Learning and associating color with emotions is part of Cecut’s painting workshop for blind children

#SecretaríaDeCultura.- Artistic workshops for blind children or children with any other disability are not very frequent activities, this segment of the population requires specialists or experts to provide the rudiments of artistic expression to interested children.

For the Centro Cultural Tijuana (Cecut), an institution of the federal Ministry of Culture, in the last three years, it has been essential to attend to vulnerable groups, for this reason it offered the workshop «Introduction to Plastic Arts: Self-portraits for blind and visually impaired children» on Tuesday March 22, Wednesday March 23 and Thursday March 24.

Tijuana writer and visual artist Carmen Campuzano, offered this workshop to four children between 8 and 15 years old, who participated in the company of an adult and other family members, she said: «it is important that the family accompanies the child who is in the workshop so that they also learn the techniques and replicate them in their homes, the moms will be there to support them with the paints, but the idea is that the child paints everything».

The mother of the workshop student Lía, who is 12 years old, explained: «she likes to have her hand held when they talk to her, touching the person’s hands allows her to communicate better, that is the way for her to locate the distance of the person who is talking to her, she listens, wants to talk and learn».

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