Musea Kids

Intergenerational Creativity Proliferates

Everyday across the world children doodle, color, and create. This group of artists based out of California with a network stretching across the world is advocating for increased engagement within families to create art intergenerationally. Sharing these practices within a family helps pass on culture, connect, and grow.

The group, called Musea was founded by Shiloh Sophia, who has made her life’s work to catalyze creating art with an inner focus. This is what she calls “intentional creativity.” Her work stems from the finding that creating art with a set intention and sharing it with your community promotes healing.

Shiloh Sophia is working to extend this concept to children. Artists that she has trained in her methods are in turn sharing them with their children, and grandchildren. Mary Ann Salerno Padulo showed her granddaughter Shiloh’s technique of drawing a face in thirteen strokes.

Upon asking her granddaughter how she liked the picture she promptly drew a pig nose over the nose Padulo had drawn. Her dismay was quickly soothed when her granddaughter told her, “Art doesn’t have to be perfect Mema.” Artists are finding that in sharing their art they are not only benefitting the youth in their life but learning more about their own assumptions about creativity. Padulo reflected about the interaction, “How bright and how right she was. I try to remember this when I paint because when I try to be perfect it is painful not joyful.”

Artists Share Creativity with Young People in Their Life

Amanda Abreu works with her grandchildren practicing gratitude through art.

Susana Barquet paints with her nephew and reflects on creative moments her grandmother shared with her.

Jo Laurie invites new perspective into her painting.

Exploring all the facets of pink.