Arts & Crafts Week
July 27th - 1st August, 2008
Co-ordinator,Anthea Summers
Tutors, Kirti Mandir, Anthea Summers and others t.b.c.
Pictures from Arts & Crafts Week in 2007- Click here for Arts Week pictures
Our move to Dumfries & Galloway has taken us to an area rich in visual artists and crafts people - and Barons Craig, with the Rockcliffe Gallery, gives us a very special setting. We are currently investigating ways of working with local artists.
The theme for this year is still under consideration. Please use the following description from last year for a guide to likely activity.
The Art and Craft Week is a new kind of residential summer activity.
So what is it that makes this week different and special?
The answer is that it will be an intensive, action packed week, offering a wide range of arts activities. And at the heart of the week’s programme will be a project where all the participants and tutors will work together, using all the media at our disposal to make a permanent art work.
Who is this week for?
The project is open to all ages and abilities.
It will be sociable, stimulating and fun. An opportunity to learn new skills and experiment with new techniques using paint, drawing, clay, raku glazes, photography, felting wool, wood, batik and more besides. We will draw on techniques and traditions from a range of cultures and continents all over the world. Participants will be able to choose to work in a selection of media and techniques or to focus on one. It’s up to each person to make their own choices.
What will be the theme of the project?
The theme of the project work will be migration.
How this gets made into a finished artwork is entirely up to all the people taking part. Since the beginning of time people have been on the move; travelling and re-locating over small and huge distances for all kinds of reasons, sometimes of their own choosing, sometimes not. And the end result of all this migrating has shaped the world we live in and is continuing to shape it beyond measure. Talk to anyone for a little while and they will have a travel story to tell, so everyone will have a contribution to make to our project.
So how will participants spend their time at Glaisnock?
Morning sessions will be spent working on the main project. In the afternoons people will be able to continue working on the main project, or spend some time on their own individual work, or take time to explore the beautiful surroundings of Glaisnock. In the evenings there will be a chance to join in the Art Week Choir led by Bára. The art room will be open for people who want to use it or of course people can socialise in the social areas around the house. On the Wednesday evening there will be a very special social event when we will gather together outside to fire our ceramic work in kilns which we will build ourselves. Alongside this firing there will be a ‘hands on’ opportunity to experience the ancient Japanese art of raku glazing ceramics.
Who are the tutor team?
Our project will bring together a unique team of tutors who are all highly skilled professional artists. Between them they have lots of experience of working with all sorts of people in all sorts of locations both teaching and working on community projects to make public art works. The tutor team share their own personal experiences of migration. Three of them live in different countries than where they were born, four of them will be travelling to the Glaisnock from outside the UK.
Registration is on Sunday afternoon. In the evening there will be a 'Welcome Session' a relaxed event and a chance to get to know your tutors and familiarise yourself with the facilities of Glaisnock.
Classes start at 9.15 on Monday morning and finish on Friday afternoon. There will be a concert on Thursday evening when staff and students will perform. There will be a programme of evening activities and various social activities throughout the week.
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