Little Stories of Great Women Artists is an original project of playful and educational animated videos for children from the age of 7 and older.

The objective of each episode? To shed light on the life and work of a woman artist in a three-minutes video. Imagined by screenwriter Sophie Caron, each story conveys the originality of an artist’s approach, their importance within an artistic movement, certain significant biographical stories, as well as difficulties that the artist may have encountered in her practice.

In this episode, we head out to the French countryside to meet sculptor Marinette Cueco.

Born in 1934 in Argentat, Corrèze, Marinette Cueco has been sculpting since the 1970s. Her works, which range from monumental pieces to small assemblages, use materials that come mainly from the natural world, such as plants and minerals.

Everything begins with a long walk for this artist. Each season, she gathers fragments of nature that catch her eye. Raised in the countryside during World War II, she learned the skills of peasant culture early on, based on economy and memory, and inherited her mother’s skills: sewing, crocheting, weaving, embroidering, unraveling, and re-knitting.