Participants:
14:00 - 15:00 : Ieva Babilaitė-Ibelgauptienė , "The visual structure of the book, its meaning and its relationship with the reader". A conversation with the artist about her books, the power of visual content and the therapeutic function of art.
15:00 - 16:00 : Karen Vanhercke and the Visual Thinking Method in the exhibition "The Anthropocene in the coastal region". Public discussion with Nazli Moripek, Younghun Kim, Kristina Mažeikaite and Martynas Pekarskas.
Location: Kintai Ars Gallery
The Kintai Arts Residency hosts the "Cultural Barn" art residency in June for artists, as well as for the students of Graphic Arts at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Using local archives, printmaking and painting media, the participants of the residency explore the interactions between man and nature in the Maritime region, and the stories that surround them.
About the participants:
Ieva Babilaitė-Ibelgauptienė
Visual storyteller, illustrator, art therapist, lecturer at the Graphic Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Latvia, who has published her own books and illustrated internationally prize-winning books.
Her unique style in illustration and graphic media is highly appreciated in Lithuania and abroad, and her graphic works have been exhibited in monographic and group exhibitions in France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium and elsewhere.
More about the artist:
https://www.ievababilaite.art/
IG: ibabilaite
Karen Vahercke:
The trainer is: Karen Vanhercke. She has a background in Art History and has been working as an art educator for over 30 years. She started as a visual resources manager in the Art department at the University of California in Davis, where she edited learning content for Art History faculty and collaborated closely with the Studio Artists of the MFA program. Later she became an educational researcher in the Art and History museum in Brussels, where she piloted and developed several innovative educational programs for culturally diverse audiences. Most recently she worked as a curator at MO Museum in Vilnius Lithuania, where she started the first VTS training program for museum educators and staged a children’s exhibition (Lake full of Stars) centred around experiential learning. She is the founder of easel.world where she currently offers VTS training courses and educational programs based on the discussion of single artworks. Karen has trained numerous educators in different countries, from the Art & History Museum (Brussels), the National Gallery of Art (Vilnius), The FoMu (Antwerpen), The Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius), to MO Museum (Vilnius). Her weekly online art-based dialogues are ongoing since 2020 and are attended by people from all over the world. Currently she teaches at the Waldorf Green School in Vilnius where she uses VTS as a method to engage with beginning English students in active dialogue.
About Karen Vanhercke:
www.easel.world
Project "Cultural Barn" is funded by EEA Grants.
