The Art Department of IES Ruiz de Alda of San Javier

We All Art | Art and Health is an Erasmus+ project launched by the Art Department of IES Ruiz de Alda of San Javier, a small town in Southeast Spain. Three other European schools have joined this project: from Bulgaria, Croatia and Latvia. Their common concern is to promote healthy school and social environments, places that promote physical and emotional well-being. This search for our students' well-being has art as hub for the all the activities promoted in the project: from the initiatives to arise awareness about health, to the artworks that can transform the schools and local communities into healthier places to live and learn.
The aims of the project is to create materials and resources open for other schools and organizations, as well as artworks able to transform our schools. Students, taking part in the project, met in Spain, Croatia, Bulgaria and Latvia in order to share experience of learning in their respective schools and environments, to get training by various experts (therapists, social workers etc.) and finally to participate in art workshops tackling issues of social and group inclusion, cultural differences, frailness of life, importance of health in the society and other questions related to public health and well-being. Artworks created during the workshops as well as the methodology behind them has been collected and discussed on the Twinspace forums.
The four partner schools are: IES Ruiz de Alda (San Javier, Spain), SU za HNI "Konstantin Preslavski" (Varna, Bulgaria), Škola likovnih umjetnosti (Split, Croatia) and Mālpils novada vidusskola (Mālpils Latvia).