"Innovation of New Worlds" is the slogan of the seventh edition of the Sheikha Manal Young Painters Program, which is presented at Art Dubai in cooperation with the cultural office of Her Highness Sheikha Manal Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, under the supervision of American artist Sally Corcio.
The program is sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Emirates Council for Gender Equality and President of the Dubai Women's Foundation, Which will focus on city landmarks through various tools such as beads, bottle caps, balls, and other materials.
In this workshop, American artist Sally Corcio presents the opportunity for young people to explore the city's landscape and landscape through creative and collaborative artwork. Participants are encouraged to explore new ways to shape cities, including the use of various tools such as colored beads, pins, balls, Glass covers, and other recycled materials. The children build through the covers and balls that can be inserted in the columns attached to the tables and towers of the city, and they can through the beads to paint their entire terrain, and the different dimensions and very special, and in view of the aim to develop their ideas, but on the surface of the cappas can stick a set of bottle caps for drafting Different forms of painting.
"I am trying to introduce three types of projects for children. In the first section, new knowledge about the future was to be provided through bottle caps. Children were able to look at areas in cities differently, It is a joint construction, and is associated with the concept of sustainability and recycling, allowing children to think carefully about how to preserve the planet ». "I am delighted to be chosen as the chief artist of the seventh edition of this distinguished program. One of the topics I focus on is to connect with children and adolescents. I like to work on shaping their new worlds and to enhance their imaginations, collaboration and innovation." The second section, which aims to create a world parallel to the real world, pointed out that it used to develop and display its works called "bubble sculptures" in these workshops to be the main inspiration for participating children who can be between the ages of eight and even 17 years. The American artist confirmed that she designs the cities of beads and pins, and some of the materials they collect in her daily life, noting that the city designed by Miami, which is very similar to Dubai in the collection of sea and towers. She explained that work in this type of carvings takes a lot of time, each piece takes months, and thousands of beads, but it is undoubtedly inspirational for children and increases the incentive for creativity.
Kursio stressed that she was keen to provide workshops to children, so that the participants will not get bored, there is more than a break during the day, and this contributes to the lack of fatigue and increase the child's ability to continue and achievement, explaining that the space can accommodate about 20 students.
The artist works with five female artists: Asma Al Khoury, Heba Haq, Rabla Kidwai, Taqwa Al Naqbi and Zahia Abdul Hamid, who work with them as trainees, providing them with a training opportunity to develop their tools to further advance their careers. They will be able to work with a world-renowned artist and will be able to help design the workshop program as well as exchange ideas and insights that will contribute to the development of their experiences.
"The Sheikha Manal Young Painters Program is one of the most important initiatives aimed at activating technical education for children and young people in the country. We are delighted with the success of the program, which is achieved annually in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Industry. (Art Dubai). She pointed to the growth of the program in this year's session in terms of the percentage of children and young people participating in it, which gave the opportunity to the largest possible number of talented, in addition to a 25% increase in visits of artists to schools.
Art tours
In addition to the technical workshops, this year's program included artistic tours supervised by artists and art teachers, Alaa Amin Ali, Fadia Ali and Khawla Hamad. The tours are specially designed to enable young children to discover the main pieces of the exhibition in ways appropriate to their age. They are based on maps that determine the routes of the tours, in addition to the detailed explanation by the supervisors to clarify the works of art. The art tours can accommodate between 10 and 15 students and are divided into age groups three.