The Art Workshop

General Information

Students create their own artwork, observing the rich decoration and architectural elements of each mansion. The program provides students with a variety of materials free of charge to create their own artwork, mainly through painting and collage.

Children over the age of 9 and teenagers (4th grade – 3rd grade) are free to choose a design from the murals, woodcarvings, stone carvings or stained glass windows of the mansion and reproduce it individually. Toddlers and children up to 9 years old (3rd grade) work in groups on pre-selected themes and patterns of the mansions.

The artworks created by the students are uploaded to the digital repository of the website, with the aim of storing them for archival purposes and using them to create educational videos about the two monuments of the educational program. In this way, the participants contribute with their works to the animated media which are posted on our website and will remain as a documentation after the project has ended.

The program’s implementation

Students explore and discover the many aspects concerning the mansions of the educational program through hands-on educational activities. They then become little artists by participating in the art workshop, where they create their own works of art.

Storytelling, skits and flash card trivia, designed to meet the learning needs of each age group, are available to help students develop their imagination and observation skills.

More specifically, the educational programme is implemented as follows:

We learn the history of Siatista and its mansions (10΄).
We walk through the rooms of the mansion reading fairy tales or playing games. We discover the history of the mansions, the art of this period, and the stories hidden in their wall paintings (40΄).
We draw, paint, cut, glue papers, thus create artworks in our workshop (40΄).