Created and developed by the Setba Foundation, the initiative will provide visibility to the artistic talent of adults with intellectual disabilities.
The Ramon Molinas Foundation is collaborating with the Setba Foundation to launch Magistrales, a programme that provides art workshops to adults with intellectual disabilities, as well as social educators and other professionals that work in the social economy sector. The initiative was created to give visibility to people with intellectual disabilities, promoting their empowerment and self-esteem.
Magistrales is a workshop made up of three videos filmed by the international artist Jaime Súnico. In the audiovisual guides, Súnico introduces and explains his methodology for developing a personal plastic language, and how to nurture a personal style and artistic talent. In the videos Súnico guides viewers through a set of exercises and provides tips on how to work through them.
The Setba Foundation have provided all the necessary material for sixteen participants to work through two practical exercises put together by Jaime Súnico. For the first exercise, participants just need pencil or a felt-tip pen on paper. Once they have developed an artistic style, the second exercise uses the gouache technique on cardboard. The work created will be collected up and judged by Súnico, after which it will be distributed by the Setba Foundation to the Catalan Federation for Intellectual Disabilities (Federació Catalana de Discapacitat Intel·lectual – Dincat) and the Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities (Institut Municipal de Persones amb Discapacitat – IMPD) in Barcelona.
The Setba Foundation is a private non-profit organisation that utilises culture as a tool to support social cohesion and integration. The Foundation believes that art is a powerful vehicle for transformation and wants to make it accessible to people at risk of social exclusion, providing them with a voice and a means of self-expression.
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