Why do kids need artists?
Bruno Munari and playing with art

  • Why do kids need artists?

Every other Sunday of the month the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw holds family workshops for children and their guardians. The workshops aim to introduce the figures of artists featured in the “Creativity Exercises. Spaces of Emancipatory Pedagogies” exhibition.

What the artists have in common is a particular need to use art and artistic situations for educational purposes. We will not focus on watching the material works of art and talking about them. Instead we will take action and experience. Inspired by the artists’ work processes, we will invite families to perform exercises and create together, giving them new methods and tools for experiencing the world around them.

Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari became famous as the creator of inspiring educational devices aimed at stimulating the creativity hidden in every person. His “tactile workshops” and the concept of “Playing with Art” were to inspire an interest in the surrounding world and exercise the senses of art viewers since an early age. Fascinated by the method of learning through experiencing, we would like to invite families to explore a world of colors, forms and textures.

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