Artist Angelika Bauer Inspires Children with Art at La Puerta Abierta

Throughout the past three years, La Puerta Abierta has become much more than a library. It has transformed into a place where children gather with their mothers for early stimulation classes, where friends meet on Friday afternoons to play with our educational games, where teachers visit to borrow story books for their classes and where children sign up for a variety of classes and workshops.

In addition to serving the community as a library, La Puerta Abierta has been opening it's doors to the public as a genuine learning center. This month, we have been collaborating with Angelika Bauer who has been hosting a children's art work-shop at our center. German born Angelika has been living in Santiago for over twenty years and her paintings and drawings are celebrated in Guatemala and abroad.

Angelika hopes to inspire our students to explore creative art practices and has been teaching our students about abstract art and color combinations. Using oil pastels as their medium, local students have been revealing great artistic potential.

Shares 10 year old Maria, "I am having so much fun with art...maybe I'll be an artist like Angelika some day!"