Young Plymouth Arts Centre are a group of young practitioners who I am heavily involved with. Our work would be described as Community Art and we love getting people involved in art that wouldn’t normally get the chance or even think about doing it. We achieve this by running projects which include workshops and outreach programmes. We worked with Helen Pritchard, as our mentor on this project and it really helped us achieve what we wanted.
The Traveling School of Art was a project we got funding to do from the Transformation Fund. It was an extremely successful project which consisted of Lessons, events, an exhibition and a published book. We took our workshops out into the community by setting them up in public places, such as Plymouth Hoe (the water front, by the lighthouse), this was a banner, utility belt and badge making workshop. We got loads of interest, from groups of teenagers, to OAP’s, to families who all sat with us had a picnic, did some sewing and talked about Art.
Our main event happened because of our exhibition opportunity. We were asked to commission a piece of work about our project for an exhibition called Ambulation at Plymouth Arts Centre. Our piece was called ‘START HERE’ and was made up of a plastic water tight container full of things a traveling teacher would need, such as a compass and notebook ect. Alongside this there was a map we designed which lead the viewer, with cryptic clues through a walk around the city to all the locations we had held workshops and those places that only Plymouthians would know about.
Our main event happened because of our exhibition opportunity. We were asked to commission a piece of work about our project for an exhibition called Ambulation at Plymouth Arts Centre. Our piece was called ‘START HERE’ and was made up of a plastic water tight container full of things a traveling teacher would need, such as a compass and notebook ect. Alongside this there was a map we designed which lead the viewer, with cryptic clues through a walk around the city to all the locations we had held workshops and those places that only Plymouthians would know about.
