We stand for women empowerment to provide them with a motivating job and fair income for themselves to be independent and to grow. Our painters are not only painting for the financial part of the job, it also gives them the chance to unwind from their busy lives and to express their creativity. Painting can be healing--art and colors bring life!
Richmond VA artist, Linda Rubin, paints her Chichi. chichi-curacao.com/
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MAB: As an artist and art teacher I agree wholeheartedly! I understand you were born in Germany. How did you get started in art?
SJI: I am born into a creative and loving family of hardworking craftsmen and entrepreneurs in West Berlin, Germany. My family stimulated me to appreciate music, culture and art from a very young age. I am the eldest of three sisters and developed a passion for color and form--a passion that is easily recognized in my craftsmanship and artworks of today.
MAB: Well I am the eldest of girls, too! I think maybe we both are glad to have your Chichi as a Big Sister! So how did you learn your craft and how did your Chichi get born? And why did you move to Curaçao?
SJI: At a young age I started learning to cast molds from plaster, silicon and Knochenleim (bone glue) at the formative German Handwerk Fachschule at the Gipsformerei Staatliche Museen in Berlin. I continued my study at the Natur & Völkenkunde Museum of Berlin, taking part in a demanding and full time internship in order to become a restoration professional.
In 2001 I settled down in Curaçao, after I sailed, in a self-built 13-meter sail boat, for eight years from Germany to England, Portugal, the Canary Islands, Africa and the Cape Verdean Islands. I set sail for the Dutch Caribbean in 2001 and fell in love with the region's bright colors, multicultural atmosphere, and welcoming hospitality.
Settling down in a foreign country was not that easy and providing for a young family neither but I managed by having multiple jobs like cleaning boats, sales person, waitress and giving art classes.
During one of the art classes teaching the art of papier-mache, the very first Chichi was born, made from chicken wire, paper and glue.
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