- I really like all types of art.

I'm a art fan.

(upbeat music) (playful music) - Take nine, mark.

(clapperboard clacks) - [Interviewer] How do you know when something is art?

- I don't know.

- I don't know.

- If it's like paper, it's art.

If it's like stone, it's still a little bit art.

- It, like, has colors instead of, like, just black and white.

- It makes me feel my heart beating fast.

- Beautiful makes my heart beat slow.

- Art is one of the ways (jazzy music) that people can convey how they're feeling to everyone without having to, like, tell them.

My name is Violetta, or sometimes I go by Vi.

I am nine years old, going on 10 in the summer.

This is a piece by Christi Belcourt.

It's about, like, our environment is near to collapse and that we have to take care of it.

(jazzy music) - I need to, like, squint at it to see like, what all the things are doing.

- It has a lot going on.

- Yeah.

It's up of, like, beads or, like, dots.

- Yeah.

- Wow.

That must have taken a long time.

- Yeah.

- [Violetta] It's done using a bunch of little dots to make a entire painting.

- [Abbie] I think what really is exciting about listening to kids talk about artwork is that they see it with fresh eyes.

So what do you like about this painting?

- That, like, somebody took the time to make every single little dot.

Like, every single dot has a purpose.

Each dot is good on its own, but together they make, like, one beautiful artwork.

- There's something really interesting about this piece.

When you look at, like, right in the middle... - The red-winged blackbird is guarding the line of symmetry.

- [Abbie] Yes, it is.

Wonderful.

(playful music) - A couple days ago at school I was learning about if, like, one side is the same as the other.

- Looks like it's almost symmetrical.

- Each side is pretty much the same, but there are some small differences.

Like, there's two milkweed blooms and then there's just one on that side.

Nature, it can't be perfectly symmetrical, but, like, it is somewhat symmetrical.

- I love that one.

- It looks like a jungle.

- Ooh.

That one, it seems like kind of like, it makes me like, appreciate, like, nature 'cause it looks like all the different plants and stuff.

- [Abbie] So do you know a little bit about the artist?

- Kind of.

I know she's Christi Belcourt.

I don't much, like, about her.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, she's a Native American artist that's here in our collection.

And she's definitely interested in the environment.

You nailed that one right on the head.

- I love the environment and being in nature.

I am some First Nation.

On my mom's side, we're mostly French and First Nation.

And this piece really symbolizes that like, nature isn't just something that, like, we can rebuild.

Like once it's gone, it's gone.

Like, it really speaks to me.

- [Abbie] Yeah?

(playful music continues) - Yeah.

- [Abbie] What else speaks to you about this piece?

- Every single place in the environment matters from the smallest birds to the biggest trees.

- [Abbie] Excellent.

- The art was good.

It makes me feel beautiful.

- Me too.

- Thanks, bye.