‍ ‍ PASSPORT TO ART

Every week, the Kids Zone becomes a new country. When children arrive for Passport to Art, they board the Kids Place jet and fly somewhere new—Argentina, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, the Philippines, Madagascar, Australia and beyond. Six sessions completed. Dozens of countries visited. Not a single passport stamp required.

Each week follows the same wonderful rhythm. Children find that week’s country on the globe. They watch a video that brings the country to life—like the animated biography of Lionel Messi when the jet landed in Argentina. They learn a song or a few words in the language. And then they make art in the style of that country’s tradition.

They have painted llamas, elephants, parrots and Swedish Dala horses. Done Turkish paper marbling and constructed intricate mandalas. Painted King Tut in the Egyptian portrait tradition. Woven in the Madagascan style. Decorated boomerangs in the Aboriginal tradition of Australia. Explored the Amazon rainforest and visited Dracula’s castle in Romania and the islands of the Philippines.

At the end of each six-week session, every child’s work is displayed in a public exhibition—on real gallery walls, for a real audience because that is exactly what it deserves.

This fall our Passport to Art kids will travel the Silk Road from China to Italy, learning how goods and people moved across Asia and Europe before there was Amazon Prime. The classes will be given on Sundays from 1:00-2:30 or 3:00-4:30 on August 30, September and 20 and October 11, 18 & 25. The classes will be given at Gallery 645, 190 Jefferson Street in Lexington.