Shapes & contours

Atelier

As part of Printemps du Dessin, take part in a graphic composition workshop in the heart of Amiens Cathedral!

Formes aux crayons de couleur composées à partir de normographes

  • Saturday 29 April4 one-hour workshop sessions10am, 11am, 2.30pm and 3.30pm

  • 4 per childFree for accompanying adults

  • Family, from age 4

  • Registration required by email: edu.cathedrale@monuments-nationaux.fr

    Please specify the age of the children, the number of accompanying adults and a telephone number.

  • Accompanying adults are free to take part in the visit or to leave the registered child on his or her own. In this case, the children will be taken back to the ticket office-boutique at the end of the visit.

Shapes & Contours

As part of the Printemps du Dessin (Springtime for Drawing) event , join the whole family for a graphic composition workshop on Saturday 29 April at Amiens Cathedral!

Invited by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Eloïsa Pérez, graphic designer and typographer, is offering the"Formes & Contours" workshop for a creative and exploratory time for young people.

Equipped with normographs andposters to personalise, children are invited to discover the links between the alphabet and architecture as they follow a guided tour. Revisiting the emblematic shapes of the cathedral and its history at the same time, they experiment with the graphic potential of the monument. By constructing letters, combining colours and superimposing contours, they can create an abstract language worthy of a contemporary artist in no time at all!

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Poster "Shapes & contours" workshop as part of the Printemps du Dessin event

Eloïsa Pérez

Eloïsa Pérez, a graphic designer

Éloïsa Pérez is a graphic designer and typographer, a lecturer at the Haute école des arts du Rhin, and a doctoral student at the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ENSAD Nancy) and the École des hautes études en sciences de l'information et de la communication (CELSA, Sorbonne Université).A graduate of theÉcole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, Éloïsa Pérez works as a freelance designer in the fields of contemporary publishing. She also holds a master's degree in research, and since October 2016 has been preparing a doctorate in information and communication sciences and typography. Her thesis analyses the place of typography in the teaching of handwriting in nursery schools and is based on the development of the Prélettres scheme, designed to develop the graphic gesture in young children. This work benefits from partnerships with state nursery schools, through which the teaching tools developed are tested in educational workshops. The author of theoretical essays and articles, her research examines the role ofgraphic designin the transmission of knowledge, through the materiality of the teaching aids that accompany the practices.