world of possibilities that exist behind these objects and materials, while become more sensible towards them. Also, they were introduced to a selection of tools and equipment that will make the realization of ideas more viable, that may otherwise seem too abstract for them.

THE KIDS:

Alejandro Herrera

Megan Moraes

Jasmine Moraes

Phoenix T Pierre

Chloe Gonzalez

Sophia Mijares

Hugo Mijares

Victoria Rodriguez

Giuliana Mizrahi

Kira Luna Nichtawitz

Leandra Hall

Michael Klopukh

Isabella Klopukh

Samira Rojas

Lara Rodriguez

Eva Parsons

Rebecca Urdaneta

Mauricio (Mauri) gives Eva a hand with her piece

Special thanks to: Catalina Roca and Camila Gonzalez--our great assistants.

Also, thanks to Raiza Perrault from Ecomarket Store for providing us with the mosta amazing earth friendly plates, utensils and plastic bags!!!

KIDSART SENSES OPEN REGISTRATION

Miami, June 2, 2012. Artoconecto’s KIDSART returns this summer with an exciting new series of affordable art camps for children in the Miami area, designed to stimulate all five senses, as well as linking the artsand the sciences in a fun and innovative way.

The list of prominent Miami artists who will be leading the weekly camps includes Mauricio Gonzalez, Jiae Hwang, David Brieske, Juan Maristany, Patricia Hernandez and Hannes Bend. Each will focus on asingle sense: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, respectively. They will create a sensory experiencefor the kids that will not only arouse their perceptions of the world aroundthem, but remind them as well of their significant place in it.

“We often take our senses for granted,” says Alexandra Rangel, Executive Director of Artoconecto. “We move around without realizing their importance in perceiving and defining the cognitive imagery that allows us to interact with the world around us. Most of us don’t realize how lucky we really are to be able to possess all of them.” These camps will bring each sense into focus by adding the artists’ ‘sensibility’ to them, and demonstrate to the kids how precious and unique each sense is.

For three years, the local non-profit Artoconecto, with the generous support of the Miami-Dade Dept. of Cultural Affairs, among others, has conducted affordable art camps for children with notable artists in the Miami area. Last year, camps were also conducted simultaneously with camps in Croatia. ‘The Senses’ art camps will comprise a diverse group of artists, from different parts of the world, who have chosen Miami as their base camp for creation.

Registration is open to all children in Miami. KIDSART takes place on five successive Saturday mornings, from July 28^ththrough August 18^th, at various artists’ studios. The cost is a donation of $100 dollars per child, which includes all materials and lunches for the duration of the camps.

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