This year, IES Cabo de las Huertas was the educational center that participated in this 8th edition of Menuts Veïns.

The theme chosen by the students was the question of gender and the questioning of roles in contemporary art.

For this occasion, having the collaboration of María Perceval-Graells, who contributed her own and current experience as an artist and woman, was an opportunity to provide a clearer and more precise vision of reality regarding equality in art and in society. Furthermore, having her participation made it possible to bring an artistic vision that enriched the students' work and enabled, throughout the sessions, reflection and questioning of traditional gender roles in contemporary art. This work, carried out by the students with a cross-cutting vision, has fostered critical and reflective thinking in relation to the society in which they live.

As is customary, the works were exhibited at the MACA and presented by the students themselves, who made us participants in their reflections and conclusions.

The IES María Blasco de San Vicente and the Colegio Aire Libre were the invited educational centers for this academic year.

In this 7th edition of Menuts Veïns, artist Massimo Pisani joined the project, with the aim of combining contemporary artistic creation and education as an instrument of expression, understanding and reflection on volume, geometry and light in space. Fundamental issues for understanding Sempere's work. On this occasion our invited artist was Massimo Pisani.

Having the collaboration of Massimo Pisani, a geometric artist who has known different artists contemporary to Sempere, has allowed a transversal approach and with a perspective of absolute contemporaneity, to the work and figure of Sempere himself. Students and teachers have had the opportunity to learn about the artist from different perspectives: the treatment of light, volume, materials and the different techniques used by Sempere and bring them to our time using current means and resources.

The students' works: sketches, line studies, sculptures, reliefs printed with 3D printers, ...) created and built by them were exhibited at the MACA, together with the work of Eusebio Sempere during the month of June. The opening featured a visit from the students of the center and a concert by the students participating in the project themselves.

Are we already ROBOTS or is the show beginning?

The IES Jorge Juan de Alicante is the invited educational center for the 2020-2021 academic year. In this 6th edition of Menuts Veïns, Alicante-based artist Aurelio Ayela has joined the project, with the aim of combining contemporary artistic creation and education as an instrument of expression, understanding and reflection on contemporary human problems.

Looking at Juana Francés' work through the eyes of IES Jorge Juan students with the accompaniment of artist Aurelio Ayela. Bringing it into contemporary perspective from multiple approaches: from philosophy, from history, from literature or visual arts. Once again, Menuts Veïns becomes a project for approaching contemporary art in a transversal way. With the languages of new generations: connecting the spirit and denunciation of individual loneliness, the commodification of human beings, miscommunication in a technologically constructed world that Juana Francés questions, students and teachers have delved into how art surprises, awakens, reveals and transforms the society it represents.

In its 5th edition, Menuts Veïns was presented with an opportunity that could not be turned down. The project was going to be the umbrella under which a collaboration would develop that would bring together artistic creation and education.

This collaboration was established between the museum, Alicante-based artist Olga Diego, and IES Miguel Hernández, a school that requested to be part of Menuts Veïns, with the aim of incorporating the languages of contemporary artistic creation as instruments of expression, understanding, and reflection of reality in learning processes. Olga Diego creates her sculptures using plastic with the intention that her works make people reflect on the environmental problems generated by this material. IES Miguel Hernández joined the project by incorporating it into the General Annual Programming.

The work designed by Olga Diego and carried out in conjunction with the Technology Department of IES consists of the construction of a floating sculpture in the shape of an island or iceberg that would be installed in the sea for a limited period. It would later be removed from the water and displayed on land.

Its form is a simplified interpretation of the concept of an island. From land, we could see a large spherical section floating in the sea, where the curved line of its surface would barely be interrupted by some mound of plastic rock.

Beneath it, and only through immersion in water, we could contemplate how the construction of the surface extends several meters in depth. Like an iceberg... the island would show there, among the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, its hidden spherical and luminous beauty.

After its exhibition in the sea, it would be displayed at the institute itself and, on International Museum Day, in the Plaza de Santa María, in front of MACA, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante. The project took on such magnitude that other schools joined and collaborated both in the collection of bottles and in the construction of the modules, promoting parallel work around environmental protection.

This year 2020, the pandemic crossed our path and paralyzed our project, leaving it suspended until the return to classes in September, when the three parties of Menuts Veïns 2020 expressed the desire to bring this wonderful proposal to an end.

Floating Island was supposed to be floated in the sea at the end of March. It could not be. But we displayed it at MACA for the surprise and reflection of all our visitors during the months of November and December.

This was the 4th edition of the project and the invited school was IES Figueras Pacheco. This year, for the first time, secondary school students participated with wonderful results. The project stemmed from the Interwar Seminar, organized by the school, in which different classes and teachers participated. By working on the artistic movements of the 20th century Avant-Gardes from different disciplines: Language, Mathematics, Sciences, Philosophy, History and Art, they were able to contextualize and understand them in greater depth.

The result of the work carried out by the students materialized in a splendid exhibition where different plastic interpretations made by the students were displayed around three artistic movements: Bauhaus, Surrealism and Dadaism.

The objective of this program is to give visibility to the work of museum professionals and to add value to contemporary artistic heritage, presenting the works from the collections outside their usual environment and stimulating dialogue in new contexts.

After a visit to the museum, students will adopt a work and recreate museum functions in their center: acquisition, loan, conservation, research and exhibition, acting as mediators between their peers.

These are boxes that contain teaching resources and allow interaction with different artistic languages, techniques and concepts in a tangible way with the aim of promoting dialogue, collaboration and teamwork in the classroom and the development of cross-curricular projects. The Sempere Suitcase is a box with which we transform our artist Eusebio Sempere into a traveling artist, offering the opportunity to discover his vital, creative and artistic trajectory through the cities that

he visits, the artists he meets and the artistic trends he gets to know.

Menuts Veïns is one of our most established programs at the MACA and our objective is to continue strengthening this initiative. It is a collaborative project between neighboring educational centers and the MACA, as well as Alicante artists who advise, accompany, and enrich each stage of the project. This project seeks to awaken students' interest in contemporary art by using the museum as a complementary educational resource to develop their creativity and cultural understanding, thus creating an effective bridge between the educational environment and the museum.

Educational projects designed to extend the MACA beyond its physical space, bringing artworks and artistic knowledge directly to schools. These traveling projects promote different learning processes.

We work with teachers, artists and creative collectives to ensure that each project aligns with the objectives and specific needs of each school community, guaranteeing relevant, accessible and enriching activities.

How to participate?

The projects can be developed with a class group, a grade level, a cycle or as a school-wide project.

Eusebio Sempere is the reference artist of the MACA. It is for this reason that the tour of the Collection

Eusebio Sempere is one of the fundamental pillars of the museum's educational and mediation program.

This tour focuses on the Eusebio Sempere Collection and the kinetic works from the 20th Century Art Collection. We explore Sempere's life, his work, his artistic evolution, and the influences that shaped his unique style, marked by innovation and a deep connection with his surroundings.