Paper Playground is an artist-led paper workshop series designed to foster intuitive creative expression rooted in learning through playing created by APRL / April Capalungan.
Here, we explore boundless tactile play in reimagining how stories unfold into sculptural artwork. It is a space to revisit childlike wonder and innovate with paper’s interactive materiality, through cutting, folding, collage, and even tearing.
The Paper Playground workshop was grounded by a simple prompt: a reimagined dream home (and perhaps, in the process, reflected their own definition of belonging).
As always, it is exciting to learn from one another as we explored ways to tell a story and what paper can do. Some of them took inspiration from their childhood memories and connecting it to another wishful timeline. Some presented a playful take on sustainable energy and a simple drive-thru franchise. Others even took abstracted architecture to the next level.
The core philosophy of the Paper Playground is to foster intuitive creative expression. The brief collaboration / playdate with fellow educators reminded me that we are all storytellers.1
By reintroducing paper, and seeing it beyond as a mere material but rather as a communicative medium, the workshop encouraged these educators to unfold the stories they hope to tell, and bring back the creative tactile approach to their own classrooms.
publication from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila
publication from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila
publication from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila
Part of the Museum as Your Classroom at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) along with Anton Villaruel (Printmaker), Cathy Lasam-Ballo (ARTGuro Founder, Educator), May Lyn Cruz (Professor), and April Capalungan (a.k.a. APRL, Artist).
If you have any further questions about the workshop module, please feel free to contact hello@aprl.co
photos courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Manila and Tin Castañeda
