ART STUDIO FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
GYIK-STUDIO in 10 EXPRESSIONS:
FREEDOM OF ART
CREATIVE TASKS
INSPIRING CURIOSITY
VARIETY OF MATERIALS
SENSORY EXPERIENCE
SPATIAL THINKING
INTERACTIVE WORKFLOW
INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS
48 YEARS IN ART-EDUCATION
The Art Studio for Children and Youth (GYIK-Műhely, www.gyikmuhely.hu) was founded in 1975 under the leadership of the artist-teacher Árpád Szabados (later Dean of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts) as experimental art sessions, and has since become the first well-known creative studio developing young talents under the auspices of the Hungarian National Gallery.
Our past has been documented on this website.
GYIK is aimed in the integration of issues of contemporary art into art teaching, and at developing children’s artistic creativity by artists and art teachers on afternoon group-sessions. Later, György Szemadám, and István Sinkó led the Studio, who are both painters and members of Hungarian Academy of Arts. Since 2012 Anna Eplényi PhD, is the organizer of the Studio-work, who works as a landscape architect and art teacher. The teacher-board counts around 15 members, who are mainly artist, painters, architects, and art teachers.
OUR ART METHOD
The mood in the GYIK-Studio is pleasant and comfortable, like in an “artist’ atelier”. Creative privacy, familiarity and social interactions as well as games are typical for the lessons, as well as learning the rules and regulations of artistic creation in an easy way. The atmosphere is based on equality and friendship.
The topics of our creative afternoon sessions are planned according to thematic sequences of artistic problems. We pre-plan the story-line of the year, which can be based on a book, a tale, a location, an abstract concept, an actor, a material or even a scientific expression. The topic-frame for each group connects the sessions with each other and offers a story-flow. (Sculpturers, colours, animals, games, geology, etc.) Although the teachers are the ones planning the sessions, there is always room for digression, experiment and adventure.
The main techniques are painting, drawing, printing, modeling, but we prefer unusual materials, which provide a space for experimenting and lend themselves to new spatial creations (balsa wood, foam board, metal sheet, cellophane, pins, etc.). We are free to include materials from the building industry (concrete, styrofoam, tile adhesive, plasterboard, tile mosaics, mosquito nets, wire ties, etc.)
We organize final-exhibitions, and art session every year for our kids and families. Kids take part regularly on afternoon sessions, each week once - throughout the year long! In 2023 we established an ENGLISH-SPEAKING GROUP! Please visit this site
Leporello of the GYIK from 2011 for INSEA Conference in Hungary
GYIK BOOKS + AWARDS
The Studio have published 9 books so far on art-pedagogy and more than 70 articles (on Art education, Garden art, Modeling, Animation- Digital tasks, Experiential Activities, Silk-Road-adaptation, Art-Biography). The so-called “BIG GYIK BOOK” (1995) was the very first creative art pedagogical summarizing handbook in Hungary.
You can look into the books and order them HERE.
In 2019 the GYIK-Studio was awarded by the Great Pedagogical Grant of the Hungarian Art Academy. In 2022 the LANDSCAPE-SPACE-REPOSITORY+ Book and method was awarded with first price of the Hungarian Association of Architects in Golden Cubes Award - Hungary, and nominated the project for international level. Finally, in summer 2023, the UIA International Year Conference gave the WINNER PRIZE of GOLDEN CUBES AWARD for GYIK Studio - LANDSCAPE- SPACE-REPOSITORY+ Book in Copenhagen front of a large audience!
See links here: Becsatolni 07-13???GYIK SPATIAL THINKING METHODS and PROGRAM
In 2015, four colleagues of the Studio selected certain activities from the Studio’s repertoire, which are embedded in spatial-problems; therefore they could be applied in developing the 3D skills of kids more then others. The English book “LANDSCAPE- SPACE-REPOSITORY+ was published to share best practices. The creative processes presented in this ARTICLE (link below) can be used to broaden the concepts of space, expand the tools of modeling and enrich technical-structural solutions. The examples of cartography, land modeling and landscape architecture were innovative, as were the abstract or constructive exercises, which are not based on figurative but on spatial concepts.
The training program has five big cluster-topics related to our book chapters. These allow the participant to follow a clear structure, and think in connected – activity chains to support associated, combined art tasks.
"TERRAIN MODELING, SURFACE, RELIEF” Local topography, field names of mountains, caves, quarries, contour lines, terrain – relief, industrial forms, 20th century sculpture, reliefs.
"NONFIGURATIVE, SPATIAL INSTALLATIONS” 20th century and contemporary sculpture, land art, kinetic art, installations: artists working in greater space.
“ARCHITECTURE OF FLORA AND FAUNA” Special places for animals and birds; cages, nests, structures built by the nature; natural geometry and its adaptation in architecture and open space design, playscapes.
“CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE” 20th century and contemporary architecture: modern designers, the Dutch school of architecture, the German Bauhaus, contemporary trends and tendencies in architecture, form and function, designers and new structures.
MORE ABOUT THE GYIK STUDIO IN ENGLISH - LINKS
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Article “Spatial skills development for socially challenged children An in-service art teacher training programme” in the Book: Arts-Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe (ed. A. Kárpáti, 2023)
Arts Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe
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TÉRJÁTÉKOK, Developing spatial thinking, Built environmental education for children
“CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE” 20th century and contemporary architecture: modern designers, the Dutch school of architecture, the German Bauhaus, contemporary trends and tendencies in architecture, form and function, designers and new structures.
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Written media Golden Cubes Award: Winner project: Entrant N° 3896 Hungary Landscape-space-repository+ Creations boost visual-spatial-intelligence. Entrant: GyIK Mühely Foundation (Creative Art Studio for Children and Youth)
Jury’s comment: This well-structured methodical handbook makes landscape education easy through an architecture and art approach. The book starts with providing tasks from abstract spatial concepts gradually and smoothly till actual three-dimensional arts, crafts and design tasks. The book is also a resourceful manifesto not only for teachers at school but for trainers in every BEE venue.
Written media Golden Cubes Award: Winner project: Entrant N° 3896 Hungary Landscape-space-repository+ Creations boost visual-spatial-intelligence. Entrant: GyIK Mühely Foundation (Creative Art Studio for Children and Youth)
The international jury members were: Carla RINALDI (Professor and president of Fondazione Reggio Children – Centro Malaguzzi, Italy) Angela Uttke MILLION (Professor Technical University Berlin, Germany) Krisztina SOMOGYI (Communications specialist, Hungary) Jorge RAEDO (Media specialist, Colombia) Heba Safey ELDEEN (Professor, Architect, Codirector, UIA Architecture & Children Work Programme, Egypt) Ken-Ichi SUZUKI (Professor Nagoya City University, Japan) Peter EXLEY (Professor former president of AIA cofounder of Architecture is fun, USA) The Awards and special mentions will be formally presented during the Official UIA Award Ceremony during the 28 th UIA Congress of Architecture, UIA2023CPH International Award Winners, Special Mentions and all of the best National Nominations projects will be exhibited at the UIA Congress in July 2023 where we hope you join us in Copenhagen.
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Dora Szentandrasi
Creativity and Problem Solving Skills Development through Spatial Workshops
PhD research: Wobbly Reality/ Analysing the experience of stability underlying spatial constructions in the creative process in real and digital space.