The Museo Picasso Málaga is hosting this activity in connection with the exhibition <a href="https://www.museopicassomalaga.org/exposiciones/farah-atassi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farah Atassi. Genius Loci</a>. Participants will start by observing Atassi’s works, paying special attention to her use of geometric patterns, formal repetition, colour organisation and the evocation of indoor settings inspired by textile design.
Over the course of two and a half hours, the people who sign up for the workshop will produce an individual piece of art combining modified paper with graphic and compositional techniques. Using a limited palette and stamps, pencils and other resources, they will create personalised patterns which they then transform into geometric elements to construct a visual environment. Each participant will incorporate a central figure – human, animal or object – into this space, completing the scene with graphic details and reflecting on the relationship between form, surface and visual narrative.
Isa Nieto is an illustrator and muralist who trained in the fine arts and specialises in illustration and graphic design. After more than a decade of experience working for advertising agencies, her current professional practice involves combining traditional and digital techniques, with a visual language that straddles traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art. Besides working on paper and canvas, she has found mural painting to be a medium for expanding her illustrations on a large scale. In 2024 she was awarded the national prize in the Applied Illustration category by the Madrid Association of Illustrators.

Workshops

Collage and mixed media workshop with Isa Nieto 

Geometric Ithaca is an educational and artistic initiative that invites young people to immerse themselves in the world of art through observation, experimentation and creation.
The world of mythology is the starting point for the workshop. Its characters, places and stories serve as inspiration for exploring the works of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Farah Atassi and Óscar Domínguez, all of whom are featured in the Museum’s exhibition programme during the months in which the workshops are held. Participants will work with painting, sculpture, ceramics, printing, games and artistic installation, developing their creativity through different visual languages.
This activity is designed for children aged 4 to 12, with a 20% discount for the each additional sibling.

Geometric Ithaca. Summer workshops 

The Museo Picasso Málaga, through the Centro de Enseñanza de Profesores de Málaga, is offering Strategies for Learning through Art, a training programme designed for teachers of all levels and subjects. The course includes theoretical and practical sessions that use art as an aid for developing teaching and learning processes in the educational community.
The main content focuses on the acquisition of methodological tools, highlighting strategies for thinking and visual literacy and developing critical thinking through art. Artistic practice will also be addressed as a means of generating cognitive and socio-emotional development processes. Finally, the Museum is presented as a space that works in partnership with formal education centres with the aim of enriching their teaching practices.
Strategies for Learning through Art is a course designed and taught by the team from the Department of Educational and Cultural Activities at the Museo Picasso Málaga and available through the Centro de Enseñanza de Profesores de Málaga.