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Searching for Beauty. Art at a Distance

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2023

Abstract

The case study is influenced by personal and emotional experiences from the pandemic situation, which to a large extent influences the authors' interpretive strategies. Whiel analysing data from primary documents, the basic question was: What did people experience during the first COVID-19 lockdown? In conjunction with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, we proposed and tested an educational programme consisting of a virtual viewing of an exhibition of art glass and related activities, communication with the participants and documenting their activity.

The idea of the assignment was simple: if we can't go to a closed museum, let's make our own museum at home. When we can't go art-making at a museum studio, we'll do it at home and all together.

We sent an e-mail to friends and acquaintances asking them to do several activities that everyone could do, regardless of age.The result was in a series of creative family events and subsequent thematic analyses that are evidenced through an evidence-based scenario and the production of a video: https://youtu.be/O5bN83_DJgU.