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TITLE: Jardin de Ninos
ARTIST: Kim Emerson
LOCATION: Tijuana, Baja California
DESCRIPTION: Beginning in March of 1991 Kim Emerson started volunteering every weekend for internationally acclaimed artist/architect James Hubbell building a kindergarten school for an impoverished colonia in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The school is called “Jardin de Ninos”, which means garden of hope. The project was sponsored and developed by The Americas Foundation, Fundacion de las Americas. For over two years Kim launched her career as a public artist building with rebar, cement, and creating mosaics on interior and exterior walls of the school along side Hubbell and numerous volunteers. Designed by Hubbell, the style of architecture is “organic” in nature allowing the form and function to flow with curvilinear lines and sweeping images of color and light. Thematically, the project embodies the idea that “beauty can transcend borders"
CONTRIBUTOR: Kim Emerson - San Diego, CA, USA |
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