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Our NEW ARTOCONECTO SITE is in the WORKS!

The site will include all OUR projects, art exhibitions in Washington D.C. and Miami, and our award-winning program KIDSART.

We are excited to let everyone know about our new affordable arts programs for children in our new home of NEW YORK CITY.

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For more information, please contact us at; Artoconecto@gmail.com.

SUMMER KIDSART AT Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO)

Through a collaboration with the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), this year Artoconecto is conducting affordable art workshops at the foundation headquarters in downtown Miami.  Each year, artists are selected to conduct workshops designed to teach children unique art techniques, styles and processes, while engaging them in a stimulating unforgettable learning process.  
Since 2008, Artoconecto's KIDSART has been working with inspiring working and dedicated artists whose participation has contributed to a life changing experience for the kids. 
It is our mission to continue bringing the most dynamic and diverse group of contemporary artists to the lives of our children, and through partnerships and collaborations in the area, our mission is expanding and benefiting more and more children, because the arts should be a part of every child's life. Thank you to all the amazing artists for making this year another successful KIDSART.  Special thanks to the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation for its continued support and nurturing of the program.

SUMMER 2013 
KIDSART@CIFO

'Layered Explorations' by Victor Muniz
Watch a short film here

'Pixel Nation' by Reed Van Brunschot

'The Power of Data Visualization' by Olivia Ramos

'EcoArtccesories' by Luis Valenzuela

 

KIDSART@CIFO Summer Series: Layered Explorations, By Victor Muniz.

Photo credit: Stephan Goettlicher

MONDAY JULY 1ST AND TUESDAY JULY 2ND. From 2PM to 5PM. Open to all children ages 6 to 12. At CIFO-Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation.

KIDSART@CIFO Summer Series: Layered Explorations, By Victor Muniz.


Workshop:
The 1st assignment will begin by asking the children to draw shapes and images across 2 large panels of hardboard, stimulating raw creativity and freehanded exploration. They will be encouraged to move across the panel, drawing in several random areas. They will begin by all using only 1 color, then switching to a new color and eventually a third. The end result will be a layered collection of all of the children's drawings. The 2nd assignment will take what they learned on the freehand exploration onto their own magnet. They will be given an 8.5"x11" magnetic sheet and asked to draw and create their own magnets...

AND LOADS MORE, but we won't spoil it for you.

For registrations enter:

http://www.cifo.org/en/cifo-store?page=shop.browse&category_id=4

$25 dollars for both days includes workshop, materials, snacks and loads of fun.


Photo credit: Stephan Goettlicher

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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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KIDSART@CIFO: Understanding Materials Through Desconstruction by Agustina Woodgate.

Artist Agustina Woodgate will host the last installment of CIFO's Family Cultural Spot for the exhibition Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, Saturday, March 3. For this workshop kids will be asked to bring an article of clothing they could dispose of. Using these garments Woodgate will explore the understanding of materials through deconstruction, dialog and storytelling and guide children through the process of finding meaning in all their decisions and transformations. The kids will also be taken on an insightful tour of the exhibition Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices highlighting works that inspired this activity. Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012 Time: 1-3 pm Location: CIFO Art Space,1018 N. Miami Ave,Miami, FL 33136 Admission: $5 per child, Free for CIFO Members RSVP to rsvp@cifo.org Purchase tickets here For kids ages 5-12 Cost includes full entertainment, professional instruction, all materials, take home projects, and a snack!

About the artist Agustina Woodgate graduated from the National University of Visual Arts, Argentina, in 2004 and has exhibited extensively in U.S and abroad. She has initiated collaborative projects and has been awarded artists residencies both nationally and internationally. Her practice aims to create art that fosters exchanges between people rather than encounters between a viewer and object. Through these exchanges, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption. Her works explore the physical, emotional and cultural relationships we have with our surroundings by examining how individuals aspire, adapt, observe, connect, seek and find solutions for living. For more information please visit: http://agustinawoodgate.com

This program was co-organized by the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and Artoconecto, a non-profit arts advocacy organization based in Miami, FL, dedicated to creating and promoting unique artistic projects. ArtoConecto's kids programs seek to introduce children to the rich cultural and artistic diversity in the Miami community. For more information on ArtoConecto visit

http://artoconecto.blogspot.com/