Arts Lab 4.0: Month V, Federica Colzani - My favorite one

My fifth month in Romania started with the celebration of the new year in Cluj. We spent time together and we visited a beautiful city with a wonderful Christmas atmosphere. 

After the trip we started to develop the Rroma Alternative museum: my purpose was to give value to Rroma artists that are too often marginalized. My students gave their interpretations of Rroma poems, paintings, sculptures, clothes and music using paintings and clay. Together with the canvas that I painted, this drawings took part in "Witch hunt" a small installation inspired by the work of the Rroma artist La Bas. 

The topic was not easy because I really think that when you have to speak for a minority to which you don't belong,  you have to take a step back and listen them more than sharing your point of view.

The final Rroma exhibition was my favorite one: I enjoyed the work from the beginning and having more time, gave me the chance to think more, connect more with the students, try more things and be more proud of the final product.

I hope the next museum will be also the great one. I hope I will have the chance to develop my ideas in the best way possible and to involved the children in the process of creating art.

Federica Colzani from Italy is doing a long-term volunteering project in our organisation, under Arts Lab 4.0, a project funded by European Solidarity Corps, a programme of the European Union.