There is a future
Collaboration for Independence Day between the creative platform Sunseed Art and the Kharkiv children's studio Aza Nizi Maza
Kharkiv. Every day the city suffers from shelling. People are hiding in bomb shelters. But one of these bomb shelters is not ordinary, it is inhabited by unusual worlds, talented artists and a whirlpool of new ideas!
This is the Aza Nizi Maza studio.
Aza Nizi Maza is a children's art studio that has been operating in Kharkiv since 2012. It combines several areas: an art studio for painting, graphics and sculpture, and a lecture theatre. It is also an inclusive place where children with autism and Down syndrome are seen and developed. In the winter of 2022, this school became a bomb shelter for civilians. Also in the first months of the invasion, the school's students and teachers went down into the Kharkiv metro, which then became home to many citizens, where students and teachers therapeutically painted canvases together with other children for more than a month, which later decorated the Kharkiv subway.
Now the school continues its work in the bomb shelter studio and their resilience and talent have already inspired many Ukrainian and foreign publications to publish their stories (The Guardian, Bird in Flight, Printmag, etc.)
Since the first days of the invasion, we at Sunseed Art have been telling people in Ukraine and around the world about our artists and our culture, spreading Ukrainian culture and thus supporting our artists and Ukraine's cultural diplomacy.
For the Independence Day, we decided to make a unique collaboration with the Kharkiv children's studio Aza Nizi Masa, because we see the incredible talent and resilience of these young artists who express their unique world in absolutely incredible works that we want to spread and talk about them
