Last week, I ran a series of Peace Painting workshops at Priory Witham Academy, organised by Paradigm Arts, who are funding the work.
I worked with Paradigm Arts last year for a series of after schools comics workshops for my illustration practice, and we are planning to launch the Peace Painting project in February at the Art & Design Conference at The Collection.
There was mention of my nemesis: an ACE grant proposal. See my other blog Artist As Carer to know why I can’t risk any more financial neglect.
See this blog for images and information about the week with Year 3.
Wishing you all a very peaceful Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
Since I returned from Norway, I’ve been busy earning some income in my non-art job, and had a meeting with Paradigm Arts, with whom I ran some after schools comics workshops last year in my work as an illustrator.
Next week we have arranged to run 3 funded Peace Painting workshops at Witham St. Hugh’s school.
I’ve been invited to speak at an Art and Design Conference run by Paradigm Arts in February to launch the Peace Painting project.
The conference is attended by teachers and schools wishing to collaborate for arts projects, and we have exciting and ambitious plans for the Peace Painting Project.
Everything is looking positive, and the funding paid for this will provide much-needed match funding for any arts council grant applications, along with the research trip, and it’s good to be supported for this.
Last week I embarked on the long awaited trip to Norway for Peace Painting.
I agreed to document the trip for my blog for the Norwegian Embassy, so I’ve split the trip into separate blog posts to post daily this week.
Here is Days 1-2 Mandag and Tirsdag
Then Onsdag
The Peace Painting workshops took place on Torsdag with some refugees from Afghanistan
Fredag was the journey home, another opportunity to take research images of the beautiful landscape!
I am very wary of now being asked to do more work, such as funding applications – I left the art world because I refuse to work on funding applications that will be 100% rejected, and I do not return gladly to accept slavery at all. So this means that IF I make the effort to put together a funding application (I would prefer to just ask for funding and be granted it), then it has to be granted, if not, the project won’t go ahead, and with so much fundraising going into war, I feel it’s far more important that projects like this are funded instead.
It’s been a while since I started this blog – I’ve had some trouble keeping updates on a-n, however, changing my email address may have helped!
Catrine had invited me to Nordland to visit for the Peace Painting Project. The trip is now scheduled for 31st October to 4th November, and is part funded by the Norwegian Embassy.
I merely asked them if they knew of any funding for arts travel, and it was agreed. No forms to fill in, just book the trip and send an invoice. If only everything else was that simple!
More info is in my own blog here.
