Nature is my Homeland

Welcome in our art project! 

 

2018-12-01 – 2020-11-30

 

Nature is my Homeland – international creative activities of groups of artists – pedagogues / specialists / students from 4 colleges – creative searches /workshops / symposium / publications

 

In project take part:

 

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland
Fakultet Likovnih Umetnosti University of Belgrade, Serbia
HS University of Applied Sciences & Design Trier, Germany
University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, New
College, USA

 

We, as artistic lecturers at the university, feel the urgent need to speak on the pressing problems of contemporary life – the future of our civilization and the natural environment. One of the challenges related to ecological threats is the difficulty in communicating their seriousness and social recommendations, which remain unconvinced despite fact sheets (“Caution from scientists around the world to humanity: a second warning”, signed by 150,000 scientists). Consider that artists have an important role to play here, their bold ideas can help you understand very abstract and distant knowledge. Activities planned in the project: workshops, presentations, publications, lectures, meetings with participants and specialists from several countries, contribute to arranging international debates on topics, transnational problems and the transfer of ideas in various areas of culture. Cooperation with The University of Alabama makes it easier for us to look at the issue more broadly. We are absorbing virtual reality among our students, and more. We find it extremely important to start with them that nature is first teacher, especially the creators. Workshops in the open air, supported by lectures on nature, its presence in art for centuries, use such meaning. Niezapośredniczony, careful contact with nature is also the first step towards raising ecological sensitivity. Science from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow come from HS University of Applied Sciences & Design Trier students who want to develop more in artistic than design direction. To meet these needs, we have planned cooperation on the challenge of participating in an artistic workshop and creating an exhibition problematic. We, in turn, count on the basis of the experience Hochschule has in working in interdisciplinary teams. The Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Belgrade combines a similar approach to cultivating the tradition of workshop graphics, unique in comparison to other academic centers in Europe. It is necessary that we support each other and exchange experiences and reflections on contemporary trends and the development of this art. The need to face new challenges, confrontation of attitudes and experiences, both ideological and workshop related all pedagogue artists participating in the project.

Conducting an intensive international game, we observe that students coming to players and Polish students tend to lock themselves in circles. We want to think about how to learn how to be more open to each other and how to cooperate in a group. Sources of this information are observed during classes in laboratories, students complete surveys and interviews after scholarships with program coordinators international exchange at our university and opinions collected in the National Survey of the Professional Fate of Artistic University Graduates.