<![CDATA[Center for Art Education and Sustainability: Art Education From the Ground Up - BLOG]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:48:47 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[Art and Nature Festival: The Power of Partnerships]]>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:09:14 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/art-and-nature-festival-the-power-of-partnerships
Collaborations and partnerships are at the center of sustainable development (SDG#13). After a successful collaboration with the Laguna Art Museum in 2018, we have again worked together in the  2019 version of the Art and Nature Festival. This year, we collaborated with the art education department of the museum in  preparing an evening for educators in October and the Family Festival in November, event in which we explored the possibilities of making simple inks with art educators, families and enthusiastic children  who came together in a day of painting.
We thank the Laguna Art Museum for this fantastic opportunity, and most importantly, for creating the conditions for children to be exposed to sustainable art experiences. 

For more information:
https://lagunaartmuseum.org/events/art-nature-family-festival/
The CAES booth allowed participants the ability to explore mark-making tools using sustainable materials. They created paintbrushes with natural materials like sticks, feathers, wheat, and shells, as well as with recycled materials like cardboard, recycled plastic bags and fabric. Then they explored and collaborated with each other (sharing the brushes) to experiment with the marks that each brush created.
]]><![CDATA[CAES Partnering With Laguna Art Museum for Second Consecutive Year]]>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:38:09 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/caes-partnering-with-laguna-art-museum-for-second-consecutive-year
To our friends in the U.S. west coast! After a successful collaboration with the Laguna Art Museum in 2018, we have been invited to take part in the 2019 Art and Nature Festival. This year, we are once again collaborating with the art education department in an evening for educators this Friday October 18 at 5:30pm and the Family Festival. If you are an art educator and anywhere near Laguna Beach do not miss this event!
​ K-12 teachers are invited to preview new exhibitions and learn about the museum's school programs, with a focus on sustainability. ​

For more information:
https://lagunaartmuseum.org/events/evening-for-educators-2019/
]]><![CDATA[Self-Love Letters]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:23:33 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/self-love-letters
by Madeline Lynch - July 2019
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This July, CAES collaborated with here there and EVERYwhere (htE), a New York City based nonprofit, to share papermaking practices. htE is a repurposed goods platform that provides survivors of economic hardships, domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking with an avenues for creative expression.

This CAES created paper making workshop titled "Self-Love Letters" was specifically designed for participants to use the paper making process as an opportunity for self-reflection and to instill practices of self-care, compassion, and self-love. The participants discussed in circle the meaning of self-care and helpful practices of self-love and care that can be incorporated into the daily life.  This discussion was paired journaling and deeper self-reflection. Hand-made paper was then produced by recycling these journal entries and adding medicinal flower petals to the pulp mix to create a symbolic and energetically infused art object of self-love and compassion.

This process displayed a material transformation using the recycled paper making process and participants left the workshop feeling fulfilled, confidant, and with an in hand reminder of the day shared together filled with love.

SDGs in this activity:
#12 Responsible consumption and production; #17 Developing partnerships
]]><![CDATA[Handmade Paper in a Stockholm School]]>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:59:40 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/handmade-paper-in-a-stockholm-school
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Today we share the work of Ann Juuse. Originally from Estonia, Ann lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She participated in our handmade paper workshop this past June and recently experimented with the pour-in method of papermaking with her students. We are happy to reach more and more corners of the world an inspire people to develop sustainable practices in art and art education. 
"When I was setting it up I was simply trying to make it as free as possible for the kids. I fixed the boxes and made the working environment that would be inspiring for the kids but also easy to understand. "
"I explained what we were going to do and why. My students thought it was really exciting to blend different papers and see the results of mixing various colours of paper."
We tried with different amounts of paper in search for a good balance, so some sheets we made were thicker than others."
"They were all very patient and careful when doing it but also meticulous. They were really eager to get it as a paper and some of them thought it was too beautiful to use it and wanted to frame it at home."
"I couldn’t find any good spots to hang them up in our classroom, so I improvised lying them down on towels and flipped them over during the day so they would dry evenly. That seemed to have worked out fine. I also put some boxes on them later so they would stay flat."
"There was a kid who said that this should definitely be a part of the art class."
"There were six kids who got to make paper. It’s not many but we sure did take time to figure it out and understand the process. I’ll be working with another group of kids next year and they’ll be younger. I am definitely planning to do it with them and next time will try to blend the recycled paper with more materials from nature."
]]><![CDATA[CAES' Pantone of Buenos Aires Featured in Zona Imaginaria's Anthology]]>Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:27:02 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/caes-pantone-of-buenos-aires-featured-in-zona-imaginarias-anthology
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In August of 2015 CAES carried out its first international workshop promoting self-sustainable art processes. The program was implemented in partnership with Zona Imaginaria, a residency program that promotes social integration and community engagement in the barrio Villa Jardín (San Isidro area in northern Buenos Aires) that is led by its founder Lucrecia Urbano. 
After years of hosting artists and educators, Zona Imaginaria has now released a book. In it, CAES' first workshop 
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Our time in Zona allowed for remarkable situations. For example, sharing a mate with the students during the prelude to our first workshop and then extracting pigments from the same mate to make paint, served as a perfect example of the kind of work CAES aims to accomplish. 
Also valuable was the participation of Jorge, a local produce vendor on Blanco Encalada Ave. (three blocks from Zona Imaginaria) - Jorge saved us scraps such as onion skins and corn leaves, which made his store our most valuable source for fibers to make paper with. Making these sorts of relationships is an essential aspect of creating long-lasting and self-sustainable practices in art education, and it ignites the kind of community engagement we promote.
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]]><![CDATA[Sustainable Art School: Medellín 2016]]>Thu, 05 Jan 2017 18:43:47 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/sustainable-art-school-medellin-2016]]><![CDATA[Natural Colors: Walnut Hull Ink in a Public High School]]>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:41:33 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/natural-colors-walnut-hull-ink-in-a-public-high-school
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From time to time we receive emails from people who have participated in our workshops. This time from Amy McPartlan, a high school visual arts teacher from New York who attended Ivan Asin's workshop on natural inks at the NYCATA Artworks'15 Conference - held at the High School of Art and Design in 2015. Being able to inspire others to explore the possibilities in their own environments is at the center of our mentoring program and we are happy to see that Amy and her students found their own voice through walnut hull ink. 
"Thank you for your inspiring NYCATA Workshop last fall! The class you taught motivated me to learn how to make Walnut hull ink."
- Amy McPartlan
​Process as Described by Amy:
My public high school art students began the unit by creating reed pens. For the following assignment, using Vincent van Gogh’s brown ink/ reed pen drawings as a springboard, we practiced the varied, linear markings rendered by this master artist. The finished project was to select four different trees and pencil sketch (then ink with reed or bamboo pens utilizing the handmade Walnut hull ink) and (with printed or cursive lettering) identify the botanical references. My favorite art room activities emerge from marrying nature and visual culture"
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]]><![CDATA[CERAMICS: SMOKE-FIRING CLAY]]>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:29:29 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/ceramics-smoke-firing-clayby www.sustainableartschool.org
Continuing its mission to promote self-sustainable methods in art, the Center for Art Education and Sustainability - CAES presents the second of a series of two original short documentaries on ceramic processes. This one demonstrates the simple and ancient method of smoke-firing clay:
Narrated by David Garzón Barbosa
Directed and edited by Iván D. Asin
Produced by the Center for Art Education and Sustainability (CAES)
Director of Photography: Iván D. Asin

Students in the film: Valentina Castrillón, Marina Echeverría, Estefanía Hernández Bedoya, Melany Hernández Bedoya, Amparo Martínez, María Lucely Martínez and Allexayra Velásquez.

Special Thanks to: Andrés Monzón, Irina Lambert, Natalie Ann Johnson, Tara Callen, Campos de Gutiérrez, Aurelius for the Arts and Artolution.
Copyright © 2016 by CAES

All rights reserved. No part of this film may be reproduced without written permission. 
The film is not intended for instructional purposes. 
CAES and the filmmaker disclaim any liability in connection with the use of information in this film.
]]><![CDATA[CERAMICS: PROCESSING CLAY]]>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:18:01 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/processing-clayby www.sustainableartschool.org
Continuing its mission to promote self-sustainable methods in art, the Center for Art Education and Sustainability (CAES) presents Processing Clay - first of a series of two original short documentaries on ceramic processes. This one demonstrates a simple way of finding and preparing clay.
Narrated by David Garzón Barbosa
Directed and edited by Iván D. Asin
Produced by the Center for Art Education and Sustainability (CAES)
Director of Photography: Iván D. Asin

Students in the film: Valentina Castrillón, Marina Echeverría, Max Levi Frieder, Estefanía Hernández Bedoya, Melany Hernández Bedoya, Amparo Martínez, María Lucely Martínez and Allexayra Velásquez.

Special Thanks to: Andrés Monzón, Irina Lambert, Natalie Ann Johnson, Tara Callen, Campos de Gutiérrez, Aurelius for the Arts and Artolution.
Copyright © 2016 by CAES

All rights reserved. No part of this film may be reproduced without written permission. 
The film is not intended for instructional purposes. 
CAES and the filmmaker disclaim any liability in connection with the use of information in this film.
]]><![CDATA[Sustainable Art School: Art From the Ground Up. Lima 2016]]>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/sustainable-art-school-lima-2016]]><![CDATA[ARTWORKS '15 CONFERENCE - HIGH SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, NEW YORK]]>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/artworks-15-conference-high-school-of-art-and-design-new-york
]]><![CDATA[SUSTAINABLE ART SCHOOL: BUENOS AIRES, AUGUST 2015]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:00:00 GMThttps://www.sustainableartschool.org/blog/sustainable-art-school-buenos-aires-august-2015
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In August of 2015 CAES carried out its first international workshop promoting self-sustainable art processes. The program was implemented in partnership with Zona Imaginaria, a residency program that promotes social integration and community engagement in the barrioVilla Jardín (San Isidro area in northern Buenos Aires) led by its founder Lucrecia Urbano. 
Our time in Zona yielded remarkable situations. For example, sharing a mate with the students during the prelude to our first workshop and then extracting pigments from the same mate to make paint, served as a perfect example of the essence of what CAES aims to promote. 
Also valuable was the participation of Jorge, a local produce vendor on Blanco Encalada Ave. (three blocks from Zona Imaginaria) - Jorge saved us scraps such as onion skins and corn leaves, which made his store our most valuable source for fibers to make paper with. Making these sorts of relationships is an essential aspect of creating long-lasting and self-sustainable practices in art education, and it ignites the kind of community engagement we promote. ​
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