ART

PRESCHOOL ART Dogpatch Atelier

The atellerista introduces the techniques and languages of art into the school, allowing children to experience the limits and possibilities. These experiments and explorations do not happen sporadically, but daily. Art is understood not only as a technique, but also as a compass, giving children the right to express their language through drawing, clay manipulation, photography, investigations of light phenomena, digital landscapes, and much more.

Silicon Valley Atelier an open space to inspire wonder

During the first year of the Art atelier in La Scuola’s Silicon Valley campus, the children had the opportunity to get familiar with the new space, different expressive languages, and materials.

In the new space of the atelier, we witnessed children being amazed in front of the language of light and colors, the changes of clay, the endless possibilities of graphic marks and drawing, the spontaneity of photography, the freedom of dance and body languages, the engagement with music. Week after week, this new space started to feel more and more as ours and reflected children’s learning, their own discoveries, and curiosities.

Towards the end of the year, we opened the atelier to the garden/play yard to create a stronger connection between Art and Nature. That inspired an even “newer” space where our identity as a community, our daily life, and our research have been combined in a wonderful and harmonious ensemble.