Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Art Creation But Never Dared To Ask

In this project we are searching for 12 volunteers for a period of 3 weeks willing to live and work in an isolated village in Spanish mountains, with interest in artistic creation and ready to share their lives temporarily with volunteers, coordinators of the project, artists and other visitors of El Hacedor.

This shortterm project should be seen within the context of the anniversary of the 20th birthday of our cultural association, we are celebrating throughout the year, but will culminate in the presentation of 3 giant artworks in the open air.

Together with the two volunteers already present, we will prepare the creation of a collective, cross-generational work of art, consisting of a stapled self-made traditional bricks (“adobes”) sculpture, guided by a recognized artist and realized together with the local population of the wider region around La Aldea del Portillo de Busto.

The other artworks will be developed by different artists and the volunteers will help them with its realization during their stay. Various artistic techniques will be used: painting, sculpturing and installation in the open air.

The artworks will be presented to the public with a festive opening at the end of the project.

The cultural association Imágenes y Palabras, in permanent search of cultural activity and diversity in the rural areas of northern Spain, uses cultural action as a method and a tool to fight against depopulation of small villages. The association has been active in the region, in the field of arts and culture, over the past 20 years.

We wish to organize this activity with the help of international volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps to enrich the experience on a cultural, artistical and linguistical level.

Volunteers work and live in El Hacedor: the base of Imágenes y Palabras. Its located in La Aldea del Portillo de Busto, a small hamlet in the North of the province of Burgos (Spain). Volunteers will be lodged in our hostel and, if needed, in tents. The size of the village within the huge, empty surroundings make coexistence during daily life a very intense experience. Independently of what volunteers learn during work on a practical level, the experience is social and human, is of respect and confidence, appreciation and values and, undoubtedly, intercultural and creative.