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Wellbeing Paint with Acrylics Workshops published their Delivery Report!1 year ago
By King Street Arts (Lancaster) CIC
We want to deliver free art workshops in community settings for people with little or no art experience. Providing relaxed sessions that encourage creative freedom and promote the benefits of play.
Our aim is to provide accessible opportunities to build identity through self-expression for people in the heart of our local communities where there is a traditionally low take up of the creative arts. We want to be able to offer free art sessions in Lancaster by working closely with existing community groups. We’ll provide 8 taught workshops, for 2 groups of 8 participants, targeted at people with little or no previous experience of painting. The first 5 sessions will develop basic painting skills using playful approaches to working with paint, brush and colour. Freedom of expression will be encouraged as each participant explores picture making. After session 5 participants will take away an art kit that will allow them to practice independently for 3 weeks. There’ll be an optional 1-2-1 mentor session during the middle week. We’ll then resume for 3 more taught sessions to complete artworks, and plan for an exhibition in a public space that showcases work from both groups.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
We offer a nonjudgmental playful way for participants to develop confidence & experience the fun & pleasure of playing with paint. Group activities are beneficial for wellbeing and mental health; while painting in a group we experience learning with and from each other, as well as the tutor. Fully supported by tutor and assistant each participant is guided on their creative journey. Part of the offer is to provide takeaway paint, brushes, and paper: we feel it valuable for each participant to have the chance to paint independently and enjoy the sense of freedom & wellbeing that can bring. Mentor time will be available to avoid feeling isolated. Working towards an exhibition is important and validating. It will be an opportunity for the groups to meet and see each other’s work and share their experience of the project. A previous painting student said, ‘This has opened up a whole new world of creativity possibilities for me which is having a very positive impact on my mental wellbeing.’
Steps to get it done:
To support this project we have had conversation with Chris Englefield of The Men's Hub in Lancaster and Guy Christiansen of Lancashire Youth Challenge and both support the idea of our project and will help with recruitment for the workshops. Free exhibition opportunities exist at The Cornerstone in Lancaster and The Thomas Storey Room at The Storey are both possible free exhibition locations we have used before.
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We had a celebration tonight in Lancaster library where members from the two separate painting groups from the Wellbeing Painting with Acrylics workshops came together for the first time. It was great for everyone to see each others work and talk about their experience and how much they enjoyed the opportunity and what they have been capable of achieving. Thanks again to you all for helping to make it happen. It would be great if you would be able to see the exhibition if you haven't already. The library is open 9 - 5pm daily and closed Sunday and Monday 28th April is the last day. If you do visit it would be great to have any feedback, you can email Roy at [email protected].
Today we have installed the the exhibition of completed work from the Wellbeing Project in Lancaster Library. We have called the exhibition Colour and Form and we hope some of you can get in to see the work that wouldn't exist without the support you gave to the project. We at King Street Arts and all the participants want to thankyou for making it possible and for bringing extra layers of creativity into peoples lives that otherwise wouldn't have had the chance to see what they could be capable of. Many Thanks. The exhibition runs 11th to 29th April and can be seen during the libraries opening times of 8 - 5pm Mon to Sat 7pm Wed
It's seems a long time now since the Crowdfund campaign ended, We haven't been idle, Last year we worked with various charities, visited many meeting sessions to discuss and share information and answer questions about the workshops we had planned. We delivered some taster workshops and by the end of December we had two groups of enthusiastic volunteers recruited and ready to start. So we are pleased to report that our wellbeing painting workshops got off to a good start in January. There are two groups; one where we are working with teenagers and one working with adults. A new year and a new start. Nearly at the halfway point, the 10 week program of workshops and activities will culminate in an exhibition of art selected from work created during the taught and untaught sessions. We have been working with skill and technique development and we will soon be handing out art materials; and with our support and encouragement the two groups will have the opportunity to work undirected at home to develop some for their own ideas. We will offer drop in sessions if they need support during the home working phase before coming back into the final run of group workshops. We will keep you updated and we really appreciate everyone's contribution into making this happen.
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VolunteerKing Street Arts (Lancaster) CIC (KSA) is an arts organisation based in Lancaster. Its city centre building is home to artist studios, a small gallery, and workshop space; but our work reaches far beyond these walls. The organisation has been established for seven years and a CIC since November 2022, but only trading as such from 31st March 2023. KSA focuses on the visual arts to offer a range of services to local communities interested in exploring the value of arts in everyday life. The organisations two founders and directors, Roy Smith and Kath McDonald, are both artists and hold the belief, through their own lived experience, that engaging with creativity has the capability to transform lives in a positive and health-giving way. Our mission is to ensure that the opportunities we create are high quality, accessible and as equitable to our communities as we can possibly make them; both in our home base at 5a King Street and other locations in and around Lancaster.
Our strap line: Connect Share Create, sums up our mission: we want to connect people with creativity, connect people with art opportunities, connect people with the experience of art: making, seeing, showing and sharing, connect with the health and sense of wellbeing that can come from engaging with creative activity, both as spectator and as a participant. We want to share art and creativity with people, to offer the opportunity to see and engage with art at many levels, bring people together to share experiences and skills and create the opportunities to learn from each other both through seeing and doing. We want to create opportunities for people to create their own art, to encourage artists to grow their art practice, to allow space for creative conversations. Everything we do leaves some kind of trace in the world: if we create with intention that trace will say something about us as an individual but also something about humanity and our connection to the world.
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The workshops we offer have a focus on developing, through creativity, a connection with ourselves and the world around us. A playful and exploratory approach helps to build and develop skills and an understanding of the materials and processes of art making.
And our Associate Artist Group creates the opportunity for artists to come together for peer-to-peer support with professional and exhibition opportunities as part of the programme of activities we co-ordinate for the group.
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