We’re back on the blog train here in Creative Learning. This week’s post will focus on giving you an update on our ARTIST ROOMS Young People’s Projects.
As part of our learning programme, McManus Youth Action Group (YAG) have been inspired by the recent exhibition ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner and developed their own creative learning project. The group have worked with text generation, language and screen printing to create text-based work, and this is being further developed for an Artists Book publication, created in partnership with Dundee Print Collective.
I learned how to look at an artwork differently and describe it in a whole new way.
I learnt new skills like screen printing and speaking more about my art.
We welcomed The Wednesday Writers back to the museum for their ARTIST ROOM creative learning project with the team. The Wednesday Writers are a group of creative writers who have a learning and/or a physical disability and are supported by the NHS Tayside Occupational Health team. The group explored ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner through creative writing and created a series of creative writing work that was shared through a creative writing recital with the public and museum staff in February. The Wednesday Writers work will also be presented in the Artist Book publication, created by Dundee Print Collective. Both groups will be celebrating their project work with family and friends later on in March.
I’m really proud of myself.
Refreshing to have different people to work with, it’s good for creativity.
I learnt a lot about the artist and the text [work]. [I] found it very interesting and a good opportunity to work with McManus staff.
As well as working with the two goups above, we have developed and delivered three school sessions that have explored ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner with secondary pupils from the High School of Dundee and Craigie High School. Both classes had a talk and tour with the team that discussed the artist, his work and ideas, before creating their own text-based art works inspired by the exhibition and the art concepts of Lawrence Weiner. These were then taken back to school, with the final idea to think about where in their school each pupil would install them; creating an ‘art-intervention’ similar to that created by Lawrence Weiner for the museum.
I liked the creative part (collage) the most.
I learned that multiple things can be art.
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