Students enjoyed sitting and listening to the sounds that are usually put into the background of their minds. They listened both inside of the school as well as outside in the fields nearby.
Letting the art flow
3rd Grade, China, USACommentAs we started the second pathfinder, students were uneasy about how they were going to visually show the sound of their friends' voices. Once we got the art medium in their hands and replayed many of the recording, the students allowed their creative juices to flow. All the teachers are very impressed with the visual art these students produced.
Finding their own meaning in the artistic process
2021, China, Ukraine1 CommentFirst artworks from Ukraine are on their way to their friends in China!
2021, Ukraine, ChinaCommentThe artists in the Ukraine learn to feel everyday things in a new way.
2021, UkraineCommentBeing in and enjoying the process of overcoming artistic challenges
8 years old, 9 years old, China, USACommentVlada sings for her friends in China. What a gift!
9 years old, Ukraine, China1 CommentPRESS RELEASE: Dear You is awarded one of HundrED's brightest innovations in Visual Art education!
2020, Award, HundrEDCommentHelsinki (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.
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, HundrED1 CommentI 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 KingdomCommentArt as a form of communication
10 years old, 8 years old, Mixed age group, 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.