Helsinki (December 15th, 2020)- Internationally renowned education nonprofit HundrED and Finnish gaming giant Supercell have just released a Spotlight Report on the importance of fostering visual arts skills in education. The report recognizes Dear You, as one of the leading innovations in Visual Arts Education globally.
2020
Sampling, sounds, and storytelling for their friends in Finland
2020, 8 years old, 9 years old, Collective Art, Finland, Mixed age group, United KingdomCommentAlethea and Sigi have been working on these pieces inspired by the ‘collaging’ in the last project as well as their experiences over the recent lockdowns. They have experimented with making sounds with what was available to them, banging together pebbles, using hairbrushes to play the ukekele, using their voices as instruments and playing each other their favourite piano pieces.
Ella & Anna-Sofia put it all together using text, image and sound
2020, 8 years old, 10 years old, 7 years old, Finland, United KingdomCommentDear You: A Letter with Love on HundrED
2020, HundrEDCommentI am so honoured to have been invited to write about Dear You on HundrED, a not-for-profit organization, which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education.
Seeing that Dear You is a mail art exchange, I thought it was best fitting to introduce this project in the form of an open letter. Thank you Milo and Siiri for your good energy, creativity, honesty and open minds!
Dear You at Valencia Design Education Forum 2020 on November 5 via ZOOM!
2020, Dear You Art Workshops, PresentationCommentVery happy to be a part of Valencia Design Education Forum 2020 / #VDEF2020! The theme of this year’s forum is Analogue+Digital. Welcome to the presentation/workshop “Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project” on Thursday, November 5th from 11-12 (EEST) via ZOOM. Register by emailing Arlene at arlene.dearyou(at)gmail.com. You will receive the ZOOM link after registration.
Staying healthy and weaving
2020, 8 years old, 7 years oldCommentThe girls thoroughly enjoyed their weaving task, they had spent previous weeks collecting materials and snippets of colours that appealed to them from magazines. They worked with a number of magazines from food related to health and lifestyle and the London Review of books! They found images in the health magazine particularly amusing and worked some images of noses and people sneezing into their collages which prompted discussion about Corona virus and the current restrictions.
Dear You on HundrED
HundrED, 2020CommentAs the creator of Dear You, I feel it’s important that children’s voices are heard and that we nurture a safe space for people to exchange, make, and be.
I find it very important to self-educate and expand my horizons as an artist and as an educator so I have been putting my efforts, since spring 2020, in being a HundrED Ambassador and HundrED Academy member. I was also invited to be on the Visual Arts in Education Spotlight Advisory Board in the early summer, which was pure privilege.
Weaving recycled materials in Finland
2020, 10 years old, 8 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, United KingdomCommentHello from middle of the cardboard boxes and packing :).
It was fun for the girls to get the scissors out for a change and use their hands and creativeness in a new way in this weaving project. Both girls carefully chose the recycled materials that they wanted to use. Out of all materials Ella and Anna-Sofia were most fond of the pages from a Tate Modern membership magazine.
A special Super Eclectic visit
2020, Events, HelsinkiCommentThe wind heard my whispers and a thrush of good luck brought Super Eclectic to my studio in Bokvillan, Arabia this week! I found on the Helsinki Design Week list of events the chance to meet with designers that focus on “visual identity for a better world.”
Intrigue, Identity and Illuminating words
2020, Finland, United KingdomCommentOn being unique- from molecules to ancestry
2020, Finland, Mixed age group, United KingdomCommentInterpreting Where Shall We Go with Reika and friends
2020, 10 years old, 11 years old, 13 year olds, 8 years olds, 9 years old, 7 years old, 6 years old, 5 years old, Collective Art, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, Make Together, Mixed age group, Together 2020, Together We MakeCommentTaideleirin aikana teimme teoksia Dear You:n Where Shall We Go -projektista. Kaikki unelmoivat, visualisoivat ja keksivät erilaisia tapoja ilmaista ideoitaan ja paikkoja minne haluaisivat mennä.
During the art camp we made artworks from Dear You's Where Shall We Go project. Everybody dreamt, visualized and came up with different ways of expressing their ideas and places of where they would like to go.
What is uniqueness?
2020, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, United Kingdom, FinlandCommentTogether We Make artworks from China have arrived!
2020, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, China, Dear You Art Workshops, Make Together, Together 2020, Together We MakeCommentWe are so very happy to have received artwork from Taizhou Phoenix Primary School in Taizhou, China. The school’s art teacher Ms Liu Chunjuan has provided a lovely atmosphere to be creative as you can see in these photos. Children from Grade 1-3 participated in the three activities "A Map at the palm of your hand"," Sound travels"," Reinventing Trash". They used different materials and individual imagination to express their inner world.
Dear You in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement
2020, USA, Together 2020, PeaceCommentThe continuous murders, racism, and discrimination happening in the United States and worldwide needs to stop immediately. Educate oneself, discuss amongst friends and family, ask questions, listen and most of all take action. Find in the post a list of resources on how to talk about racism and to stop injustice. The time is now!