Art Alongside
Art Alongside is a Visual Arts Programme Funded by Wexford County Council and the Arts Council.
Aim:
Art Alongside aims to provide a dynamic and relevant experience of the Visual Arts to children and adults of County Wexford. It also aims to establish a formal structure through which professional artists can be paid as professionals to work in an educational/community context, while maintaining their own practice as artists.
Ethos:
1. The inherent creativity of each individual is central to the philosophy of the project. The project is process orientated in order that each person is enabled to express this creativity in her/his own way.
2. The project recognises the importance of skills building, so that a broad language for creative expression is developed.
3. The project believes that schools and rural communities should have access to the work of national and international artists and arts organisations.Without a countywide structure many of these groups and communities would have little or none.
Objectives:
1. To bring quality educational art projects into County Wexford schools and provide children with a thoroughly creative and enjoyable experience, while building a range of visual skills.
2. To create access countywide to the work of professional artists through the annual exhibition, which is attended by a wide range of community groups, as well as school children and their parents.
3. To maintain the process of evaluation through the dialogue between the two project artists, and between the artists, teachers and pupils involved in the project.
Description of the 2010/2011 Art Alongside Project, Children get Choosy with IMMA
Art Alongside will continue to work in partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art National Programme for this project.
For the projects this year, the Art Alongside artists will work with participating groups, on the theme of Children get Choosy with IMMA.
Each class will be shown a CD of high quality reproductions created especially for the project by the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The children will be facilitated in looking carefully at each of these reproductions and will make their choice.
The classroom art projects will then be based on their understanding of and responses to their chosen piece of work. The children will work in a variety of different media, e.g. painting, drawing, photography, textiles ans weaving, clay, construction and papier mache, etc.
Timescale
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The projects will commence during the week beginning 13th September 2010 and continue for 19 weeks, ending 4th March, 2011.
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The project artist will work for 2 - 2.5 hours per week in each of the particiapting classes.
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A County-wide exhibition of selected works for all particiapting groups will be held in March 2011 at the Wexford Arts Centre, alongside work of the project artists and work selected by he participating children from the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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Exhibtions of all participants work will be held in schools after the Easter break.
Age Range
The project is designed primarily for 5th and 6th class but can be adapted to include younger children in schools where they are in combined classes with 5th and 6th.
