#SQUOLA_PUBBLICA (#PUBLIC_SCHOOL)
#squola_pubblica is a participatory art project conceived by artist Marcella Vanzo for the students of public nurseries and elementary schools who are home during the quarantine.
Eravamo Altre Specie (We Were Other Species) is a free online art workshop for the elementary classes. To talk about animals and evolution, to draw, create and sculpt with whatever can be found at home.
Lo Zoo Fantastico (The Fantastic Zoo) works the same way but with nursery children, 4 years and up, accompanied by their parents.
More than anything else, the workshops are intended to provide some time to see one another, to find out how others are doing, to find again the community with which we are normally surrounded for 8 hours a day. Because in this – long – moment, it isn’t there anymore.
#squola_pubblica is a tool to help classmates, teachers and families to communicate through a free platform that makes digital interactions possible.
Marcella meets with the children, families and teachers, and, in addition to the workshops, passes on her know-how to other actors who can, together with her or independently, meet and create communities.
For more information you can send an e-mail to [email protected]
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca is hosting Eravamo Altre Specie, free of charge, in the weekends of April. More information can be found at https://pirellihangarbicocca.org/kids/percorsi-creativi/.
Category Visual Arts
Where Milan, Italy
Year 2020
Team Marcella Vanzo
Credits Photo Marcella Vanzo and the participating classes