Let’s Build a Roof Over The World
Youth Art Exchange
Kharkiv, Ukraine ←→ Montpelier & Roxbury, Vermont
On display in the Children’s Library and Kitzmiller Fiction Room the month of February
This art exchange is coordinated by The Fermata Arts Foundation, which is a non-profit organization with its mission focused on establishing an intercultural dialogue. Fermata has a well developed relationship with Kharkiv Regional Library for Children and Youth in Kharkiv, Ukraine. At the end of last year they asked children to create drawings on the topic “What happens if animals move north?” What do you notice about their drawings? What do you wonder?
Children in fourth grade at Union Elementary School (in the Montpelier Roxbury Public School District) were invited to play with perspective in their landscape art for this art exchange. We talked deeply about how art can help people understand each other’s perspectives (points of view) and find meaningful connections, even across distance, time or spoken language. Perspective is important in visual art landscape techniques to create depth and space. We explored how artists can create perspective in landscapes with changes in color, value and proportion.