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Collaborative art for and by children

A few colored stains on a sheet of paper could be start of a complex painting

Collaborative art for and by children

, 25.06.2019, 13:13

A few colored
stains on a sheet of paper could be start of a complex painting, with
characters and all. Expressive paintings….voluntarily, or not…we don’t know. And that because we are talking about
art projects for and by children with autism, Down syndrome and psychological
traumas.


Since 2010,
Roxana Ene has run projects, in Romania and Germany, in placement centres or
with children with various disabilities. She started from the assumption,
confirmed by artists the likes of Picasso, that children can paint before they
can speak. So, she creates with them a new universe of artistic expression.


A few years ago,
Roxana Ene started a project which resulted in a set of drawings started by such children and
subsequently completed, gathered in a volume titled ‘Do you see what I see?.
The model was simple: children would put some stains of colour on paper, and
Roxana would give them meaning. Or, we can put it this way: the children played
in the Paradise of colours, and Roxana made a trip there. And then she gathered
the memories of that trip into a book.


This year we met
her at an urban festival Women on
Matasari Street, where she was promoting pieces made in her collaborative
art workshops. Here is what she told us:


The
traditional peasant’s skirt is the result of a fund-raising campaign. This type
of traditional skirt is present in many countries, including in Germany, and
that could be a connection, though the details may differ. So, I said this type
of skirt is present everywhere and is quite simple, so I took the canvas off
the wall and put it on these accessories, and they turned to be extremely
versatile and raised people’s interest.


We also found
out that many of the items of clothing
made as part of Roxana’s projects have been worn at prestigious events, such as
the Gopo festival. But, as Roxana told us, the success of her projects lies not
in the aesthetics of her works, but in the funds they manage to raise for the
benefit of children with problems:


I’ve
worked with all big NGOs in Romania and Germany, for charity. I started as a
volunteer and, in 2015, this incredible story started. I got a grant from the
National Cultural Fund Administration, and in 20176 I got funding from Kaufland
Romania. I am very proud of this! These are major steps, especially because I
am from Romania, from Bucharest, I was born here. This year we have another
successful project on fashion and the collaborative art project for children,
funded again by the National Cultural Fund Administration.


We aked Roxana
why she chose to take part in the Women
on Matasari Street festival:


I
knew that this urban festival had become a tradition. Since 2017, as I am also
the president of the Roxy and Kids Art NGO, I decided I had to particpate. It
was only natural for an NGO like mine.


Roxana told us
what happens in her workshops:


We’ve
won this project and we are staying here, in the country, to work with children
with Down syndrome. The children will co-author these pieces of clothing and
will wear them at a fashion show that we will stage ourselves as part of this
project. It is difficult, true, but it’s also wonderful how many beautiful
things can happen in such a project.





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