#arts council

[lascitasdelashoras]

Alexander Calder - Arts Council 1962

#alexander calder #arts council #diseño

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The National Theatre has just announced it will ‘reduce activity’ over the next four years due to ‘financial challenges’. English National Opera is on its final year of funding. The BBC Singers have been abolished. Britten Sinfonia has launched a £1 million appeal to enable it to survive Arts Council cuts. A quarter of the seats in BBC orchestras are to be unwaged. Cities the size of Liverpool, Norwich and Southampton have been left without opera. The post-1945 English artistic renaissance has gone into abrupt reverse, without much political debate. Darkness descends. Discuss.

- Norman Lebrecht

The axe of cultural vandalism is in full swing against anything classical. The BBC is the biggest employer of musicians in the UK, and to lose one in five of their orchestral players will create a black hole for musicians already stymied by visa restrictions and thus wider opportunities traditionally afforded them. The end of the BBC Singers, in particular, is heartbreaking - founded nearly 100 years ago, they have given both comfort and joy to the nation. 

Photo: The BBC Singers.

#lebrecht #norman lebrecht #quote #arts #BBC #culture #britain #cuts in funding #funding of the arts #BBC singers #national theatre #britten sinfonia #arts council #BBC orchestras #decline and fall

[pigsproduction]

hello made a youtube video about how i made my first graphic novel and became a published author (almost) and got (a lot of) money

#art youtube #graphic novel #art industry #art career #arts council #art tutorial #art business #Youtube

[downthetubes]

Cartoon Capers a-plenty at the Waterside Arts Festival in July

There's cartoon craziness ahead at the Waterfield Arts Festival in Hythe, Kent, next month, with workshops and more co-ordinated by the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain

The Waterside Arts Festival is back in Hythe, Kent, next month – and a number of cartoonists are taking part. The Festival began back in 1994, inspired by the annual village festival in Mauves Sur Loire, the twin town of Hythe, and holds a special place in the hearts of local people. Now, a new generation of Waterside residents is bringing the festival back to life, with the support of Culture…

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#Achaz von Hardenberg #Arts Council #Cartoonists Club of Great Britain #Chris Williams #Creative People and Places #Culture in Common #Hythe #Ian Ellery #Music #Rich Nairn #Simon Chadwick #Sue Burleigh #Tim Harries #Waterside Arts Festival

[deanleivers]

‘Looking In, Looking Out’

‘Looking In, Looking Out’ is a participatory project of artist residencies teaching analogue photography & poetry on 9 school sites, using environmental-stimuli & based in a transparent dome. An innovation for students & residents with low cultural capital, interweaving science, art history, social science, literature & art. It’s a development of the first project (Dependent Origination Funded by Arts Council England) this project is an innovation that bridges formal wellbeing tools (mindfulness) with creative practice, led by two professional Artists; Akshay Sharma (AKA Mr Shay) and myself.

The project used different creative practices to enable students to explore and experience the strength within each one of them. It introduces and spotlights the importance of Recognising (what’s inside and outside ourselves), Recording (mentally or physically taking note) and Responding (taking action).

The workshops will be following the themes of:

- ‘Environmental observation’ (paying close attention to the visual landscape). This then leads into a photographic workshop with Dean using the analogue historical cyanotype process to create images using handmade treated paper, natural found objects and sunlight.

- ‘Environmental listening’ (paying close attention to the soundscape). This leads into a creative writing session with Shay, using sounds from the vicinity as a stimulus for writing poetry, with potential to practice performing it too.

Each participant will create one cyanotype image each and, either an individual poem or a collaborative group poem (dependent on age/ability of year group).

The countdown is now on as we land in our first partner school in just under two weeks time. More updates will follow as we work with the schools but for a more visual overview of the project see the video below.

#photography #community #community project #Arts Council England #Arts Council #Participatory Arts #spoken word #poetry #workshops

[ralphroether]

Post Mark Logo and branding. 40North Arts Council program.

#graphic design #ralph roether #typography #poster #ralphroether #arts council #40North #champaigncounty #supportlocalart

[gilesmdavis]

Amazing what exists on the internet

#audience #segmentation #arts #arts council

[amarcia]

And May The Force 

✨🌙   𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐋𝐎𝐆 ->  @404ama

#star wars #jedi order #jedi council #gffa #sw fanart #star wars fanart #sw prequels #master yoda #eeth koth #mace windu #luminara unduli #shaak ti #depa billaba #adi gallia #plo koon #kit fisto #sw art #jedi

[cupcakeslushie]

Three is making friends with the other Council Donnies.

Purple belongs to @red-rover-au and Two is @3lectricinsomnia and @teaableu

#rottmnt #separated au #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt separated au #rise donnie #separated council #my art #red rover au #emd au #this isn’t blatant tmnt au competition propaganda but I was imagining this taking place there

[mebssann]

Amity pestered Principal Bump enough times that he finally allowed Hexside to have a student council

#this was an excuse to draw Amity and Matt as President and Vice President student councils respectively #listen #Amity is obviously a responsible student and dedicated enough to make this happen that she was labeled as 'obssessed' #with making a student council ok #and Matt is canonically a great leader I WILL NOT TAKE CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM #the owl house #Amity Blight #Boscha #Luz Noceda #Willow Park #Gus Porter #Mattholomule #Lumity #fanart #digital art #my art

[osteochondraldefect]

fun fact the file name for this is "type of bitch to say ill give you something to have a panic attack about"

#ghosts art #ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #the council ultrakill #FUN FACT! THIS HAD MORE SERIOUS THOUGHTS BEHIND IT #i might expand upon that in the main blog rb

[naboosands]

AYE

(Part 2)

#happy saturday!! #here’s a kit WIP #kit fisto #kit fisto art #mace windu #jedi council #star wars #sw fanart #star wars the clone wars #tcw #tcw fanart #my art

[pastdaily]

Nora Ephron Looks At American Culture In 1974 - Past Daily Reference Room

Nora Ephron Looks At American Culture In 1974 – Past Daily Reference Room

Apparently, in 1974 American culture was heading down the river. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/where-is-american-culture-heading-1974.mp3 – National Town Meeting “Where is American Culture Heading?” August 21, 1974 – In 1974 there were grave doubts as to where we were heading as a cultural society. Although 1974 may seem like a banner year for the arts, compared to where we…

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#1970&039;s #1974 #Anti-Intellectual #Arts #Arts Council #Arts funding #Broadcast #Broadcasts #Capitol Hill #censorship #Corporate America #culture #Culture Wars #Democracy #Discussion #Fox News #History #Interviews #National Endowment for the Arts #NEA #Nixon #Nixon Era #Nora Ephron #NPR #Past Daily #Past Daily Reference Room #Popular Culture #Presidents

[aqspec]

THROW THAT BABY INTO THE SUN, I HATE IT SO MUCH ABORT THAT THING

i got physically ill drawing that first image because i had to draw the baby

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fandom #sth #sonic fanart #sonic fan art #sonic art #sonic the hedghog fanart #sonic the hedgehog fanart #sonic prime art #sonic prime fanart #sonic prime s2 #sonic prime season 2 #sonic prime #shadow fanart #shadow the hedgehog #tails nine #nine sonic prime #chaos council

[downthetubes]

Lakes International Comic Art Festival announces its first International Comics Rights Market for British publishers and creators 

Supported by the Arts Council and The Adlard Family Foundation, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced its first International Comics Rights Market

Supported by the Arts Council and The Adlard Family Foundation, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced its first International Comics Rights Market, bringing European and British comic publishers together to negotiate publishing rights to their comics with international counterparts across Europe.  This new Rights Market will also, unusually, feature opportunities for creators…

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#Arts Council #British Comics Now #Charlie Adlard #downthetubes News #International Rights Market #Julie Tait #Lakes International Comic Art Festival #Lakes International Comic Art Festival International Comics Rights Market #The Adlard Family Foundation #VIP Brands

[deanleivers]

Project Updates

The last six months have been busy with project work and various commissions the most exciting however was my work on the ‘Creative Communities’ project which was generously funded by The Mighty Creatives. This project was an opportunity to build on the foundations laid in my Arts Council England funded ‘Dependent Origination’ Project.

This form of the project is an innovation that bridges formal wellbeing tools (mindfulness) with creative practice, led by myself and poet/musician Akshay Sharma (AKA Mr Shay). We worked with all 360 students at Folville Junior School in Leicester (12 classes, years 3-6), the vast majority of which met at least one of the funders priority characteristics.

The project used different creative practices to enable students to explore and experience the strength within each one of them. It introduces and spotlights the importance of Recognising (what’s inside and outside of ourselves), Recording (mentally or physically taking note) and Responding (taking action).

Six classes in years 5 and 6 took part in 1 hour weekly mindfulness sessions following the .breathe curriculum (Developed by the Mindfulness in Schools project) over 4 weeks, integrating artistic processes and tools throughout in the form of drop in lunch time art workshops. These sessions were designed to be spaces where participants could “get away” from the busyness of the school day and take some quiet time for themselves to make art work (in this case illustrations) simply for the joy of creating a small piece of work.

We also worked with six classes in years 3 and 4 who took part in 30 minute weekly mindfulness sessions following the Paws B curriculum (also developed by the Mindfulness in Schools Project) over 12 weeks. They also had access to a half a day workshop in a transparent dome on the school grounds experiencing artist-led sessions which built on the ‘recognise, record, respond’ methodology. Sessions in the dome were made up of two parts: -‘Environmental observation’ (paying close attention to the visual landscape) leading to a photographic workshop with photographic artist Dean Leivers using the analogue historical cyanotype process to create images using handmade treated paper, natural found objects and sunlight -‘Environmental listening’ (paying close attention to the soundscape) leading into a creative writing session with creative writer and performer Akshay Sharma, using sounds from the vicinity as a stimulus for writing poetry.

The project also invited parents, carers, and neighbours to the school to see the children’s artwork and poetry on display in an after school sharing event which attracted over 200 visitors. A book was also created to act as a lasting memento for the school to house in its library for current and future staff and students to view and enjoy. A digital version of that booklet can be viewed online here.

The most rewarding highlights of this work have been seeing the pupils sharing their work (Cyanotypes and poems) with staff and parents/carers in the community sharing. Hearing them explain to parents the process and what they did during the workshops was wonderful and to witness parents actively engaging with not just their own child’s work but the work of other children was really pleasing. Getting to run a variety of my mindfulness curriculums with a range of ages has also given me a great insight into the ways that I can further integrate this into my art workshop delivery too, in order to create a workshop offer that covers all of the facets of my career and life interests and drawing from all of the skills I have to offer others.

The huge success from this project though has been the chance to use it as match funded activity to secure further funding from Arts Council England so that myself and Akshay can further develop the workshops and tour the project in eight schools located in Leicestershire and Derbyshire starting in early May. There’ll be more updates on the progress of that project over the next few months.

#photography #analogue photography #cyanotype #cyanotypes #poetry #School Project #Arts Council England #Arts Council #Participatory Arts #community project