Are you looking for a suitable art activity for your children and teens aged 12–16 this year? Sign them up for ART STARS art and action workshops at Artpark in the Rudolfinum Gallery. Not sure? Come check it out with your kids—you can try the first class for free!

They live among us, beneath our feet, and high above us—and yet we often overlook them. What is the hidden face of the animal kingdom, and where exactly does the boundary between us and the wilderness lie? The year-round art course Art Stars for students aged 12–16 will serve as a space for discovery, experimentation, and exploring the animal as a symbol, a mask, or our “second skin.” Weather permitting, we’ll explore the outdoor space and respond to it through temporary installations and performance art. As the colder months arrive, we’ll move to the studio, where one of the projects will be, for example, designing and sewing our own cocoon.

We’ll experiment with textiles, sewing, collage, natural and found materials, objects, performance, and installations. We’ll create masks, “second skins,” fabric objects, collaborative spatial installations, and small-scale performances. Part of the year-long process will also involve keeping a personal journal, in which we’ll record visual and written reflections from each session. An important part of the workshops will be collaboration, the courage to experiment, and trying out new approaches and creative methods. The course will offer space for developing imagination, a sensitive perception of the surrounding world, and the search for a personal artistic language through play, movement, and materials.

The workshop will be enriched by a major artistic event: the opening of the exhibition Crested / mâcistan: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linklater, which is a showcase of two leading artists from North American First Nations who jointly explore issues of belonging to cultural heritage, the cycle of knowledge, and collective memory.

More information about the Art Stars workshop can be found here.