The
Workshop Child-Parent in Plastic Arts
The Workshop is open every Wednesday
from 14h to 17h and Saturdays
from 10h to
13h.
Since seven years (2002),
T.R.A.C.E.S. has initiated an innovating Workshop Child-Parent.
This
workshop is a space-time of great freedom and friendship in which
creation arises at
the rhythm of
each person. The child, as of 18 months of age, with an
guiding adult (parent, grand-parent, sister or brother, baby-sitter…)
comes to experiment various materials according to its own desire and
look at the workshop for a particular alchemy, consisting of
diversity, of opening and of freedom.
The materials and the tools are those
which we use as artists, which thus requiers concentration and
attention which shall responsabilise the child.
Indeed, we are within an artistic
process.
For this reason, the creative
act must be respected and acknowledged.
Children adapt themselves very fast
to this freedom and become actors of their project. Whether it is
planned on short or long term, the project shall develop in the child
intellectual mechanisms common to all construction of knowledge:
reflection, analysis, critical
apraisal, searching and perseverance.
Taking into account the word of the
children, their proposals and thus their desires, creates a bond
between the individual project and the collective dimension,
necessary for its outcome.
The initiative from the child is at the
centre of our pedagogic approach.
We favour dialogue and expérimentation.
The requirement of this place is quite
particular because it demands from every artist to aid the child to
succeed in his project, technically and conceptually, by reflecting
along his side.
The parents create with their child or
along his side. In all the cases, the visual arts should be lived as
a mediation in the relation child-parent.
Furthermore, the play attitude of the
adult opens a privileged space for encounter with the child, it
allows the emergence of pleasure and the sharing of emotions. By accompanying their child, the parents
are
comforted in the exercice of their educational responsability. By
valorizing their competences, we mobilize a process of change in a
participative endeavor. This allows certain
parents to come alone for a time which is convenient for them.
The workshop is open every Wednesday from 14h to 17h and on
Saturdays from 10h to
13h.
The flexibility of opening hours
favours involvement from each child, from each family according to
their own rhythm.
Regular praxis of art favours the
awakening of curiosity, enriches imagination and structures the
child's personality. Beginning with the manipulation of materials,
from learning the regular use of techniques, the child shall develop
his creative potential.
À 
38 rue
des amandiers
75020 Paris
M° Père Lachaise, M° L
2-3 / bus 61-69
Mobile 07 81
61 10 26 mail: tracesp@free.fr
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