As one of its objectives NADFAS aims to inspire young
people with lasting enthusiasm for the arts and an awareness of our
arts heritage and its conservation. To achieve this NADFAS encourages
member societies to promote high quality visual arts activities for
young people.
How are societies involved with Young Arts?
Societies work in two ways to provide opportunities for the young
to gain practical experience of the arts.
Many support Young Arts Groups - junior societies with members aged
8 to 18, where groups run a programme of arts events throughout the
year. Others arrange Young Arts Projects - arts related activities
for an individual or a number of young people organised or sponsored
by Societies.
Young Arts have teamed up with Church Recorders for an exciting new
project. Church
Trails for Children offers young people the opportunity to explore
churches in their area and learn that there is more than meets the
eye in many of these buildings!
Please contact the Area Young Arts Representative on e-mail for
more information.
Young Arts Report 2010 from Larraine Boardman
East Surrey Young Arts has continued to be busy with many exciting and varied projects, which are about to take place or are nearing completion. Congratulations to Cheam for their project with Nonsuch High School for Girls and for their write up in the latest edition of NADFAS Review. This will I hope encourage other YA reps to keep submitting articles and pictures to NADFAS Review.
Lovelace completed their project with The Rayleigh School of a wall mounted mosaic which may be seen in the photos below. I, Lyn Slade and members of Lovelace committee attended a delightful afternoon at the Rayleigh School for the unveiling of the wall mosaic and were also treated to a tour of the school.
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Leatherhead has donated money for a digital camera at the Queen Elizabeth Foundation and is looking to see how else they might support them. Chipstead are continuing with their successful Young Arts Group at St. Anne’s Primary school while Epsom have been involved with a recycling project with Epsom Primary school. I know other societies are doing great work with many of their projects just beginning or in the discussion stage.
In the summer East and West Surrey Areas of NADFAS were delighted to be in partnership with the Surrey Hills Society for the Celebrating Surrey Festival at Loseley Park. Leading up to the Festival, young people aged 5 to 16 were invited to submit a photographic image celebrating the special nature of the Surrey Hills and we are very grateful to the experienced panel from Dorking Camera Club for their help in judging the entries. The standard was extremely good with many "Highly Commended". The three winning photographs were: ‘Old Tree with Bluebells’ (Anna Craddock (5); ‘Newlands Corner’ (Jessica Nunn (14); and ‘Peace at Waverley’ (Richard Mortimer (12).
We have several societies doing Church Trails and can I remind them if they need any help we are lucky to have Liz Miekle in our area and who is on the NADFAS Church Trail Team.
It is also encouraging to see two societies banding together to support an art project for children who are visiting their parents in prison.
Summary of Projects 2010
Society |
Project |
Age Range |
Cost |
Ashtead |
2 graffiti artists to help Ashtead Youth Club paint 3 wall murals |
15-17 yrs |
£350 |
Betchworth |
(i)Celebrating Surrey Festival
(ii)Edwardian project at Weydon School Farnham to make 4 corsets of which 2 for the National Trust at Polesden Lacy Edwardian Costumes |
0-18 |
(i)£100 donated
(ii) £250 |
Bookham |
A montage of the Schools Values Polesden Lacey First School |
6-9 |
£300 |
Cheam |
Project with Sutton Education Business partnership at Nonsuch High School an artist in residence to make plaques on Identity. |
Secondary |
£300 |
Cobham & Oxshott |
Church Trail for St Mary’s Stoke D’Abernon |
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Chipstead |
(i)On going youth art group at St Anne’s Primary School Banstead
(ii) Chipstead Flower show }YActivities
(iii) Banstead village day } Lucky dip |
- 6-12
5and upwards |
- i) £200
- ii) £20
- iii) £20
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Dorking |
Book plate competition. Books given to primary schools in the area |
Secondary
Primary |
£500 (2 year project) |
Epsom |
10th Anniversary Outdoor Project |
Primary |
£300 |
Horsley |
Indian Art at St Mathew’s School Downside
Project at Clandon School to be arranged |
Primary |
i) £250 |
Leatherhead |
SLR Digital camera and tripod for Art Department at Queen Elizabeth Foundation Brain Rehabilitation unit |
8-25 |
£545 |
Limpsfield |
Pottery workshop with visiting artist
Church trail St. Peter’s Tandridge |
14-15yrs
8-12yrs |
£787
£70 |
Lovelace |
Two mosaic wall panels at Raleigh School
Church Trail at St Martin’s Church E.Horsley |
primary |
£3468.47 (£191 raffles+ donations +£750 Patricia Fey fund ) |
Reigate |
Preparing Church Trail for St Mark’s Reigate |
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Walton on the Hill |
Sponsoring a music post graduate in Musical theatre |
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£500 |
Chipstead +Walton on the Hill |
Collaboration to fund art projects at Downs Visitors Centre for children visiting parents in High Down and Downview prison |
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Chipstead £150
Walton on the Hill £50 |
New Young Arts Group for East Surrey Area Nadfas
In January 2010 Chipstead DFAS became involved with starting the
YA Group at St. Anne’s Primary School, Banstead. The YA group
with help from members of Chipstead DFAS has begun with a flourish.
The YA Group organiser has arranged for an art teacher to come into
St. Anne’s School once a week to teach the children various
different art techniques. It has been a very successful start and
much enjoyed by all the participating young people.
BFree Café, Leatherhead – Cubist
Portraits
In May 2009 Leatherhead Decorative and Fine Arts Society sponsored
a Young Arts project at the Leatherhead Youth Café. The Café is
a drop-in-after-school centre for young people aged between 11-16
years. Leatherhead DFAS funded a series of self portraits with a
cubist theme using mixed media techniques. This was achieved in three
afternoon workshops under the tutelage of visual artist Sadie James.
The
young people who took part were very enthusiastic and enjoyed an
element of art work that might not be available to them in school.
As the workshops progressed other youngsters who had been sceptical
about joining the group were intrigued to watch the daily progress.
The
finished portraits have all been framed and hang on the wall in the
BFree Café centre. The cubist style portrait project
funded by Leatherhead DFAS was the launch for Xpress Creative Arts
who are running other art projects at the BFree Youth Café. http://www.lyp-cafe.com
THE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS EXHIBITION - May 2008
Stephen Rawlings painted a triptych of himself, his father and
his grandfather for his A level art portfolio whilst a pupil
at The Howard of Effingham School in Surrey. This was seen at
a Mole Valley NADFAS Young Arts Exhibition at Denbies in 2006
and subsequently chosen to be hung at the Mall Galleries in London
in May 2008, with other A level art exhibits, during the annual
exhibition of The Royal Society of British Artists. The original
painting of 3 portraits was too big for the Exhibition purposes
and Stephen agreed to have just one portrait framed and hung
- that of his Grandfather. Stephen is currently completing a
foundation course in art at The Chelsea School of Art.
Liz Meikle (YAAR) |
Family, Grandad |
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