Plastic and visual education project for the training of future teachers: "Spanish women artists. Paper puppets"

Abstract

This article presents the process and results of an educational, artistic and exhibition project with students of the Degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Alcalá. Spanish women artists. Paper puppets is the theme and title that identifies the exhibition and the published catalog made up of 32 large paper puppets inspired by Spanish women artists, from the Middle Ages, to the 70s of the 20th century, made by more than a hundred students under the Isabel Muñoz Caravaca Research Chair. The exhibition aims to promote awareness, interest and reflection on Spanish female plastic artists by promoting their knowledge and research, the use of arts based techniques and disciplines and the dissemination of proposals generated by students through through exhibitions, publications and the internet. The results obtained from the plastic creations and the great participation and transmission of the proposal indicate that it is possible and beneficial to use art education from a qualitative approach from to address issues that affect demands of a social and cultural nature, such as the visibility and identity recovery of Spanish State artists.