Devenir Workshops

Participatory workshops exploring storytelling, material transformation, and collaborative making through hands-on practice.

The Young Artists’ Studio

A hands-on art experience where kids turn everyday and reclaimed materials into imaginative stories, characters, and worlds.

Through playful making, children explore storytelling, collaboration, and creative problem-solving while developing projects from concept to final presentation. Along the way, they document their process with photos, reflect on their ideas, and discover how simple materials can be transformed into something meaningful.

These workshops encourage experimentation, teamwork, and imaginative thinking as participants bring their ideas to life through building, making, revising, and working together.

Kids will explore:

• Creative storytelling through art
• Hands-on making with reclaimed materials
• Photography and visual documentation
• Project development from concept to completion
• Teamwork, communication, and collaboration
• Imagination, experimentation, and creative exploration

Perfect for curious kids who love to make, build, invent, and create with others.

The Young Artists’ Studio Formats

Each format explores storytelling, material transformation, and collaborative making through a different mode of creative exploration.

  • Participants select a favorite character, scene, or story and translate it into a life-size sculptural form using reclaimed cardboard and found materials.

    The figures are worn, staged, photographed, and sometimes presented through temporary exhibitions or collaborative installations.

    The workshops encourage storytelling, collaboration, and imaginative problem-solving through hands-on making.

  • Hands-on sculpture workshops using reclaimed materials such as cardboard, flower nets, packaging materials, and production scraps. Participants cut, layer, wrap, build, and assemble forms while experimenting with shape, structure, and composition.

    The workshops encourage observation, problem-solving, and creative exploration through the process of making.

  • Hands-on collage workshops using reclaimed newspapers, magazines, books, labels, and paper ephemera. Participants layer, cut, combine, and rearrange materials to create new images, compositions, and visual narratives.

    The workshops encourage observation, experimentation, and intuitive image-making.

Participant Reflections

Valery

As a parent who values art and hands-on experiences for my children, I found this project thoughtful, inventive, and deeply engaging. My kids learned how to plan a project, prepare a photo shoot, and host an art exhibit at home for friends and neighbors.

The experience also gave us a beautiful way to capture their favorite book, beloved characters, and memories from this stage of childhood. Caro guided not only a collaborative creative project, but also a meaningful time capsule for our family.

Parent

Aelle

it was nice to have an experience with the whole family, Caro was really supportive, she helped identify things around the house we could recycle and and if we made a mistake she would help us. Over all it was a really fun experience!

Young Artist, age 9

Additional Information

  • Carolina Fontoura Alzaga is an artist whose long-term sculptural practice explores transformation through reclaimed materials, light, and large-scale form. Through Facaro studio, she has developed internationally commissioned lighting sculptures alongside participatory workshops and material-based practices centered on creative reuse, experimentation, and collective making.

    Her work has been exhibited and collected internationally and featured in publications including American Craft and the Los Angeles Times.

  • Available formats include:

    • Single-day workshops
    • Multi-day workshop series
    • School and institutional collaborations
    • Private group workshops

    Workshops can be developed for schools, museums, libraries, youth organizations, and community spaces.

  • Workshops incorporate photography, staged environments, process documentation, or collaborative exhibition formats that allow participants to share and reflect on their work.

  • Programs are adaptable for schools, libraries, museums, youth organizations, community spaces, and private groups.

    Workshops are best suited for ages 6–13, with flexibility depending on format and setting.

Bring a workshop to your community!

Devenir Workshops are developed in dialogue with schools, museums, libraries, youth organizations, community spaces, and private groups.

For workshop inquiries or institutional collaborations, please get in touch.