How to get interested in discussion? To express not only one's opinion, but also to hear another's, and finally to agree that different points of view can be right in their own way? Sometimes it is not so simple and easy. So MO Museum, in cooperation with the British Council in Lithuania, offers to start doing this together and invites you to participate in the new project "Exchange of visual thinking in art".
The project, using contemporary art and MO Museum The educational programs carried out will aim to promote dialogue, the habit of hearing and listening to the opinions of others, arguing and not accepting one truth as the final one. It is planned that active project activities will begin in May of this year, with schools invited to join, and communities during the summer period.
"At the museum, by applying various educational methods, we notice how visual art helps to speak out, open up, and talk about various topics. So, pushing back against contemporary art and the topics analyzed in exhibitions, we aim to raise questions, create dialogue, and inspire critical thinking. This is precisely what is very important in the modern and turbulent world," says Milda Ivanauskienė, director of the MO Museum.
During the project, special educational sessions will be held based on the visual thinking strategy. This is the MoMA museum (JAV) an art education method developed by educator Philipe Yenawine and psychologist Abigail Housen, which is used by MO educators at the MO Museum. During the sessions, there is a constant dialogue between the educator and the participants, and a universal question system is used that encourages observation and description, interpretation based on arguments, and consistent reasoning.
The project's starting point is the upcoming major exhibition at the MO Museum "Why is it so hard to love?" and it analyzes topics that are particularly relevant at the moment. It asks questions about why it is difficult to love another person, no matter what they are, raised by openness to others/different questions. This is the starting point for the entire project – an opportunity to speak up and raise relevant, sometimes even uncomfortable, questions.
It is planned that the sessions will take place in the MO Museum and in specific communities and schools that will participate in the project.
Schools and communities are invited to fill out applications until April 10.
