Art has always occupied an essential place in the trajectory of be.Living. And especially this year, as we celebrate 25 years of existence, it has become the central theme for revisiting the past, living in the present, and imagining the future of a story that has been unfolding, with love and dedication, over time.

Not by chance. Art, as explained by Cláudia Mariuzzo, arts consultant at our school, is a language that transcends explanations and linear records, reaching what is experienced internally. “It not only records facts, but translates experiences, sensations, memories, and ways of feeling the world. By choosing art as a way to celebrate this milestone, be.Living recognizes that this is the language that can reveal, with such sensitivity, what children think, imagine, invent, and feel about their experiences at school,” says the consultant.

In this special year, the Early Childhood Education and Elementary School Arts Exhibition took place together. The decision to combine the two exhibitions arose from the desire to create a space for dialogue between different stages of childhood covered by the school curriculum. Bringing together works by children of different ages revealed common paths, broadened perspectives, and strengthened an integrated view of the artistic experience. “We wanted to show how art runs through the entire curriculum, from preschool to elementary school, as a living practice, regardless of age group,” said Cláudia. For children, this approach means realizing that all expressions belong to the same creative universe. For educators, it was an opportunity to share processes, refine intentions, and develop even broader pedagogical listening skills. For the exhibition, this union brought poetic, visual, and conceptual enrichment, in addition to expanding the exchange between families. 

The educator explains that throughout the year, each group developed its own projects, guided by the central theme “Once Upon a Time – Once upon a time…”. Based on listening to the interests of the children, four research groups were created: “Body” (Yellow Orange and Year 1); “Abstractions” (Green and Year 3); “Color, shape, and volume” (Red, Year 2, and Year 4); and “Memories” (Blue and Year 5). The works shown in the exhibition arose from experimentation, observation, dialogue, choice of materials, and constant revisiting of the artists’ own productions. For Cláudia, the starting point for her creations has always been “thought in motion,” the discoveries and expressive powers that emerge from artistic creation.

The proposal to invite each child to look at the history of the school through their own perception brought out profound aspects of memory and imagination. Cláudia says that many memories came up spontaneously in the stories the children tell about school, about their games, the people, and the moments that mark their daily lives. Imagination has expanded these memories, transforming them into hybrid narratives, where reality and invention walk side by side. The children created their works not as something static, but as something alive. Movement, color, humor, poetry, and a multiplicity of materials helped to reinvent and redefine the past.

This movement is very present in the conception of art as a living practice, a central idea in the work carried out at the school. At be.Living, we seek to value the process, shifting the focus from the final product to what happens while the art is in action: the gesture that becomes a line, the curiosity that drives new attempts, the conversations that arise during creation, the question that opens unexpected paths. We guarantee this experience by offering time, space, and diversity of languages, without rushing to reach a “final result.” The product exists, of course, but it is the result of a journey, never just the goal,” says the art consultant.

As we celebrate 25 years, we also celebrate the stories that make up be.Living. Stories written by children, educators, families, and generations who have passed through here and left marks that remain alive in everyday learning and have contributed to building the school we are today. “This exhibition invited us to recognize that school is made up of many intertwined lives,” Cláudia notes. 

This year’s Arts Exhibition allowed everyone who attended to realize that art is not only found on walls or in exhibited works, but also in the way children see the world and honor their own narratives. For Claudinha, this was the most important message: “Ultimately, we are made up of stories: those we have lived, those we tell, and those we will invent together.”

Thus, this year’s art exhibition was more than just an exhibition. It was a collective gesture of creation and recording of memory, imagination, and the future. An invitation to celebrate school through the eyes of children, and, together with them, reinvent the next chapters of this story that remains alive, vibrant, and constantly evolving.
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Watch the video and revisit some moments from the event.