The Genesis of "Munny 500" - Custom Toy Show in Germany

Besides working as a visual artist, a private school had asked Manuel Heischel AKA CikCuk to take a lectureship for art at "adam olearius schule", for which he is currently involved in this year.

Working with 5th grade students, they are introduced to a new art form: "Art Toys", with Kidrobot Munnys sponsored by a toy store from Germany, Think Pink Celle. WIPs of their work are shown here, and as well more HERE on FB. The finished pieces will be exhibited (tentatively scheduled) in June - the show will be called MUNNY 500 - with one of the partners of the school a bank called Volks und Raifeisen Bank.

"so far we finished the basic undercoating with spraypaint from auto-K, real spraypaint for cars and they give a really cool texture, effect and layering of colors if you mix them up. the kids chose them by their own and based the colors on their concept of the each custom. the theme is totally free, some choose super heroes, animals, action, horror, like what they wanted to do. I kept it open just to let it flow and to let them explore the new media." -shared Manuel Heischel.

"MUNNY: is based on the introduction by me and the drawing process based on the printed out Munny pattern you find in the net. That was the starting point for the kids to define their custom design.

500: its a play, 5 for the grade 5. and 00 for b ( second letter = double 0/00) so in the end 500= 5b :).

Furthermore the whole exhibition is a charity for the kids and the school to collect money, 50% for the 5b and 50% for the school so we can do another custom show next school year, and our plan is to raise 500€. = MUNNY 500. We have 18 kids plus myself (I will support a custom too). We chose a bank to hold the exhibition to get the charity attraction into the right place."-added Manuel Heischel @ www.cik-cuk.com.