1st September — join Lucilla Kossowska in the game ‘Splendid Angel’
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
This artistic action, preceded by a workshop, aims to initiate the participants into the arcana of surrealism – an art movement that draws on the subconscious which has the power to open the door and provide access to our inner world. Workshop participants will play a game entitled ‘Splendid Angel’, during which they will bring their Guardian Angel into light and they will walk the streets of Katowice dressed in own made wings.
The action is supported by the House of Guardian Angels Association in Katowice.
1st September, 10 a.m.
Lucilla Kossowska
Painter, educator, English language teacher, member of the Union of Polish Visual Artists and Designers (ZPAP), founder of Institute of Education through Art (IEPS), board secretary for the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA). She carries out her original program ‘English through Art’; cooperates with Children's Art Centre in Poznań and Municipal Public Library in Opole. Her works have been shown in over 40 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Recipient of President of Opole award (2008) and art scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2010). The artist lives in Suchy Bór.
