We had a briefing from Matt, telling us about two opportunities to help run artist workshops - one with ELCAF in London, who wanted a two-day workshop for their festival, and one for ANORAK magazine, who had an upcoming promotional kids illustration festival called 'The Drawing Imaginarium', to be held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
After all the work I'd done as a Student ambassador and Thought bubble I knew immediately that they'd be up my street. I was really, really eager to get involved, and I had loads of ideas - but I also knew that it would probably be too big of a task to tackle on my own, given the size and scope of the workshops.
Luckily, after the briefing - Jessie Broad, Orlaith Conlon and Rosie Fairholm has stuck back in the studio. They were all really up for getting involved too, and were in the same boat as me - so we decided to club together and share the ideas we had!
Our initial idea was to create something like 'an Imagination station' - where kids could create their own creatures and monsters on a worksheet, then build them themselves out materials we could buy in.
We were all really eager to have this sort of 'dual system' workshop structure - but we thought that creatures and monsters (as well as being over-done) were quite complex, and we wanted it to have some sort of educational/real tangible base in what they were creating, so we decided to go with an aquarium as a more specific theme instead. We all drew tons of 'draft' worksheets (which you can see above) to decide which formats would be the best to use for them. We also made a facebook page, to correspond with each other and to post all of our ideas/progress on!
After the session - Jessie made a more concrete list, which we could use to organise where we needed to go next.
No comments:
Post a Comment