May 12-13, Ages 8-12

Capacity: 15

In this workshop, we invite pioneering artists from art history to Mardin (Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian). We strive to understand and bring to life the artist and their art. At the same time, we aim to support the developmental areas of the children participating in the workshop, increase their creativity, help them adapt to the culture of the world they live in, understand themselves and others, and integrate their past with their present. We transform art from a process that is merely produced, must be appreciated, concerned with beauty, and result-oriented, into a process where they can freely express themselves by understanding each other's feelings without the fear of being judged, drawing inspiration from their own lives and surroundings.

Büşra Akgeyik was born in Mardin in 1994. She completed her undergraduate education in the Department of Special Education at Selçuk University. Her first experience with children was in 2010 at the Mother and Child Education Foundation in the ADEP (Mother Support Program). She organized mother-child workshops and empathy workshops with disabled and disadvantaged groups at the Mardin Museum. She worked in museum education and art education workshops at the Mardin Museum. She organized a thematic art workshop with refugee children at the summer school opened in collaboration with the Mardin Museum and the Art Everywhere Association. She is a member of the 13 Metrekare Art Collective team established in Mardin. She works as a special education teacher in an autism class at the Ministry of National Education.