Our Mission
One’s Odyssey is an art gallery curated by the Delight Art Foundation team meant to display children’s thoughts and feelings about where they belong in their communities.
This gallery is the combined production of the Delight Art Foundation and Lumiere Art Studio. From using fabric as a medium to express their understandings of liberties (the Rights and Responsibilities Project) and creating character illustrations to represent their role in their families (the Family Project), the show puts viewers into the complex inner universe of children. Supporting the artist’s works will be an interactive background created by the Delight Art team, turning the gallery space into an intricate network of diverse personalities and opinions.
Featured projects:
The Build Our Town Project
The Build Our Town Project is a joint effort by Claire Song and the Delight Art artists. Each cell of this enormous biological network, making up the working body of a plant, represent each child’s dream home and personality. Together, all these homes come together to form a community, just as a group of plant cells would work together as a community in order to keep the plant alive.
The Family Project
This project focuses on “family” as the most fundamental unit of society.
Students were asked to draw their families and given the option to turn family members into character illustrations based on things they love — such as favorite places, activities, foods, and colors. While students were encouraged to incorporate these elements into their design, they also had the freedom to express themselves more intuitively depending on their age and experience.
The Friends Project
Outside of home, children spend the most time at school — often with friends. To them, school is their community. Like the Family Project, students illustrated their friend groups, but this time the brainstorming focused on exploring similarities and differences between themselves and their peers. The goal was to help students reflect their identity within a peer group. While some were able to explore these ideas in depth, others expressed their thoughts more instinctively — and that’s perfectly fine. Each student’s artwork still carries personal insight, conscious or not.
The Rights and Responsibilities Project
Though the title seemed intimidating at first, this project seemed to grow on the students. It introduces a very basic concept: “If I have the right to _____, then I have the responsibility to _____” or “If I want to _____, I must _____”.
Student visualized these statements through fabric illustrations, sewing and embroidering with textiles rather than pencils and paint. This unique format encourages concentration, creativity, and the ability to communicate ideas clearly through design.
