Artistic Education. Construction-Toys with materials from nature and technology

The book focuses on Art and the child in the context of Art Education through the academic, teaching and research career of Professor of Visual Arts and Painter Elli Trimi. Artistic materials and their potential lead to a variety of ideas, conceptions, concepts and themes from the environment, imagination, tradition and everyday life, utilizing the visual language, which embodies children’s creativity and transforms it into toys such as marottes, small and large dolls, tactical instruments, masks, musical instruments, human activities, villages, cities and even entire states. Paper, seemingly useless materials and, in general, materials from nature and technology form the basis of the creative constructions-toy and are the result of academic courses, training programs for teachers and school programs with children that Ellie Trimi has implemented and coordinated during her more than forty-year career in the field of Art Education.