Learning through art is an initiative of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao that transforms classrooms into art workshops. The Museum’s Education Space is now presenting—and will continue to present throughout the summer—an exhibition featuring a selection of works created by more than 100 children aged 6 to 12 during the school year as part of this program.

Artists Alejandra Bueno, Ibon Garagarza, Zaloa Ipiña, Nerea Lekuona, Manu Muniategiandikoetxea, and Ibon Sáenz de Olazagoitia worked with schoolchildren to show how art can be liberating, how it can offer multiple points of view, and how creativity can be boundless. They used artistic processes to explore, understand, and transform the world around them, while taking imaginative views on the contents of the school curriculum and thus presenting them in a new light.

In twenty sessions distributed over the school year, the artists and the children invented worlds, drew maps of places that can’t be found on Google Maps, designed futuristic buildings, created moon-like spheres that seemed to stand still, and imagined worlds inhabited by unusual creatures.

Many of the materials used both in the projects and throughout the design of the show are recycled, reflecting the Museum’s commitment to sustainability.