“Jardin de Ninos” 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…”
