"Art is like a warm wool felt, bringing warmth and security to friends with special needs (special needs, including people with disabilities). Art is the most beautiful language, so that special needs friends can 'speak freely'. Art gives them courage and confidence. But art doesn't just exist for inspiration. "How to make art a means for disabled friends with artistic potential to become independent and self-reliant and integrate into society?" From January 15th to January 23rd, a special art exhibition, "Xin Horizon", was held at the Guangzhou Museum of Art, exhibiting the independent works of autistic youth who have undergone a long period of art training, as well as the paintings created by ordinary young designers and creators with special needs (including mental disabilities, physical disabilities, hearing impairments, etc.) with artistic potential, and the cultural and creative derivatives designed from them.
The "Xin Horizon" Heart Youth Group Exhibition has attracted many young people to punch in.
The foreword to the exhibition states, "The first co-creation result presented this time is to show the artistic potential of the participants and to show the feasibility of the project." It is hoped that young people with special needs will be seen, recognized and appreciated. Hopefully, their artistic potential can be translated into income. I also hope that there will be more forces to jointly promote this exploration to go further. ”
Young designers of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts co-create with young artists of special needs
According to reports, the "Xin Vision" Heart Youth Group Exhibition is the first phase of the Guangzhou Disabled Persons' Federation "100 Enterprises and 100 Arts" public welfare project, which is cooperated and provided with artistic resources by the Guangzhou Museum of Art, the School of Visual Art and Design of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, the Guangzhou Artists Association, the Guangdong Young Artists Association and other parties.
The exhibition has two parts, one part is a group exhibition of independent works by 5 young people with autism, and the other part is the paintings created by young designer students and young creators with special needs and the cultural and creative derivatives designed from them.
The exhibition includes a group exhibition of independent works by 5 young people with autism.
With the support of many parties in the society, Dai Xiuzhen, a volunteer teacher at the School of Visual Arts and Design of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, led 14 volunteer students to create 20 paintings with 14 young artists with special needs in a one-on-one pairing manner for nearly two months, and finally formed a sample of cultural and creative products. Provide the city's disabled cultural creation groups with actual cultural and creative samples for external promotion and link cooperation templates.
Cultural and creative derivatives created by young designers and young artists with special needs.
"The whole work process is actually a process of mutual stimulation"
In an interview with Nandu reporter, Teacher Dai Xiuzhen said, "We are involved in this project with 5 graduate students and 9 undergraduate students, who have formed a one-on-one creative team with the special needs youth participating in the project, and conduct joint creation courses at the agreed location every weekend. Before each class, we will discuss the direction of the creation of the course, collect information, and discuss the difficulties; after each class, we will also summarize immediately and adjust our working style according to the progress and status of the special needs students. It is in such a series of contacts, observations, exchanges, and discussions that our students have established a good interaction with the special needs students, and in the process have a new understanding of the special needs population, and at the same time have a new understanding of their social value as professional workers. She also pointed out that the whole work process is actually a process of mutual stimulation, "Our students strive to stimulate the creative ideas and artistic expression of special needs students in various ways, and special needs students also use their ways to stimulate the wisdom of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in communicating with people." ”
Dai Xiuzhen, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts and Design of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, introduced cultural and creative derivatives.
"Art healed him, and so did his special experience"
Teacher Dai Xiuzhen also said that in this project, the teachers and students of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts are actually beneficiaries and have received a lot of spiritual nourishment. "We try to put our minds at ease, reconnect with the people and things around us, feel the power of silence, learn humility and integration, have good intentions, strive to spread goodwill, and see our own value and the value of others in practice."
Volunteer students who participated in the project also gave their own testimonials on the message board. Li Zhuolin said: "Art has healed him, and this special experience with him has also healed me. Li Xiyue said: "My pair of friends makes me feel warm. I hope that this co-creation is completed, not an end, but a beginning. Zhang Yating said: "It turns out that as long as we sink our hearts, we can also find the shining points on them." ”......
At the exhibition site, the audience and the special needs young people paint bottles together.
It is reported that the Guangzhou Disabled Persons' Federation's "100 Enterprises and 100 Arts" public welfare project aims to widely link social resources, build a city-wide platform with the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation, serve the whole city, and lead the special needs creators with artistic potential to create market-competitive works through the professional support and collaboration of artists, designers and other people, and provide systematic support courses. A number of sustainable cooperation projects have been promoted to generate income for people with disabilities.
Writing/Photography: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen intern Chen Yue