VIVO Watershed Visual Education Foundation is an organization founded in September, 2001. It concerns itself with museum education. The members of the foundation are students specialized in art history, aesthetics, literature, media as well as a number of foreign languages.
The foundation organizes guided exhibition tours in a number of Budapest’s museums on a regular basis. These guided tours aim to awaken interest in the visual arts among children and adults. Along with expanding a child’s factual knowledge, special emphasis is put on improving their creative thinking. Programs are geared for small groups so that each participant can receive proper attention. This also allows every child to participate in numerous, playful exercises according to his or her own needs. Consequently, everyone takes an active role in the program’s activities.
The activities are approximately one and a half hour long. This enables us to discuss 5 to 10 works of art in detail. In other words, the aim is to encourage quality – and not quantity – based reception of pieces. To help process the material exhibited, we utilize playful exercises, task sheets and other aids to promote creative immersion of the participants. We would like to prove that for the interpretation and enjoyment of works of art – that is to say, for a successful conversation with artistic products – preliminary knowledge concerning the objects on display is not necessary. We intend to provide a number of approaches to children so they might select their favourite interpretation or create new renderings afterwards. Along with all of this, our concern is also to develop the participants’ encyclopaedic knowledge and to point out the connection between factual data, which we believe necessary in order to attain a complex understanding of the ontology of artistic objects.
The foundation organizes guided exhibition tours in a number of Budapest’s museums on a regular basis. These guided tours aim to awaken interest in the visual arts among children and adults. Along with expanding a child’s factual knowledge, special emphasis is put on improving their creative thinking. Programs are geared for small groups so that each participant can receive proper attention. This also allows every child to participate in numerous, playful exercises according to his or her own needs. Consequently, everyone takes an active role in the program’s activities.
The activities are approximately one and a half hour long. This enables us to discuss 5 to 10 works of art in detail. In other words, the aim is to encourage quality – and not quantity – based reception of pieces. To help process the material exhibited, we utilize playful exercises, task sheets and other aids to promote creative immersion of the participants. We would like to prove that for the interpretation and enjoyment of works of art – that is to say, for a successful conversation with artistic products – preliminary knowledge concerning the objects on display is not necessary. We intend to provide a number of approaches to children so they might select their favourite interpretation or create new renderings afterwards. Along with all of this, our concern is also to develop the participants’ encyclopaedic knowledge and to point out the connection between factual data, which we believe necessary in order to attain a complex understanding of the ontology of artistic objects.
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