Wunschgarten Spray & Paint Workshop
The more we prohibit something, the more mystical it becomes. Spraying is one of these phenomena. During art classes in schools, we mostly learn about drawing and painting, but there is no practical guide for spray cans. Spraying is still regarded as an illegal underground activity. Although street art has made its way into galleries and painters use spraying techniques on canvas, the idea that spraying belongs to the streets is so strong that it does not fit among the decent knowledge we receive in schools.
The same thing, just the other way around, applies to painting. As kids, we often have some connection with painting, which we learn as an indoor activity. Although impressionism took painting onto the streets around 150 years ago, the idea of plein-air painting, most likely shaped by the different social origins of both practices, never truly met street art.
Wunschgarden’s Spray&Paint workshop aims to fill this gap and encourage kids to be creative in a legal way in their neighbourhood. We explore how to use spray cans, what ecological footprint paints and cans have, and how to prepare a project without wasting time or materials.
Would you like to design a paint & spray workshop for your social institute, museum, or community centre – have IPek do it with your community, or learn to do it yourself?
Contact IPek here.
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