Program Vision:
Creating a creative generation and an effective element in society by increasing cultural awareness in visual arts, taste, artistic sense, drawing skills, and visual works in the Palestinian community to become a way of life for Palestinian families and an integral part of societal development.
Main Intervention:
The Art School was established in 2002 to teach visual arts to all ages, based on a comprehensive academic curriculum aimed at enhancing the abilities and knowledge of children, adolescents, youth, and adults in the field of visual arts in all its forms.
Educational Program:
The academy acts as an incubator for creativity through interactive, systematic, non-traditional teaching methods by experienced artists proficient in artistic production and knowledgeable in education for different age groups. The academic year is divided into two semesters, the first starting from August to January and the second from February to May, with participants meeting twice a week for two to three hours (depending on the track) over four months each semester. Education is conducted along two tracks:
Academic Track: Based on knowledge accumulation and skill acquisition in artistic techniques to produce visual artworks, as well as learning about art history, artistic concepts, artists, and different art schools within the curricula for each level.
Amateur Track: Aimed at individuals wishing to develop their talent in visual arts, including university students, employees, entrepreneurs, homemakers, as well as visual artists or art students and graduates who want to enhance their skills in specific areas such as acrylic painting, oil painting, figure drawing, animation, portraiture, modeling, stone and glass painting, sculpture, and ceramics.
Main Intervention Objectives:
Contribute to preparing a creative generation capable of producing and employing visual arts, with a Palestinian identity, committed to their community values, and socially and economically empowered.
Discover and attract talented individuals in drawing and develop their abilities and knowledge in visual arts.
Provide space for creativity, development, and teaching of visual arts.
Express oneself and the socio-political-economic scene through producing and practicing visual arts.
Attract skilled artists to teach visual arts.
Facilitate educational opportunities through student exchange and trainer exchange with visual arts educational institutions abroad.
Contribute to raising awareness among parents about the importance of visual arts education for all ages from an early age.
Key Strategic Outputs:
Increase cultural awareness in visual arts, taste, and artistic sense in the Palestinian society.
Support creativity and artists in visual arts and disseminate their experiences by creating a generation of visual arts graduates with the necessary thinking, performance, and belonging.
Make visual arts a way of life for Palestinian families by increasing parents' awareness of the importance of arts in their children's development and encouraging them to learn arts as a talent or profession, as well as attending exhibitions and galleries.
Targeted Categories:
Students of schools in various age groups from 5 to 18 years old.
University, college, and institute students from the College of Arts and others.
Emerging artists and graduates of art colleges.
Working mothers and homemakers.
Retirees.
Teaching and administrative staff in various educational stages, especially art teachers.
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