0:04 Hi friends
0:05 This is Louise speaking
0:07 [ummm]
0:09 I’m as busy as usual these days
0:14 Apart from my weekly educational part time job
0:19 I spent lots of time researching Atelier 17
0:26 Imagining travelling back in time
0:30 to be in the workshop which
0:33 was going on in history for over 60 years
0:37 [ummm]
0:40 The ideal of art education that
0:44 I never thought
0:46 It did exist.
Sounds like a utopia1
A chemist named Hayter fell in love with etching left England resolutely To Paris
Became an artist He opened his workshop for anyone who wanted to learn Free to join –
Imagine a place where I can meet people from different backgrounds
Imagine I’m chatting with Miró
Imagine I’m making suggestions for Picasso
Imagine working with different professions then invented a new technique
Collectively
Imagine the world outside doesn’t allow women to shine
But in here we find value we find courage we find our rights
We know We are diamonds
Just like others
Imagine 90 years ago like one of the Asians
I travelled here all across the ocean
I’m scared of thinking the difficulties I face Must be 100 times worse than what I can relate Imagine 90 years after The experiences I brought back from then Have influenced the art history of my homeland
Imagine the darkness of war Shrouds Paris
But the crises would not defeat us –
In 1940
Hayter left Paris
To New York
Continue the next chapter
The story of Atelier 17
After 10 years
Hayter moved back
To Paris
Atelier 17 was operated
Until the year
he died –
(The workshop was renamed Atelier Contrepoint and remains active.)
