From May 24 - 29, 2010 the Children's Art Village ("CAV"), in association with the Aadhi Arts Academy, will begin a sustainable art & music program at the Sevalaya Orphanage located in a small village 20 miles outside of Chennai, India. Chennai is located in the southeast coast of India on the Bay of Bengal. Sevalaya in Sanskrit means Temple of Service. The Sevalaya is home to 180 orphans and is active in servicing its community of impoverished and deprived. There is an opportunity for 15 artist volunteers from the United States who would like to join us for a week-long summer art program. Won't you join us in India? For more information please email: info@childrensartvillage.org
Sevalaya Orphanage (click here to go to Sevalaya website)
Art Camp - 2010 (Chennai, India)
Art Camp Ghana August 10 - 14, 2009
The Children's Art Village in partnership with Touch A Life Foundation brought 35 Americans and 5 Ghanaian artist teachers & volunteers to participate in the 3rd Annual Art & Music Camp. We worked with 200 children at the Village of Hope Orphanage in Gomoa-Fete, Ghana. Summer Art Camp Classes included: painting, mural art, scrap book art, mandala art, gilding, photography, African dance, Hawaiian dance, African music and American music class.
The
Children's Art Village ("CAV") is a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit
organization registered in the State of California. Together with our partners
in the United States as well as third world countries, CAV initiates and
implements art curricula in orphanages throughout the world. The Children's Art
Village is a humanitarian organization and has no religious affiliations.
MISSION STATEMENT: At the Children's ArtVillage our vision is to
connect children to themselves and to their creative spirits through art. Our
focus is to use art & music as mediums of expression to initiate the
process of healing for children who have been abandoned. We promote and support creating and maintaining sustainable art & music programs in each of the different locations around the world where we work.
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Artist: Sandra - Age 10
Theme: "Happiness" Sandra was an abandoned orphan whose smile lights up an entire room!
Artist: Salamatu - Age 8
The psychological harm that can result from exposure of
children to trauma and abandonment includes post-traumatic stress disorder,
anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide, risk-taking and aggressive
behavior and substance abuse.A review
done by the experts in the field of psychology concluded that there was strong
evidence that the use of art and music in children exposed to trauma reduced
overall psychological harm.(Reference: Task Force on Community
Preventive Services. Recommendations to reduce psychological harm from
traumatic events among children and adolescents. American
Journal of Preventive Medicine.
2008 Sep;35(3):314-316. Wethington, H.R. et al)
Artist: Richard - Age 9
Title: "About Me" - Richard is a former child slave who is now safely residing at the Village of Hope Orphanage
Here children in Grades 5 and 6 have been taught how to play the guitar by one of our artist teachers from the United States. After only 5 days of instruction the children can play chords and are able to read notes! This is one of the many classes that the Children's Art Village is introducing to our programs in each of the different countries we serve.
Artist: Belinda (Theme: Happiness)
Belida - Age 9 (left) & Agartha - Age 12 (right)
Artist - Agartha (Theme: Favorite Places)
Emmanuel Asare ~ Art Teacher (Ghana)
Emmanuel Asare is a
full time faculty teaching Creative Arts at the Village of Hope - Hope
Christian Academy in Ghana. Emmanuel has a 4-year University eduction
focused on teaching art. The Children's Art Village is so fortunate to
support Emmanuel as he executes our vision of building a sustainable
art program at the Village of Hope. He is a very gifted artist and a
patient and wonderful teacher.
Emmanuel teaching the children
Art Camp - Vietnam (Drama Class)
Art Camp - Vietnam (Photography Class)
Art & Music Camp - Ghana
Art Camp - Vietnam
Ghanaian Orphans - Dancing
Ghanaian Orphans - Playing African drums (Dec 2007)
Ghanaian Orphans - Singing (Dec 2007)
Children are the same anywhere! They have a burning desire to learn and given the right environment ...they thrive!
Ghana - 2008
Vietnam - 2005
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That little boy Oprah couldn't forget with Mai - Director of Children's Art Village
CAV's International famed artist (click here for more information)
Kofi Agorsor, CAV's art and music partner in Ghana named as one of the 120 top international artist in the world in the 2010 World Cup FIFA art exhibit in South Africa! We are so proud of his achievement!
"Disco Jazz" by Agorsor - 2009
Angel Painting by Faustina, Age 13
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