Last weekend we held a collage workshop of which we leave you mostly images. We proposed to the children to make first an individual piece to take home and hang it in their favorite corner, and another larger one among several, which consisted of working on a real movie poster.…
Things have changed a lot as far as education is concerned: the way of teaching, the needs, the number of children or the new materials, have forced architects to imagine and create new spaces. Open spaces, respectful of the environment, modern and lively…. What envy! We have found these centers…
We are very excited to publish this article: it is the result of the “Solidarity Workshop Kids Art & Gift” by Plom Gallery, held last December 20th: 5 Artists40childrenMomsand dads very dedicated. Objective: to support the initiative “El Rebost” Result: 40 unique pieces of art that became 500€! The day…
Last Monday began the workshop program with the artists Rafa Castañer and Gonzalo Elvira. It is a pleasure to have them to do this kind of activities: they are creative, they propose fun themes, they use recycled materials, they participate with the same enthusiasm as the children who attend, and…
Children’s world is made of pictures. If a child is able to be interested in books with pictures, he is also able to enjoy looking at paintings. The adult can accompany the child in his discovery of art, indeed, he has a very important role in arousing the child’s interest…
On Saturday May 31, coinciding with the Primavera Sound festival and within the minimúsica space, Vanessa Linares, one of the artists of Plom Gallery proposed us a collage workshop. The result of the work of the little artists was great: a magnificent mural full of colors made by all of…
Just a week ago Art Madrid kicked off, a fair in which we wanted to participate since our gallery opened in 2013. Art Madrid is held on the same days as ARCO, but because of its location in the center of the city, it seemed ideal for us to make…
Shortly after opening the gallery I met Clàudia Valsells. Clàudia is a painter, color specialist and founder of Arts & Claus, a brand she created. For 20 years she has been decorating and painting the best hotels, venues and interior spaces with color as her greatest ally. Currently she…
Last Saturday we organized a Flipbook workshop with Gonzalo Elvira and Rafa Castañer, the two members of GR, an art project created for and by children. The flipbook is a book that contains a series of images that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the…
Although this blog is designed to publish topics and activities of the gallery, this time I will talk to you from a more personal point of view because I am also a mom and I have many things to share. After all, my gallery project arises in part from having…
Spending time with your children is as valuable as it is important. But sometimes you may not be able to think of what to do when you’re together. For those times, the PLOM team (consisting of a wild child, two well-read horses and a sculpting seagull) has come up with…
This month that we have just started will be perhaps the most important of the year for Plom Gallery: we are preparing our first participation in an art fair, something that will place us and make us reach a more varied and wider audience, an audience that has to understand…
It was the 80’s, the madness of the 70’s was over and the world was recomposing itself with its usual monotony. One night (well, I don’t know if it was at night but we can imagine) the Italian designer and architect Ettore Sottsassgathered designers and architects of various nationalities to…
Typical: it’s Sunday, you want to listen to Leonard Cohen but your son bursts into tears immediately: he says it fills him with nostalgia. Or he insists on watching “Clifford, the big red dog” again and you are bored out of your mind. Don’t suffer! At Plom we believe that…
We are back with the second season of Art workshops and for the second year, we collaborate with Planet Bea. These workshops are designed to discover the life and work of the most significant artists of the the most significantartists of modern and contemporary modern and contemporaryart through experience. This…
Is there such a thing as the Three Wise Men? Of course they do. Fantasy and reality merge and merge at Christmas. A little by tradition and a little by convenience. Most human beings on this planet like to live for a few days immersed in a game of illusions…
We release the video “This is how PLOM ice cream was made”. We recorded it on the occasion of the creation of PLOM ice cream, the first ice cream in the world designed by children who love contemporary art. Why an ice cream? July arrived and we realized that summer…
Art for children. Tomorrow, Saturday, November 4, 2017, Planeta Bea and PLOM Gallery organize a visit with children to Andy Warhol ‘s exhibition The Mechanical Art, at. Caixa Forum. There’s still time to sign up! We take this opportunity to publish this text by writer and journalist Pedro Calleja, in…
Who will be the protagonist of our next art workshop for children? Joan Brossa! When is it? Saturday, September 30. Where? Right next to PLOM Gallery, at Planet Bea (C/ Sèneca, 29). The figure and the work of Joan Brossa are very topical right now thanks to the exhibition Poetry…
Is there such a thing as art that makes you grow? At PLOM Gallery we know there is. In this exclusive text, journalist and writer Pedro Calleja talks about the importance that a work of art can have in the life of a child. Let’s say it’s the year 2025.…
Why do children need art? What is art for in the first years of our lives? These are not easy questions to answer, at least not in a clear, reasoned and objective way. One of the objectives of this blog is precisely to provide answers to these questions. When we…
Very soon you will be able to try Plom ice cream. But first, we invite the little ones to imagine what their ideal ice cream would be like. To inspire them, we have illustrated this post with a work of art by the artist Mirthe Blussé. Want to know how…
Last week we traveled to Madrid to visit ARCO, the most important contemporary art fair of the year in Spain. The works we have selected are just some of the ones that caught our attention thinking about our “favorite public”, so if you have the chance, show them to the…
Journalist and writer Pedro Calleja reflects on the subject exclusively for us.
The Superpowers of Art.
Picture books are one of the most effective tools to get a child interested in the world of art. How to choose a good picture book capable of igniting artistic passions? In this article, we give you some useful tips. Different types of illustrated books A few illustrated books are…
María Acaso is a reference figure in the field of the so-called 21st Century Education. Concerned about the problems that teachers have right now in transmitting knowledge to their students, she states that it is necessary to change teaching methods. In her opinion, more important than WHAT we want to…
From Plom Gallery we have started the PLOM Workshops, a new artistic education workshops for children, understood as a space for creativity and experimentation. Today we present the result of our first PLOM Workshop, in which we approach the world of dreams through the surrealist object. The most surreal PLOM…
In this exclusive text for PLOM, publicist and exponential communicator Robert Artigau talks about the value of the artistic objects that accompany us throughout our lives. My father has a photo of Jorge Negrete next to his bed, with a simple frame, leaning against his bedside table. There was a…
Our first illustrated book is already in bookstores throughout Spain. It is entitled “The Superpowers of Art. A messy story”. It has been published by Mosquito Books, in association with Plom Gallery. We haven’t stopped smiling in the last 48 hours. We had been thinking about the idea of publishing…
PLOM Gallery is pleased to collaborate with the International Contemporary Art Fair of Barcelona SWAB 2018. It will be held on September 28, 29 and 30, at the Pabelló Italià of the Fira de Barcelona. For the first time we will be in charge of animating SWAB KIDS, the space…
We interviewed Brianda Fitz-James Stuart, the author of the illustrations in the book “The Superpowers of Art. A Messy History”, just published by Mosquito Books in collaboration with Plom Gallery. Brianda Fitz-James Stuart was born in Madrid. She is an illustrator, painter, print designer and DJ. She has collaborated with…
FLIC is a festival of experiences and literary creation that invites the public to enjoy literature and the arts. The objective is to promote the relationship between the different arts based on innovative and experimental formats, thus encouraging interdisciplinary creation and the promotion of literary taste, with the participation of…
Stimulating children’s creativity does not necessarily mean ‘training’ them to become great artists. Nor does it mean having to do without the basic knowledge that every civilized person should possess: knowing how to read and write correctly, knowing numbers and what can be done with them, being able to reason…
Here you have the text about Pablo Picasso written by Pedro Calleja for the book “Los Superpoderes del Arte” (The Superpowers of Art), illustrated by Brianda Fitz-James Stuart. It is an unpublished story. It does not appear in the book. A great gift! Exclusively for PLOM. Lord Omega and Madame…
We propose a list of artistic and educational gifts especially recommended for 10 different types of children. Choosing art gifts for children is not as complicated as it seems. Just take into account their personality and hobbies. What is their character? What do they like? What are their favorite activities?…
It is something we are constantly asked: “Does art serve to educate children?” We always answer yes, that art is a language, a tool, a different and enriching way of perceiving the world. “But what exactly does Art do to educate children?” Insist some of the people who asked us…
Well, we say five, but really it could be five million, and just for starters, that art is beneficial to children for so many reasons, that when you finish reading these you’ll be rushing out to buy your kids new markers!
We join the day of feminist vindication by providing some data on the current situation of women artists. Right now, in PLOM Gallery’s online shop there are works of art of about fifty artists. Thirty of them are women. That’s 60%. The percentage is not significant, as these 30 artists…
This year, PLOM Gallery is collaborating with the 9th edition of the FLIC, the festival of literature and arts for children and young people, by taking charge of the Illustrators Table. There are only 18 days left. On Friday 15 and Thursday 16 March 2019, at the Museu del Disseny…
Un mural que llena de vida The neighborhood of La Mina in Barcelona has had a very special mural since January, not only because it is the first large-format mural to be incorporated into its landscape, but also because of the artists who designed, painted and drew it…
Let’s add a little color to this day with the help of our dear Jürg Lindenberger. Jürg, the favorite artist of all future skaters, surfers and rockers of tomorrow, wrote to us last week to ask how we were doing over here, and to wish us all the best. This…
No es una despedida, nos veremos pronto In October 2013 we inaugurated Plom Gallery. It was a day in which many friends and artists supported us and helped us to start this project but also, many unknown people attended and later became friends: Plom Gallery has grown…
Creatividad y naturaleza, una lucha por nuestro planeta Olivia Mandle was one of our first students in 2018 when we started with the art extracurricular and she continues to join our online classes along with her brother Max whenever her studies and commitments allow her to do so.…
Vittoria Drago is Italian, born in Bergamo. She currently lives in Barcelona. Here she carries out her artistic work in a cozy workshop in the Gracia neighborhood. And this is also where she has discovered her great connection with children through art. For more than a year she…
Contemporary art extracurriculars.
The Superpowers of Art, Art for kids.
An art class for every day! With summer just around the corner, it is time to tell you about our summer program, because although the school year ends at the end of June, our classes will continue. We will continue with the online format, which we had to…
Once again arrives to our city the SWABthe contemporary art fair in Barcelona, and once again we are proud to be part of it with a special collaboration for SWAB KIDS, the space dedicated to the little ones . The fair will again be located in the pavilion of Italy,…
We present “La Caja de los Superpoderes del Arte”, a box with a selection of basic and very good quality material to unleash our creativity. We have lovingly prepared it in collaboration with ARTCANTS, a charming store of fine arts materials located in the Mercat dels Encants in Barcelona.…
