Eyes on the World: Alithia's Dream Art Residency in Paris
January 15th - February 12th, 2023
Presented in partnership with the Beeville Art Museum, United States
Co-curated by Lillian Davies
Presented in partnership with the Beeville Art Museum, United States
Co-curated by Lillian Davies
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L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11, in the historic Cité Falguière, Paris, will host Eyes on the World, an exhibition of drawings by one of 21 Uvalde school shooting victims, 10-year-old aspiring artist Alithia Haven Ramirez. It is Alithia’s dream that will be in residency for this special project.
“She told me she wanted to go to Paris because that’s where famous artists are known to go,” Alithia’s mother, Jessica Hernandez, remembers. It was at a White House press conference on June 7, 2022 that actor and Uvalde, Texas native, Matthew McConaughey asked, “how can these families honor deaths by keeping the dreams of these children alive?” and spoke about Alithia. As if to answer McConaughey’s question, Tracy Saucier, Executive Director of the Beeville Art Museum (BAM), reached out to Alithia’s parents, Hernandez and Ryan Ramirez. An exhibition of Alithia’s paintings and drawings, Eyes on the World at BAM is on view through December 17, 2022. Learn more via today.com. |
Honoring Alithia’s death by keeping her dream alive, L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11, will receive Eyes on the World in early 2023. “Atelier 11 has been sheltering creatives for more than 150 years,” explains founder and director Mila Ovchinnikova. “It is a haven. How appropriate that Alithia Haven’s story will now be a part of this unique place.”
At the start of the 20th century, Paris’s relative political and economic stability and thriving art world became increasingly attractive to foreign artists. Known as the École de Paris or the School of Paris, international artists congregated in the lively Montparnasse neighborhood, and many moved through Cité Falguière which had been established as a community of affordable artists’ studios in the 1870s. During its 150 years of artistic history, the site has been home and studio to more than a hundred French and international artists, including the well-known Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Chaïm Soutine, Tsuguharu Foujita and most recently the woman artist Mira Maodus. Drawing has long been an important medium for School of Paris artists working in Montparnasse, where influential academies specialized in drawing instruction from the start of the 20th century.
One of the last representatives of the School of Paris, Atelier 11 continues to support the artistic community through international arts residency programs in Paris. Earlier this year, Ukrainian artist Maryna Semenkova’s immersive multimedia performance at Atelier 11, based on her experience at the start of Putin’s invasion, showed once again how the site could be a refuge for artists at risk.
Eyes on the World at L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11 is an exhibition of Alithia’s drawings, inspired by her everyday life, cartoons and her elementary school friends. An Eyes on the World conference is planned for International Day of Education, January 24, 2023, a UNESCO initiative that aims to nurture the fundamental right to education and more sustainable, inclusive and peaceful futures.
Opening Hours:
Opening event: Sunday, January 15th from 3pm to 6 pm
Weekly schedule: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 3pm - 7pm
International Day of Education Conference: Tuesday, January 24 (hours TBA)
Closing event: Sunday, February 12 from 3 pm to 6 pm
Address:
L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11
11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris, France
At the start of the 20th century, Paris’s relative political and economic stability and thriving art world became increasingly attractive to foreign artists. Known as the École de Paris or the School of Paris, international artists congregated in the lively Montparnasse neighborhood, and many moved through Cité Falguière which had been established as a community of affordable artists’ studios in the 1870s. During its 150 years of artistic history, the site has been home and studio to more than a hundred French and international artists, including the well-known Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brancusi, Chaïm Soutine, Tsuguharu Foujita and most recently the woman artist Mira Maodus. Drawing has long been an important medium for School of Paris artists working in Montparnasse, where influential academies specialized in drawing instruction from the start of the 20th century.
One of the last representatives of the School of Paris, Atelier 11 continues to support the artistic community through international arts residency programs in Paris. Earlier this year, Ukrainian artist Maryna Semenkova’s immersive multimedia performance at Atelier 11, based on her experience at the start of Putin’s invasion, showed once again how the site could be a refuge for artists at risk.
Eyes on the World at L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11 is an exhibition of Alithia’s drawings, inspired by her everyday life, cartoons and her elementary school friends. An Eyes on the World conference is planned for International Day of Education, January 24, 2023, a UNESCO initiative that aims to nurture the fundamental right to education and more sustainable, inclusive and peaceful futures.
Opening Hours:
Opening event: Sunday, January 15th from 3pm to 6 pm
Weekly schedule: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 3pm - 7pm
International Day of Education Conference: Tuesday, January 24 (hours TBA)
Closing event: Sunday, February 12 from 3 pm to 6 pm
Address:
L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11
11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris, France
Selected drawings by Alithia Ramirez: